Matthieu Leobold

Matthieu took his first steps in science studying biotechnology, cell and molecular biology at the University of Strasbourg. His first research experience was in the context of a technical training in environmental microbiology for a program of analysis and decontamination of underground aquatic environments. This experience oriented his career towards a master's degree in microorganism biology in Strasbourg, during which he studied, among other things, the metabolism and biological clock of a single-celled green algae. He then received his PhD in biology from the University of Tours, thanks to his studies on the domestication of an endosymbiotic virus in the parasitoid wasp Venturia canescens. Parallel to his thesis, he obtained a prize from the Fédération de Recherche en Infectiologie  (FéRI) that allowed him to carry out and finance a transversal project with the aim of evaluating the opportunities offered by the use of endosymbiotic viruses in gene therapy approaches. After a break in the world of teaching, he was hired as a postdoctoral researcher in a project of biological control of vine pests. He currently works as an interim assistant professor at the Institut de Recherche en Biologie des Insectes (IRBI) and at the University of Tours in France.