Arthur DAVID

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Titre(s) : Professor EHESP, Head of non-targeted mass spectrometry platforms (LERES/France Expsome)

Diplôme(s) : Docteur en Chimie Environnementale

Appartenance(s) : Département des sciences en santé environnementale (DEESSE), Laboratoire d'étude et de recherche en environnement et santé (LERES), UMR 1085 Institut de recherche sur la santé l'environnement et le travail (IRSET), UMR 1085 IRSET

Cursus

Arthur David is Professor of Environmental Health Sciences at the French School of Public Health (EHESP, Rennes, France), where he conducts research within the Laboratory for Environmental Health Studies and Research (LERES). He obtained a Master's degree in Environmental Sciences (2005) and a PhD in Environmental Chemistry (2009) from the University of Montpellier, before pursuing an international research career through a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship and a Research Fellowship at the University of Sussex (United Kingdom). In 2016, he was awarded a Research Chair of Excellence to establish an independent research programme in human exposomics at EHESP. He obtained his Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches (HDR) in 2021 and served as Deputy Head of the Department of Environmental Health Sciences and Research Director of LERES from 2021 to 2024.

He currently leads the non-targeted high-resolution mass spectrometry (HRMS) platform at LERES, a core facility of the France Exposome Research Infrastructure, and heads an interdisciplinary research group composed of postdoctoral researchers, research engineers, PhD candidates and Master's students. His team develops innovative analytical and computational approaches to advance human chemical exposomics and environmental health research.

Recherche

Arthur David's research focuses on the human chemical exposome, i.e. the comprehensive characterisation of environmental chemicals present in the human body and their implications for health. His work combines analytical chemistry, human biomonitoring, high-resolution mass spectrometry (HRMS), computational sciences and systems biology to develop innovative methods for measuring, identifying and interpreting complex chemical mixtures. He coordinates and contributes to several national and European research initiatives, including France Exposome, PARC (Partnership for the Assessment of Risks from Chemicals), EXPOSIGNALZ (https://www.exposignalz.com/) and EIRENE, with research spanning analytical method development, computational workflows for HRMS, large-scale human biomonitoring and systems-level chemical exposomics.

Expertise

Arthur David contributes to national and European expert activities in the fields of human biomonitoring, analytical chemistry and chemical risk assessment. He is involved in the development of harmonised analytical and computational methodologies within European research infrastructures and partnerships, particularly PARC, France Exposome and EIRENE. His expertise covers targeted and non-targeted HRMS, quality assurance and quality control (QA/QC), chemical annotation, exposomics and biomonitoring. He regularly serves as reviewer for leading international journals and research funding agencies, and contributes to methodological guidelines and international collaborative initiatives aimed at improving the reproducibility and comparability of exposomics data.

Enseignement

Arthur David teaches environmental health sciences, analytical chemistry and human biomonitoring within the programmes of the French School of Public Health (EHESP) including the Master of Public Health (https://mph.ehesp.fr/). His teaching covers environmental contaminants, exposure assessment, mass spectrometry, exposomics, quality assurance in analytical sciences and the interpretation of biomonitoring data. He is involved in the supervision of Master's students, PhD candidates and postdoctoral researchers, and contributes to specialised national and international training courses on chemical exposomics and high-resolution mass spectrometry.