After she obtained her PhD in nutrition and Food Science at the University of Bordeaux in 2004, Severine Kirchner left her native France to work as a molecular and cellular biologist in the United-States. Her successive appointments as a research associate for the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey and the University of California Irvine allowed her to conduct research on the metabolic disorders diabetes and obesity. For more than 10 years she has had a keen interest in new technologies such as transcriptomics and stem cell biology that she studied firsthand in the lab.