Beninia Habchi

Dr. Habchi is a Lebanese, French researcher with multilingual and intercultural professional experiences. The role of small molecule metabolites in driving biology has been the focus of her research since the beginning of her studies. Towards that end, she obtained her PhD thesis in analytical sciences and metabolomics in October 2017 from INRA-AgroParisTech in collaboration with Pierre & Marie Curie University, Paris-France. Her PhD was funded by DIM Analytics and region Ile-de-France and was focused on the detection of metabolic disruptions induced by exposure to pollutants present in the environment using an FTMS instrument in combination with chemometric tools. After her PhD thesis, she pursued postdoctoral studies in high-throughput metabolomics at Aix-Marseille University, Marseille, France. During her postdoctoral researcher at Marseille she developed and applied mass spectrometry-based metabolomics approaches to detect a metabolomic signature of acute uranium contamination. She began working as a postdoctoral researcher in metabolomics epidemiology in the Wheelock lab in January 2020, focusing on the link between early life metabolism and onset of respiratory disease using the Swedish BAMSE cohort. She is particularly interested in continuing her work in the field of metabolomics, which she has found to be particularly interesting and important for elucidating biological mechanisms.