Jean-Pierre Thomé is Emeritus Professor at the University of Liège (ULiège ; Belgium). He was previously at the head of the laboratory of animal ecology and ecotoxicology (LEAE) associated to the CART (Center for Analytical Research and Technology) of which management board he presided up to 2017. He is recognised for the expertise of his laboratory in the evaluation of the POPs contamination in aquatic organisms and the study of the impact of these micropollutants on some metabolic pathways in fishes and freshwater invertebrates. The CART-LEAE has been involved for the past 15 years in studies of issues related to the presence of chlordecone in the French Antilles (Guadeloupe and Martinique) and both public health (collaboration with the INSERM of Rennes, the CHU of Pointe-à-Pitre, the InVS and the ARS-santé) and the ecotoxicological impacts of this pesticide on freshwater biocenosis (collaboration with the INRA-Rennes, the University of the Havre and the University of the Antilles). The LEAE-CART is involved in the toxicocinetic studies of chlordecone concentration in sheep serum in the framework of the INSSICCA program.
