Adrien Hallou

WORK HISTORY

EDUCATION

ABOUT ADRIEN HALLOU

I am a Group Leader in Tissue Biology and the Principal Investigator of the Laboratory of Cell and Tissue Dynamics at the Kennedy Institute, University of Oxford. My interdisciplinary research group is funded by the Kennedy Trust for Rheumatology Research, the Royal Society, the Clarendon Fund, the EPA Cephalosporin Fund, Guts UK, the John Fell Fund and Innovate UK. My group develops innovative experimental and computational approaches combining mechanobiology, spatial genomics, advanced imaging, machine learning /AI and mathematical modelling to investigate the role of mechanical and biochemical signalling in cell fate decisions and tissue dynamics in development, homeostasis and disease. Initially trained as a physicist and chemist at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, I developed my interest in quantitative approaches to biological systems during my MPhil and PhD at the University of Cambridge, where I was supported by a prestigious Oliver Gatty Studentship in Biophysical Sciences. My doctoral research work, which was supervised by Professor A. Kabla and Professor J-M. Di Meglio, used both theory and experiment to understand the mechanobiology of collective cell migration behaviour observed in cancer metastasis and of pattern formation during embryonic morphogenesis.Subsequently, I was a Junior Research Fellow at Darwin College Cambridge and a Herchel Smith Research Fellow in Biological Sciences hosted in the group of Professor B.D. Simons FRS FMedSci at the Gurdon Institute and the Cavendish Laboratory, where my work focused on developing new computational and experimental approaches to understand the role of tissue mechanics in cell fate decisions in development, adult tissue homeostasis and tumourigenesis.