Laurent MESSONNIER

Biography

His PhD thesis, prepared under the supervision of Professor Jean-René Lacour in the Laboratory of Exercise Physiology of the University Claude Bernard Lyon 1, was defended on 12/17/1998. This thesis work was carried out in close collaboration with Doctor Hubert Freund from the CNRS in Strasbourg. Its HDR, defended in 2007, was prepared under the supervision of Professor Christian Denis of the University of Saint Etienne.

Associate professor from 1999 to 2010 at the Savoie Mont Blanc University, he is since 2010 full professor in the same university.

In addition, he made two stays abroad: the first of 6 months at the University of Copenhagen in the team of Professor Carsten Juel, and the second of 18 months at the University of California at Berkeley in the team of Professor George A. Brooks.

His research focuses on lactate metabolism, its influence on performance in high-level sport or in pathophysiology context, its role in the regulation of muscle and blood pH, and the effects of training on this metabolism.

Professor Messonnier is currently in charge of the PAF team (Physical Ability and Fatigue in health and disease) of the laboratory.

Within the USMB, L Messonnier was director of the sport science department for 8 years, deputy director of the college for 10 years, director of LIBM for 1 year, deputy director of the laboratory for 12 years.

He is the author of 65 scientific papers published in international journals, the major ones being Blood, Lancet Haematol, Haematologica, Am J Hematol, FASEB J, Clin Sci, Am J Pathol, Am J Physiol, Acta Physiol and J Appl Physiol.

He has worked closely with the French rowing federation for over 15 years.

Laurent Messonnier