Research

The demands of Research

EIGHT PLATFORMS AND LABORATORIES HOST THE EXPERIMENTAL AND RESEARCH WORK OF RESEARCH PROFESSORS AND PhD STUDENTS.

Almost all PURPAN’s research professors are involved in research, development and consulting activities, using their skills to meet the demands of professionals. At PURPAN, our applied research enables our research professors to integrate the needs of the professional world and the development of innovation into their teaching methods, ensuring that you are well prepared for the realities of the business world.

PURPAN Engineering School has a reception team that permanently hosts around twenty PhD students in the various research units in which our research professors work.
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Scientific advisory board

The members

Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board:

• Olivier Simonin – Professor at Toulouse INP

Appointed members:    

• Alain Baniel – R&D Manager Ingredia
• Michel Bidegain – Director of Agriculture, Agri-food and Fisheries at the Communauté d’agglomération Pays Basque
• Alain-Michel Boudet – Emeritus Professor of Biology at Paul Sabatier University
• Jean-Louis Cazaubon – Farmer (Hautes-Pyrénées), Vice-President of the Occitanie Region
• Frédérique Chaucheyras-Durand – Research Director, Lallemand Animal Nutrition
• Marc Deconchat – INRAE Research Director
• Bernard Dumas – Microbial Interactions in Rhizosphere and Roots team (RHIZO) – Director LRSV
• Thierry Gauquelin – Emeritus Professor at the Mediterranean Institute of Biodiversity and Marine and Continental Ecology (IMBE) Aix Marseille University, CNRS, IRD, Avignon University
• Antoine Gaset – Emeritus Professor – research professor at Toulouse INP
• Gérard Jugie – Honorary Chairman – Emeritus Research Director at CNRS – Former Director of the Paul-Emile Victor French Polar Institute
• Bernard Nicolardot – Professor, Institut Agro Dijon, UMR – Agroecology
• Pauline Peltier-Pain – R&D Director Lesaffre-Phileo
• Hervé Penan – University Professor. Director, TSM
• Vincent Petiard – Co-founder, Nature Source Genetics Inc (Ithaca, NY, USA), Member of the French Academy of Agriculture, Former Director of the Nestlé Tours R&D Center (Plant Sciences)
• Jean-Pierre Poulain – Professor of Sociology at UT2J
• Michel Roustan – Emeritus Professor at INSA

Ex-officio members:       

• Patrick Cazeneuve – Chairman of Toulouse Tech Transfer
• Jean Daydé – Deputy Director of Research and Director of the Lamothe site, PURPAN Engineering School
• DGER represented by Jean-Marc Bertrand or Pascale Gueriaux or Mireille le Maguet
• Pierre-Benoît Joly – President of the INRAe Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées Center
• Eric Latgé – General Director, PURPAN Engineering School
• Michaël Mourez – Deputy General Manager and Director of Innovation, PURPAN Engineering School
• Charly Poulliat – Vice-President, Research and Transfer, INP Toulouse
• Frédéric Violleau – Director of Research, PURPAN Engineering School

Permanent guests:   

• Alexis Annes – Head of the Human, Economic and Social Sciences Department, PURPAN Engineering School
• Antoine Brin – Head of the Environmental and Digital Sciences Department, PURPAN Engineering School
• Jean Brustel – Representative of PhD students supervised at PURPAN
• Céline Domange – Head of the Animal Sciences and Livestock Systems Department, PURPAN Engineering School
• Hervé Guillou – Director of the UMR TOXALIM
• Laurent Hazard – Director, UMR AGIR
• Alban Jacques – Head of the Plant Sciences and Agronomy Department, PURPAN Engineering School
• Marielle Pages – Head of the Agri-food and Nutrition Sciences Department, PURPAN Engineering School
• Céline Peltier – Director of Education and Research, PURPAN Engineering School
• Michaël Pouzenc – Director of the UMR LISST
• Aude Vialatte – Director of the UMR DYNAFOR