Illa Tea
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Postdoctoral Researcher
Dec 2025–Present: Postdoctoral Researcher, ATOMIC group, Institute of Analytical Sciences, Lyon.
Jan 2023–Present: Member of the Junior Board of Directors for the French Network of Metabolomics and Fluxomics (RFMF); Vice-President of RFMF Junior since January 2026.
Oct 2023–Oct 2025: Research Scientist in NMR Metabolomics at Bioaster, Lyon.
Mar 2022–Sep 2023: Postdoctoral Researcher in Metabolomics, Metabolism Exploration Platform, Human Nutrition Unit, INRAE Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Center.
Nov 2019–Dec 2021: Postdoctoral Researcher in NMR and MRI, IRMFOOD team, OPAALE Unit, INRAE Brittany-Normandy Center.
Oct 2016–Oct 2019: PhD in Analytical Chemistry (International Joint Supervision), University of Nantes & Saint Joseph University of Beirut (Lebanon).
Analytical chemistry, specifically metabolomics and isotopomics analysis by Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) and Mass Spectrometry.
Current Research: Analytical development of the iso-Orbitrap for position-specific isotopic analysis of organic compounds of biological interest for authentication purposes.
Previous Research Topics : Authentication of food matrices using lipid markers; Harmonization of reporting data practices for large-scale metabolomics; Online monitoring of biological processes (e.g., lactic fermentation) by NMR; Characterization of bacterial strains by NMR metabolomics.
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