de March Lab 

Claire A. de March, Ph.D.
 

Assistant professor CNRS, Chargée de recherche CNRS

Institute of Chemistry of the Natural Substances

University Paris Saclay

Department of Analytical and Structural Chemistry and Biology

ICSN profile

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I started my career by training in flavor science and industry at the ISIPCA in Versailles and an industry experience as a sensory analyst in the Bel group. Attracted by understanding the mechanisms involved in the sense of smell, I decided to reorient toward academic research in 2012. I got my Ph.D. in 2015 in computational chemistry at Université Côte d’Azur (FR) where I investigated the molecular mechanisms involved in odorant receptor recognition of odorant molecules thanks to molecular modeling protocols. In 2016, I joined the Matsunami lab at Duke University (NC, USA) to continue studying how odorant receptors are used to trigger an odor percept but on the bench side. In spring 2022, I obtained a permanent position as a CNRS Assistant professor and joined in December 2022 the Department of Analytical and Structural Chemistry and Biology at the Institute of Chemistry of Natural Substances.