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GERALD THOUAND

Professor in Microbiology, Nantes University http://scholar.google.com/citations?sortby=pubdate&hl=en&user=KRgoFJMAAAAJ&view_op=list_works
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Gérald Thouand, 61 years, knight of the French academic palms, is a university professor in microbiology, Exceptional Class at Nantes University (Technological Institute of La Roche sur Yon). In 2008, he was auditor at the Institute For Higher Studies on Sciences and Technologies (Promotion Gerard Megie, IHEST, Paris) and served from 2009 to 2018 as Deputy Regional Delegate for Research and Technology of Pays de la Loire. Since 2019, he has been Expert in public innovation policy at the Pays de la Loire Region. He led a research team within the UMR CNRS GEPEA (Environmental and Food Process Engineering) for 24 years. His research activities are oriented towards microbial engineering at the interface of microbiology, analytical physics and data processing. He develops new concepts and methods to measure biodegradation, to identify pollutants and their effects by biosensors or by the use of spectroscopic methods in the food industry in order to monitor microbiological quality. All of the activities are nourished by applied research but also by technological innovations in order to best meet industrial and societal needs. He was president of the International Society for Bioluminescence and Chemiluminescence from 2018-2022, editor for two international journals, Environmental Science and Pollution Research (ESPR, Springer), and Sensors. He has produced 11 patents or software and published about 300 national or international communications.


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