Thierry Heulin

Thierry Heulin is a research director at the CNRS. He holds a PhD in engineering from the École Nationale Supérieure Agronomique et des Industries Alimentaires (ENSAIA) in Nancy (1983) and an Habilitation to Direct Research from the University of Nancy 1 (1991). He has a bronze medal of the CNRS (1990).

He was Director of the UMR 7265 BVME "Plant Biology and Environmental Microbiology" (CEA/CNRS/Aix-Marseille II) from 2003 to 2011. He was Director of the Institute of Environmental Biology and Biotechnology (iBEB-CEA-DSV, Cadarache) from 2007 to 2016. He was an appointed member of CoNRS Section 29 (2012-16). He was a member of the Scientific Council of the iNEE-CNRS (2015-2018), and President of the CS de France Génomique (2012-2017).

He has been interested in the ecology of nitrogen-fixing bacteria and is currently working on exopolysaccharide-producing bacteria in the rhizosphere of cultivated plants (diversity, taxonomy, physiology, genetics). He has published about 100 publications on about ten rhizospheric bacterial species with plant growth promoting properties. He is co-author of 3 patents, two of which are exploited.

He is currently Director of FR ECCOREV (Continental Ecosystem and Environmental Risks), Chairman of the CS of Labex DRIIHM, member of several other scientific councils (Lascaux, CESAB-FRB, Labex DRIIHM), member representing the CEA at the CPS of the AllEnvi Alliance, member of the Standing Group of Experts at GPRADE (ASN), member of the International Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) of AnaEE-F and the International Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) of France Génomique.

He is co-author of 93 articles published in international journals (Google Scholar: h-index : 43 with 4950 citations).