William BOUARD has joined the CCARS team
William BOUARD joined the CCARS team at IPS2 on September 1st as an Associate Professor of the University Paris-Saclay.
Being a molecular biologist and biochemist by training, William began his academic journey at the University Paris-Saclay (Master IQPV, IPS2), and then worked in the agronomic industry (development of new cultivars, fertilization plans, precision agriculture, and monitoring of vegetable crops), mostly in Canada. He then transitioned to academic research, by completing a Ph.D. and a postdoctoral fellowship in Montreal.
Today, William, within the CCARS team, studies plant responses to environmental constraints. His work aims to identify levers for optimizing plant performance through a better understanding of stress response mechanisms, with the goal of supporting the development of sustainable agriculture in the face of current and future climate and food challenges. His research interests focus on the regulation of gene expression, chloroplast-associated signaling processes, and reactive oxygen species homeostasis. By combining functional genomics, molecular biology, and biochemistry approaches, he studies responses to abiotic stresses, mostly in Arabidopsis thaliana and wheat. His previous work has notably focused on the role of C1-2i zinc finger transcription factors as well as 2-Cys peroxiredoxins in drought tolerance.
Welcome to William in the CCARS team!
07/01/2026