Born 1980/01/23
Nationality: French
In couple – 2 children
Mathilde Touvier, MSc, PhD, HDR
Candidate à la CSS6
Current position
Researcher (CR1 INSERM) in Nutritional Epidemiology
Coordinator of the Nutrition and Cancer Axis, Co-investigator of the NutriNet-Santé cohort study
Sorbonne Paris Cité Epidemiology and Statistics Research Center (CRESS)
Nutritional Epidemiology Research Team (EREN), U1153 INSERM / U1125 Inra / Cnam / Paris 5, 7 and 13 Universities
Education
HDR (Habilitation to supervise research) (2014)
PhD in Epidemiology, Medical Faculty of Nancy (2003-2006)
M.Sc. in Epidemiology and Public Health, Medical Faculty of Nancy (2002-2003)
AgroParisTech, M.Sc. in Human nutrition (1999-2002)
Math-Sup/Math-Spé Bio “Classes préparatoires aux grandes écoles” (1997-1999)
Baccalaureate diploma in mathematics, awarded with Upper Honors (1997)
Previous positions
INSERM U1153 - EREN (2010-current position): Researcher (CR1 Inserm)
Imperial College London, UK - Faculty of Medicine, School of Public Health (2010): Post-doctoral researcher
INSERM U1153 - EREN (2008-2009): Post-doctoral researcher
ANSES (French National Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health & Safety) (CDI-permanent position) and
(half-time) INSERM U1018 -Team 9 (2002-2008): Epidemiologist
University of Davis, California USA - Department of Nutrition, (2001): Graduate intern
Areas of expertise
Epidemiology, Nutrition, Cancer, Metabolomics for nutritional epidemiology, Biomarkers, E-epidemiology, web-cohorts, Dietary
supplements, Vitamin D, polyphenols, micronutrients, Public health
Publications
114 publications in international peer-reviewed journals + 22 submitted (H-index=24)
99 posters / 102 oral communications in Congresses or Seminars (among which 28 invited conferences) / 14 scientific
reports / 18 chapters in books or didactic publications / 6 Press Release
Research responsibilities
Co-investigator of the NutriNet-Santé cohort study
Member of the Board of Directors of the French Nutrition Society (SFN) since 2015
Member of the Steering committee the CRESS (Sorbonne Paris Cité Epidemiology and Statistics Research Center)
Expert for public institutions: ANSES (since 2012), INCa (since 2012), WHO-IARC (since 2015)
PI of projects in the field of nutritional epidemiology (INCa SHSESP 2014, INCa Deprev 2014, IRESP 2011, Canceropole Ile
de France “Emergence” 2015, Fondation de France “Public health and environment call” 2015, etc.)
Direction (since 2008) of 5 PhD, 3 Post-doc, 10 Master students
Laureate of the Research Prize of the French Nutrition Society SFN, 2013
Regular expertize of research projects for national and international institutions (for FNRS-Belgium, Switzerland
National Research Programme, ITMO Cancer, Université Libre de Bruxelles, etc.)
Teaching responsibilities
Lessons/lectures in Master 1 et 2, Sorbonne Paris Cité and AgroParisTech
Responsible of one teaching Unit in the Master 2 “Nutrition and Public health” Paris 13 University
Adhérente au SNCS depuis mon recrutement à l’Inserm en 2010, je partage ses
valeurs, et souhaite les porter en m’impliquant activement dans la CSS6, pour
contribuer ainsi à défendre notre recherche publique dans le domaine de la santé.