Nicolas Foray has a position as the Director of Research INSERM and the Head of the INSERM Radiation Research Unit of Lyon, France. He received his Ph.D. in Radiobiology at the Faculty of Medicine, Paris-Saclay University (1997) and HDR at the Grenoble Alpes University (2008). He is also a president of the Société Francophone de Radiobiologie, focused his research on the individual response to radiation in a clinical, environmental, or accidental context. He was a laureate of the Academy of Sciences in 2009 and of the Academy of Medicine in 2021.