Biography

Mathilde Touvier is Director of Research at Inserm, and Principal Investigator of the NutriNet-Santé cohort. She is a graduate of AgroParisTech and holds a doctorate in epidemiology and public health. After six years at the Agence française de sécurité sanitaire de l'alimentation, de l'environnement et du travail (Anses) and one year as a visiting researcher at Imperial College London, she joined the EREN Nutritional Epidemiology Research Team (U1153 Inserm / Inrae / Cnam / Université Sorbonne Paris Nord), which she will head in 2019. She coordinates research on the links between nutrition and health (e.g. principal investigator of an ERC Consolidator Grant 2020-2025 on industrial food, additives, food processes and health), with over three hundred and twenty-five publications in this field. She is an expert for several institutions, including the French National Cancer Institute (INCa), the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research (France 2030 steering committee), and the international Global Burden of Disease network. She is a member of the Scientific Council of the International Agency for Research on Cancer (WHO-ICRC). She was awarded the Inserm Research Prize in 2019 and a Bettencourt Schueller Foundation prize in 2021. She has just been appointed Professor of Public Health at the Collège de France in the 2022-2023 annual chair.

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