Luc Penicaud PhD

Dr. Luc Penicaud, PhD is an Director of GIS Genotoul at CNRS. Earlier, Dr. Pénicaud held a CNRS position in the Laboratory of Nutrition at the University of Paris VI as a team leader. He earned his PhD. from the University of Paris VI and VII, and completed postdoctoral studies at the University of Rochester NY, USA; the University Medical Center, Geneva, Switzerland, and the Nutrition Center, Paris. He is now 2010 the Director of the Center for the Study of Taste and Feeding Behavior in Dijon, a Centre of over 220 members affiliated with CNRS, INRA, and the University of Burgundy. He is the recipient of several awards for his research in neurobiology, energy homeostasis, and associated pathologies such as diabetes and obesity. Dr. Penicaud is a member of several international societies such as the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD), the American Diabetes Association ADA), the European Association for the Study of Obesity (EASO), and the European and International Society of Neuroscience. Dr. Pénicaud is a member of different boards: among which President of the scientific committee on Physiology at the CNRS, the Scientific Council at the Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), the Scientific Council of the Nutrition department at the same Institute, a commission of the National Program on Diabetes. Dr. Pénicaud is the author of over 200 scientific articles and publications and is regularly invited as a speaker in national and international meetings.