INRAE

French National Institute for Agriculture, Food, and Environment (INRAE) |

INRAE · Unité Mixte de Recherches sur les Herbivores (UMRH)

President of the French Association for Animal Production

Since 1991, Dr JF Hocquette has been a research scientist at INRAE (the French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and the Environment). His research interest mainly concerns muscle biology as relevant to muscle growth and beef eating quality. He was leader of the research team “Muscle Growth and Metabolism” (1999-2006), and Director of the Herbivore Research Unit (172 staff, 2006-2010). He has been working for the French High Council for Evaluation of Research and Higher Education (HCERES) from 2012 to 2021. In 2014, Dr Hocquette organized the French Meat R&D congress (240 people). He is strongly involved in the activities of EAAP (European Association for Animal Production) and is the President of the French Association for Animal Science. Dr Hocquette has also organised the 74th EAAP Annual Meeting in Lyon in 2023 with more than 2,000 delegates and was awarded twice by the American Society of Animal Sciences (2014 and 2021).