Mathilde Touvier

Dr Mathilde Touvier is a Research Professor (DR1) at the French National Institute for Health and Medical Research (Inserm), principal investigator of the NutriNet-Santé cohort. She graduated from AgroParisTech in Human Nutrition in 2002 and obtained a PhD in Epidemiology and Public Health in 2006. After six years at the French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health & Safety (ANSES) and one year as a visiting researcher at Imperial College London, she joined the Nutritional Epidemiology Research Team CRESS-EREN (U1153 Inserm / Inrae / Cnam / Université Sorbonne Paris Nord / Université Paris Cité), of which she became Director in 2019. She coordinates research on the links between nutrition and health (e.g. PI of a European Research Council ERC Consolidator Grant 2020-2025 on the impact of industrial food, food additives and food processing on health), with >480 publications in this field (Web of Science: H Index=84, > 62,400 citations, 39 "Highly Cited Papers"). She co-developed the front-of-pack logo Nutri-Score. She is expert in several workshops, e.g. at the French National Cancer Institute (INCa), the Ministry of Higher Education and Research (France 2030 ambassador), the international network Global Burden of Disease, and she is member of the Scientific Council of the International Agency for Research on Cancer (WHO-IARC). She received the Inserm Research Prize in 2019 and a prize from the Bettencourt-Schueller Foundation in 2021. She has been appointed Professor at the College de France in Public Health for 2023. She received the ERC Public Engagement with Research Award in 2024.