Dr. Matthias Richard

Short Bio

Matthias Richard is a French postdoctoral researcher who did all his university cursus in Montpellier, south of France. He obtained a Bachelor degree in Microbiology in 2013, then two Master Degrees in 2015 and 2016, the first one in Microbial Ecology and the second one in Infectiology and Immunology. He performed two internships abroad, one focus on arboviruses at the Pasteur Institute of Nouméa and the other one on Leishmania parasites in the Pasteur Institute of Athens. He did his last internship at the CNRS of Montpellier ON Mycobacterium tuberculosis, in the same research unit where he did his PhD the following year.

His doctoral thesis was focused on the mechanisms of regulation involved in antibiotic resistance in a different mycobacterium, in M. abscessus. His team and he managed to identify 3 independent TetR-Efflux Pump systems involved in cross-resistance to second line antitubercular drugs and we provided a better understanding of the very problematic macrolide inducible resistance occurring in the bacterium.

He then did a postdoc at the Friedrisch-Schiller University of Jena, Germany, where he used a library of synthetic small RNA combined to the RIL-Seq technology to identify potential new small RNAs involved in biofilm formation and antibiotic resistance in Vibrio cholerae.

In April 2026, he joined the group of the Prof. Maria-Pau Ginebra to be part of the ERC BAMBBI project as a postdoctoral researcher. He will study the bactericidal potential of bioceramics and investigate the moclucar mechanisms reposinble for the killing of the bacteria.