Jérôme Hamelin
HAMELIN Jérôme
04 68 42 51 56
CDA MICA
Research Director
Dpt. MICA

Contact

jerome.hamelin_at_inrae.fr

Research topics

Research axis: IMAGE

Scientific production (ORCID): https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3601-6349

  • Understanding of community assembly rules to pilot microbial ecosystems
  • Ecological engineering of microbial ecosystems from environmental bioprocesses (anaerobic digestion, wastewater treatment)
  • Development of a photogranules technology for wastewater treatment and resource recovery for the bioeconomy

Previous and current positions

2017-current : Research Director at INRAE-LBE, Narbonne (France)
2019 : Sabbatical stay at University of Massachusetts – UMass Amherst (USA)
2005-2016 : Research Scientist at INRAE-LBE, Narbonne (France)
2003-2005 : Post-doc position at University of Neuchâtel and ETH Zürich (Switzerland)
1999-2003 : Teaching and Research Assistant in microbiology at University of Neuchâtel (Switzerland)
1997-1999 : National duty as Research Scientist at the French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development (IRD) Dakar (Senegal)

Diploma

2015 : French Habilitation to Supervise PhD students (HDR) in Microbial Ecological Engineering, University of Montpellier (France)
2003 : PhD in microbiology from University of Neuchâtel (Switzerland)
1992-1997 : Bachelor and Master from Claude Bernard University Lyon 1 (France)

Professional involvements

2025-current : Deputy head of the Microbiology and the Food Chain division from INRAE
2009-2024 : Deputy head of the LBE laboratory
2017-2020 : Responsible of the DIIEM research team 
2019-current : Member of the steering committee of the INRAE Holoflux metaprogram (Holobionts and microbial fluxes in the agri-food chain) 
2018-current : Recommender for Peer Community in Ecology (PCI Ecology)
2022-current : Recommender for Peer Community in Microbiology (PCI Microbiology)