Anthony FARDET
INRA - UMR1019, Unit of Human Nutrition
Clermont-Ferrand/Theix Research Center
63122 Saint-Genès Champanelle
FRANCE
Date of birth: 30th of June 1969
Single, no children
Tel: +33(0)4-73-62-47-04
Fax: +33(0)4-73-62-47-55
E-mail : anthony.fardet@clermont.inra.fr
Education & Degrees
Professional experiences
Fields of expertise: preventive and holistic nutrition; health potential of plant products and their bioactive compounds (e.g. antioxidants, lipotropes, vitamins, minerals, polyphenols, phytosterols, complex carbohydrates and fibre) and physiological/metabolic mechanisms involved; grain products and their digestive and metabolic fate; writing of scientific articles; database management and regular updates; scientific monitoring; statistical analyses
Member of ANSES (French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health & Safety) as expert in Human nutrition for the mandate 2012-2015
Member of the Editorial Board of Food and Nutrition Science, Researches in Health and Nutrition journals, Journal of Nutritional Health and Food Engineering & Advances in Nutrition and Food technology
Member of the transversal INRA Cereal sector (coordinator of the Processing, health potential and consumer group), French Society of Nutrition (SFN), Société Francophone Vitamines & Biofacteurs (SFVB) and French Seed Biology Network
Peer-reviewer for 35 journals (mean impact factor: 2.5)
Languages: French (native tongue), English (oral: almost fluent; writting: good - scientific), German (notions)
Scientific animation & vulgarization:
Animation of a stand at Exposcience 2014, Clermont-Ferrand and of a debate about nutrition with students
Animation of a scientific debate following the film projection “La santé dans l’assiette” at Capitole cinema, Clermont-Ferrand
Animation of a one-hour health and nutrition workshop in Saint-Genes-Champanelle Primary school (6-11 years old) on the 10 of December, 2013
Coordination and edition of a collective book at the interface of Food Science and Human Nutrition INRA departments involving 56 scientists (Publishers: QUAE Editions)
Writting papers for journals dedicated to different types of readers (scientific community, large public including physicians and students)
Presentation of various courses for university students (first and second year, Master and PhD)
Discussion of nutritional science with bakers, very young pupils, university students and general public during various scientific meetings and manifestations (e.g. Salon International de l’Agriculture 2013)
Writing of 14 definitions for a book dedicated to bread (Robert Laffont Editor)
Organisation of a one-day scientific meeting at INRA Nantes between French and Dutch PhD students (Wageningen University, The Netherlands, 1997)
Prices
Cereals & Europe Spring Meeting (Montpellier, May 2-4 2007): Price from Puratos Society for the best oral presentation: Whole-grain and refined wheat flours show distinct metabolic profiles in rats as assessed by a 1H NMR-based metabonomic approach
French Concours Général in Biology (June 1987): First place at the national level: Discuss the gene notion
French Baccalauréat (“A”Level) in Biology (July 1987): Mention “Très-bien” (with High Honours)
Interests & Activities
Music (pop & rock, world & celt, rock & folk, electronic), photography (INRA ADAS photo club), reading (historic, science fiction and police novels, biographies & philosophy) and general information. I also enjoy travelling and encountering people of different culture (countries or cities visited are Spain, Portugal, Greece, Germany, The Netherlands, Congo-Brazzaville, Japan, Albuquerque, Minneapolis, New-York, London, Brussels, Budapest, Vienna, Lisbon and London). I like animals very much, especially felines (but I hate cockroaches: sorry!)