Didier Dupont

Dr. Didier DUPONT is a Senior Scientist at INRAE leading the “Bioactivity & Nutrition” group in Rennes that is actively working on the relationships between the structure of food, their digestion in the gastrointestinal tract and the bioavailability of bioactives and nutrients. To reach this goal he has developed in vitro static and dynamic models and has performed in vivo experiments on animal (pig and piglets) and human. Didier DUPONT is the scientific coordinator of INFOGEST, an international network of more than 250 research institutions gathering 715 experts on food digestion from 56 countries (2011-present). He is the main organizer of the International Conference on Food Digestion. He is also the scientific coordinator of the French research infrastructure CALIS on Food, Consumer and Health that gathers 14 platforms in France. Didier DUPONT acts as an expert for evaluating scientific proposals in France, Spain, Italy, Canada, Ireland, Israel, The Netherlands, Poland and Serbia and for assessing new COST Actions. He is a member of the scientific council of several French organizations. He has written 182 peer-reviewed articles and 21 book chapters, has coordinated a book on “Structure and nutritional effects of food”, given 90 international conferences (60 invited) and is a member of the editorial board of Future Foods and Frontiers in Nutrition.