Professor Philippe Lebaron is Vice President of Sorbonne University in charge of economic partnerships and entrepreneurship, and he was the director of the Observatoire Océanologique de Banyuls from 2005 to 2015. He obtained a Ph.D. degree in Montpellier in 1989. He is the author of 180 publications in peer-reviewed journals, 6 books or book chapters, and 4 patents. He has been working in the field of marine ecology, with recent expertise in ecotoxicology to investigate the impact of health care products on marine ecosystems and organisms.