Journal of Biodiversity & Endangered Species

Joel Fleurence

Joel Fleurence
Professor of Marine Biology and Biochemistry
University de Nantes, France

Biography

Joel Fleurence, PhD, is Professor of Marine Biology and Biochemistry at Nantes University. He is one of two Directors of the Research Laboratory “Sea, Health, Molecules”. He is member of the University National Council since 2007 and was elected Vice-President of the section “Biology of organisms” since 2011. He is a senior scientist and an international expert on the seaweeds valorisation. In 1985, he began his research career in the pharmaceutical industry in the French Company Roussel-Uclaf. In 1990, he was recruited by the Institute of Valorisation of Seaweeds (CEVA, Brittany, France) to lead researches about the chemical composition and nutritional properties of macroalgae. Professor Fleurence has participated in the establishment of the French regulation on marine algae used as sea vegetables. In 1994, he arrives as head of laboratory “Proteins and Quality” at IFREMER (Research French Organism for the Sea Exploitation) and develops research on the nutritional properties of seaweed protein for use in human or animal food. Since 2002, he is Professor at the University of Nantes and conducts research on the development of seaweed (macroalgae and microalgae) and more specifically on their pigments.

Research Interest

Marine Biotechnologies - Valorization of seaweeds and microalgae