Olivier Panaud

Olivier Panaud is a professor at the University of Perpignan and PI at the Joint Research Unit “Genome and Plant Development” (UPVD/CNRS). He was a senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France (2015-2020). His research field is evolutionary genomics in plants. His research focuses on the study of transposable elements and their impact on the structure, function, and evolution of genomes.

He obtained his PhD from Paris XI University (Orsay) in 2012 for research conducted at the International Rice Research Institute in the Philippines. He then completed two postdoctoral fellowships, the first at Cornell University in the United States from 1992 to 1995, and the second at Paris XI University (Orsay) from 1995 to 1997, when he obtained a position as Associate Professor at Pierre and Marie Curie University (Paris VI). Since 2003, he has been a full professor at UPVD.

Olivier Panaud is the author or co-author of 85 publications and four book chapters (H-index of 43). He served as Vice-President for Research at UPVD from 2008 to 2012 and as Vice-President of the Academic Council of the Languedoc-Roussillon COMUE from 2017 to 2020