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2015-now Professor: University of Montpellier, UMR DIADE.

Research thematics: “Gene regulatory networks controlling root development, branching and stress resistance in rice”

- since 2015: Leader of the team "Cereal Root Systems" (CERES)

- since 2015: Deputy Director of the Research Unit DIADE

- since 2015: Responsive of the Master Degree "Tropical Crop Breeding and Biotechnology" of the University of Montpellier

- 2015-2023: Deputy Director of the Doctorate School GAIA of University of Montpellier, responsive of the specialty "Biologie Integrative, Diversite et Amelioration des Plantes"

- 2020-2023: appointed member of the French National Council of Universities (CNU 66, Physiologie)

- 2019-2023: Part time key researcher of the Centre of the Region Hana for Biotechnological and Agricultural Research of  University Palacky Olomouc, Czech Republic, to contribute to the European Regional Development Fund project "Plants as a tool for sustainable global development" (No. CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/16_019/0000827) to promote rice to barley translational research.

- 2015 to 2021: member of the directory board and coordinnator for University of Montpellier in the French Consortium USTH

- 2015 to 2021: Responsive of the first year of the Master Degree "Biotechnology/Pharmacology" of the University of Science and Technology of Hanoi.

-sept 2009 to sept 2016 : Associate Editor for BMC Plant Biology.

2011-2014 Professor: University Montpellier 2, UMR DIADE, detached in the Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement" to work in Vietnam

Research thematics: “Gene regulatory networks controlling root development and stress resistance in rice”

-Director of the International Joint Laboratory "Rice Functionnal Genomics and Plant Biotechnology" in the Agricultural Genetics Institute of Hanoi

-Director of the Department and of the Master degree "Biotechnology/Pharmacology" of the University of Science and Technology of Hanoi.

2004-2010 Professor: University Montpellier 2, UMR DAP.

Research thematics: “Gene regulatory networks controlling root development and stress resistance in rice”

- 2008-2010:  Leader of the Team « Adaptive Development of Rice »

- june 2009-2010: Coordinator of the Department "Biotechnology/Pharmacology" of the University of Science and Technology of Hanoi, a Vietnam-French initiative.

- sept. 2008 - sept. 2010: Coordinator for the French-Brazilian/Agropolis International-EMBRAPA initiative CIBA : International Consortium of Advanced Biology

- sept. 2009- sept. 2010: Director of the Master degree, Montpellier 2 University: "Tropical Crops Biotechnology"

- sept. 2005-sept.2007: Director of the Master degree, Montpellier 2 University: "Genetics, genomics and advanced technologies for plant sciences"

1994-2004 Assistant Professor in the Research Unit EA 2106 “Plant Biocompounds and Biotechnology”, Tours University

Research thematic: “functional characterization of transcription factors regulating the terpenic indole alkaloids biosynthesis pathway in Catharanthus roseus”

- 2002-2004: Director of the Research Unit Associated to INRA (Tours University, INRA Orléans) "transcription factors and metabolic ingeeniring in plants"

1992-1994 Post-Doc: Plant Biochemistry and Physiology Laboratory, ENSAM-INRA, Montpellier

Research thematic: "Molecular Characterization of plasmalemma proteins in Nicotiana tabacum induced by floral induction and auxin”.

1988-1992 PhD: University of Paris XI

Research thematic: “Characterization of Anp a regulatory gene of the anthocyanin pathway linked to the anthracnose resistance gene Mex2 in Phaseolus vulgaris”.