Team Lead & Prinicpal Investigator
Currently Head of the Metabolomics and Lipidomics Platform and Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Biology and Medicine, University of Lausanne, Switzerland, I joined UNIL in 2015 following postdoctoral training at the Center for Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry, The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California (led by Prof. Gary Siuzdak). I received my PhD in Chemical Biology from Aix-Marseille University, France, in 2011.
My team’s R&D work focuses on developing new analytical solutions to improve polar and lipid metabolite annotation and quantification, in parallel with their application to human population and clinical intervention studies. Our main goal is to advance knowledge of the molecular mechanisms that define and maintain cardiometabolic health with (reproductive) ageing. To this end, we are engaged in metabolic phenotyping of the adult population through several longitudinal cohorts and clinical intervention studies. These studies are conducted in collaboration with clinicians and data scientists. These R&D efforts directly support the Platform’s service activities, where we implement the developed high-coverage and selective methodologies for high-throughput data acquisition and analysis. During the last five years, we have supported, with our services, more than 130 research groups across academic institutions in Switzerland and beyond.
I currently serve as President of the Swiss Metabolomics Society, together with Prof. Pablo Sinues from UNIBAS/UKKB, and as a member of the Editorial Board of Metabolomics, the official journal of the International Metabolomics Society. I am also a member of the Metabolomics Working Group within the International Federation of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (IFCC), and the Clinical Lipidomics Interest Group within the International Lipidomics Society. Since 2023, I have also served on the Scientific Committee of the private clinic La Prairie (Montreux, Switzerland).
At UNIL, I teach a metabolomics tutorial for PhD students (with Prof. Aurelien Thomas, CURLM) and a Master’s course in the Metabolism and Human Health track (with Dr. Hector Gallart Ayala), in addition to occasional international short courses in metabolomics and lipidomics (MSACL, EU School of Metabolomics, EMBL, and summer schools).