Prof. François Mariotti, MEng, PhD, HDR, is Professor of Nutrition within the Human Biology and Nutrition department at AgroParisTech, the Paris Institute of Technology for Life, Food and Environmental Sciences (Paris, France), which is now a component of the Université Paris-Saclay. He heads a research group named PROSPECT (“Protein intake, nutrition security and cardiometabolic risk”) in a joint AgroParisTech-INRAE research unit. He has served as an expert in public nutrition at the French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health & Safety for 20 years; he chaired the Standing Committee on Nutrition from 2012 to 2022.
Prof. Mariotti’s research has focused on various aspects of protein nutrition. He has worked on protein and amino acid metabolism in humans, with a special emphasis on dietary plant vs animal protein, exploring the metabolism and physiological impact of dietary proteins and amino acids, using a variety of approaches. He has a long standing interest in nutrition in relation to the initiation of metabolic and physiological dysregulations related to cardiometabolic risk. Beyond his expertise in metabolism and nutritional physiopathology, Prof. Mariotti is a public health nutritionist, with a significant research interest and teaching activity in the broader area of nutrient requirements and status, nutrient reference intake, and the nutritional adequacy of the diets. He has developed approaches to studying the nutritional quality of the diets in observational studies and he investigates how it relates to plant and animal protein intakes and varied nutritional transitions, using simulation and modeling. He and his team are now dedicated to nutritional research about the dietary transition towards a more plant-based diet using diet modelling, in silico experiments and multidimensional dietary quality assessment. With a long standing and continued involvement at the French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health & Safety, he has been largely involved in the revision of the French dietary guidelines for different populations.
Prof. Mariotti has authored >150 international publications and he is the author and editor for a 45-chapter academic book on Vegetarian and plant-based diet in health and disease prevention, published by Elsevier in 2017.