Benedicte Jacquemin

Dr. Bénédicte Jacquemin has a degree in Medicine from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (2000), a Master in Environmental Sciences from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain (2005) and a PhD in Life and Health Sciences from the University Pompeu Fabra of Barcelona, Spain (2007). She did a postdoc (2007-2009) at the Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale (INSERM), in the Respiratory and Environmental Epidemiology team in Villejuif, France. In October 2009 she became a researcher in the same institution. From September 2011 till July 2018, she was located in the center of Research in Environmental Epidemiology (CREAL) -now ISGlobal Campus Mar- in Barcelona. In August 2018, she went back to France and joined the Research Institute for Environmental and Occupational Health (INSERM-U1085), and is affiliated to Team #9: Exposure Assessment and Epidemiological Research on Environment, Reproduction and Development. During her medical career she became interested in research and participated in several studies mainly in the field of infectious diseases. Later, during her doctorate, she worked in the assessment of exposure of air pollution and its effects on respiratory health. She currently works in the study of the effects of environmental pollution on asthma and rhinitis and their associated features. More recently, she has been interested in the effects of air pollution on other health outcomes including cognition, cancer and fertility / infertility. She has published more than 70 papers in peer-reviewed journal, she had led or is leading 5 projects (funded by National French and Spanish agencies) and is a partner in several other projects (European and National). Furthermore, she is an elected member of the European council of the ISEE and she co-chaired the scientific committee of the ISEE young investigators conference in Munich 2018. She is also interested in translating her research and to do so she is an expert member of several scientific committees or working groups and participates in many pop-science events and interviews.