Annick Mercenier

Annick joined NutriLeads in February 2018.

After a postdoctoral position at the ETH of Zurich, Annick started her career in industry at French biotechnology company, Transgène S.A., where she worked for 14 years. After this, she set up the Department of Microbiology of Ecosystems at the Institut Pasteur de Lille.

In 2002, Annick took a Group Leader position in the Nutrition and Health Department at the Nestlé Research Center in Lausanne, Switzerland. She was successively in charge of the Functional Microbiology, Allergy and Host-Microbe Interaction groups, and built and led the Gut Ecosystem department before retiring from Nestlé in January 2018.

Annick obtained her PhD in at the Université Libre de Bruxelles. She is co-inventor of more than 50 patents and authored more than 100 peer-reviewed scientific publications.