Marc Besson

I am currently a Lecturer at Sorbonne Université (France), where my research and teaching activities are primarily focused on marine ecotoxicology using integrative, experimental and automated approaches. From 2020 to 2022, I was a Research Associate at the School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol, where I investigated the impacts of multiple stressors on the resilience of aquatic ecosystems using laboratory systems, gantries, AI, and experimental arenas. From 2018 to 2020, I was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the IAEA Environment Laboratories (Monaco), where I studied the effects of microplastics on fish ecophysiology, behavior and histology, using radio-nuclear techniques. In 2018, I was awarded the Young Research Prize from the Bettencourt-Schueller Foundation, for my work and research project examining the impacts of anthropogenic stressors on larval fish sensory development and survival via endocrine disruption. I did my PhD (2014 – 2017) at CRIOBE, PSL Research University (French Polynesia) on the metamorphosis of coral reef fishes, its inner molecular mechanisms, sensorial and ecological importance, and sensitivity to stressors. My PhD was also conducted within the Institut de Génomique Fonctionnelle (Lyon, France) and the OOB (Banyuls-sur-Mer, France), with a fellowship from the ENSL (Lyon, France).