Dr. Mireille Fouillaud is a senior lecturer at the University of Reunion and a researcher at the Laboratory of Chemistry and Biotechnology of Natural Products (ChemBioPro). She graduated in 1990 as an industrial microbiology engineer. Following a Ph.D. in Cell Biology and Microbiology from the University of Aix-Marseille I defended in 1994, she was recruited at the Faculty of Sciences and Technology of the University of Reunion. Between 2009 and 2020 she joined the Ecole Supérieure d’Ingénieurs Réunion Océan Indien (ESIROI), in the food engineering department. She teaches biology and microbiology applied to agribusiness. In 2020 she came back to the Faculty of Sciences of the University of La Réunion to teach microbiology and project management. Her main research interests range from the microbial diversity of ecosystems and organisms to the production of metabolites of interest for industries, through biotechnology. Some years ago, she decided to focus on pigmented metabolites obtained from marine-derived filamentous fungi, with potential applications in foods or dyeing industries. She also studies actinomycetes and their production of specialized bioactive metabolites.