Paul THOMAS has a PhD in aquatic ecotoxicology and more than 20 years' experience with industrial chemicals, agrochemicals and biocides gained initially at CIT (now Charles River) where he set up the ecotoxicology service and was study director for 4 years, ATOFINA (now ARKEMA) where he practiced ecotoxicology and Risk Assessment for existing substances and then AkzoNobel (now Nouryon) where he was head of department, head of the ecotoxicology GLP and research laboratories and organiser of REACH services for the company for over 6 years. He joined CEHTRA in 2008 as director of CEHTRA Lyon specialising in REACH-related services and is manager of the CEHTRA ecotoxicology team and contributed strongly to numerous successful registrations out of the >600 substances that CEHTRA registered since 2010 and has been working in the area of predictive ecotoxicology since this time. In 2014, while retaining all his roles in CEHTRA, Paul founded KREATiS and was nominated CEO KREATiS is a start-up company specialising in the creation of high accuracy QSARs to replace experimentation for REACH and other regulations. In 2020 he bought the company together with a human health expert, Dr Carole Charmeau, and they have worked hard with the KREATiS team to bring the company to new heights, adding multiple models to their iSafeRat® model suite, and embracing new technologies such as 3D docking models for studying protein-ligand interactions.
Our amazing team
Paul THOMAS, PhD, ERT
President, Model Developer and Expert Ecotoxicologist
Email: paul.thomas@kreatis.eu
Carole CHARMEAU-GENEVOIS PhD, ERT
Managing Director and Expert Toxicologist
Carole CHARMEAU holds a PhD in Toxicology and is qualified as a European Registered Toxicologist (ERT). She has 20 years of experience with industrial chemicals and agrochemicals gained at IARC and then in industry and consulting. She joined CEHTRA in 2008 as a senior toxicologist to strengthen the REACH team at Lyon, providing strategy to assess the hazard of chemicals for human health using alternative methods such as read-across and weight of evidence approach. Carole is also specialised in the derivation of Derived No Effect Levels (DNEL) for the human. She developped the IFRA consumer exposure scenarios guidance (2011) and was involved in ECHA’s project for the consumer risk assessment developing scenarios in ConsExpo to be imported in CHESAR. Since 2016, Carole has participated in human health R&D projects at KREATiS, a daughter company of CEHTRA created in 2014 and specialised in the development of High Accuracy In-Silico models to predict regulatory experimental endpoints such as skin/eye irritation potential or skin sensitisation potential of chemicals. In January 2018, Carole joined KREATiS as Managing Director of the company and in 2020 she became company owner together with an ecotoxicology expert, Dr Paul Thomas, and together with the KREATiS team they have worked hard with to bring the company to new heights in a quest to create and offer the most accurate state-of-the-science models possible.
Email: carole.charmeau@kreatis.eu
Franklin BAUER, PhD
Model Developer and Senior Biochemist
Franklin BAUER obtained his Master’s and Engineer’s degree in organic, bioorganic and therapeutic chemistry from National Graduate School of Chemistry of Mulhouse (ENSCMu) in 2014. During his studies, he gained a strong knowledge of organic chemistry and also learned molecular modelling, software programming and chemical analysis methods. Between december 2014 and december 2017, he did a PhD fellowship in collaboration with KREATiS and University of Haute-Alsace, thanks to a "CIFRE", a funding from French government. This PhD focussed on a better characterisation of mecanisms of toxic action based on the molecular structure. Since then, Franklin is working at KREATiS on QSAR models and software development.
Email: franklin.bauer@kreatis.eu
Zlatomir TODOROV, PhD
Computational Chemist
Zlatomir has an interdisciplinary training in biology and informatics starting with a diploma in life science from the University of Lyon in 2011 followed by a Bachelor’s degree at the University of Perpignan and a Master’s degree at the University of Montpellier in 2014 specializing in bioinformatics. He obtained a PhD in Structural biology and Nanobiology in 2019 from the University of Grenoble on an ambitious molecular modeling project. During this period, he studied the molecular function of mammalian Kir3 channels using high-throughput molecular dynamics simulations, related computational techniques and wet-lab experiments.
Zlatomir joined the KREATiS team in mid-2019 to manage the in-situ 3D molecular modeling capabilities of the company especially in its Endocrine Disruption project. The department aims at providing our clients with prediction services for quantified characterization of the interactions between small molecules and selected biological targets. Currently available or in the pipeline: de-novo and homology modeling, molecular docking, molecular dynamics simulations and computation of the free energies of interaction in molecular complexes.
Email: zlatomir.todorov@kreatis.eu
Emel AY-ALBRECHT, PhD
Data Scientist and Organic Chemist
Emel AY-ALBRECHT, received her PhD in organic chemistry in 2012 and joined the Nakamura group at the University of Tokyo (Japan) as a postdoctoral fellow working on OLED/organic dyes development. Afterwards, she worked for 3 years at the Mulhouse Materials Science Institute (IS2M) in Prof. Jacques Lalevée’s group in the field of photochemistry as a research engineer in collaboration with PEPSI-Co. More recently, she completed a 6-month internship in Deep Learning at IRIMAS under the supervision of Prof. Germain Forestier as part of her Master’s degree in Mathematics and Data Sciences. We were delighted to welcome Emel to our team in September, bolstering our efforts to create the best physical chemistry QSARs possible and many more projects in which we will integrate the most positive aspects of machine learning.
Email: emel.ay-albrecht@kreatis.eu
Ludovic FARAVEL
Post graduate Ecotoxicologist
Ludovic FARAVEL received his Master degree in Environment Management in University of Lorraine (UL) in Metz in 2020. During his studies, he developed skills in ecotoxicology and in ecosystems analysis. During his Master's degree, he implemented normalised ecotoxicity assays in order to determine toxicity of contaminated soils due to rare-earth metals. In 2021, he started a CIFRE thesis at KREATiS in collaboration with the Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire des Environnement Continentaux (LIEC) from UL. This thesis project aims to further investigate the ecotoxicity of cosmetic products to various aquatic organisms. Finally the findings of these assays will be use to adapt and develop an in silico tool to predict complex mixtures of chemicals.
Email: ludovic.faravel@kreatis.eu
Elvire NOGUEIRA
Communication and Finance Project Manager
Elvire obtained a bachelor's degree in Management and Organization of care units in 2008 at the IUT of Lille and then a degree in health in 2010 specialising in quality, evaluation and project management at the University of Lyon. She worked for nearly 20 years alongside healthcare professionals and finally as a Nursing Home Director. In 2015, she joined CEPPRAAL, the Regional Support Structure for the Quality and Safety of Care, as project manager to support health institutions in the Auvergne Rhône Alpes region. In 2018, she created a consulting, training and support company for health and medico-social institutions in the field of continuous improvement in health and obtained by the High Authority of Health her accreditation as an external evaluator. Elvire joined KREATiS in May 2021 to assist the management in administrative tasks, human resources management, quality and financial management of projects and communication.
Email: elvire.nogueira@kreatis.eu
Antoine CHARMEAU
Software developer
Antoine is a student in his 5th year in UTBM (Université de Technologie Belfort-Montbéliard) informatics engineer school, specialising in software development. He's been working with KREATiS since mid-2017. He is one of the main contributors behind the development of KREATiS' tools iSafeRat® Online and iSafeRat® Desktop.
Email: antoine.charmeau@kreatis.eu
Gaspard LEVET, PhD
In Silico Consultant & Organic Chemist
Gaspard Levet obtained his engineering degree in Chemistry and Process Engineering from the School of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Digital Sciences, CPE in Lyon in 2017. As part of these studies, he participated in a research project on TNCQ derivatives at Durham University during an Erasmus exchange and an internship at CEMES laboratory in Toulouse focusing on the organic synthesis of acene precursor resulting in two scientific publications. From 2018 to 2021 he did a PhD funded by the regional authorities in Normandy and the AID (Agence d’Innovation de Defense – French ministry of defense). He worked on the functionalisation and use of cyclodextrin derivatives as organophosphorus nerve agent detoxifying agents (pesticides/chemical weaponry). In January 2022, Gaspard joined KREATiS to boost the knowledge of the company on mechanisms of action of toxic molecules and to provide in silico expertise for our clients.
Email: gaspard.levet@kreatis.eu
Etienne BOURGART, PhD
In Silico Consultant & Toxicologist
Etienne Bourgart received his Master's degree in Research Methods in Ecotoxicology, Toxicology and Public Health from the University of Grenoble-Alpes, France in 2015. This training provided him with a solid understanding of mammalian physiology, cell biology and toxicology as well as a strong background in experimentation. During his internships in research laboratories, he gained experience in in vitro toxicology methods and analytical chemistry. In 2019, he obtained his PhD in Toxicology from the University of Grenoble-Alpes. His research aimed at designing a realistic ex vivo human skin model in order to further explore PAHs mixtures on skin absorption and metabolism of PAHs mixtures with concomitant exposure to UV radiation. He then took advantage of a sabbatical break to improve adaptation skills, open-mindedness and spoken English through an adventure in South-East Asia and New Zealand. After a post-doctoral position on e-cigarettes in the Clermont-Ferrand Chemistry Institute, he joined KREATiS in March 2022 to help to the development of QSAR models for new toxicological endpoints and provide in silico consulting for our clients.
Email: etienne.bourgart@kreatis.eu
Floriane LARRAS, PhD
In silico Consultant & Ecotoxicologist
Floriane LARRAS obtained her PhD in aquatic ecotoxicology in 2013 from the University of Savoie Mont Blanc, France. In 2014, she joined the University of Lorraine, France, as a post-doctoral fellow to develop models estimating risk for microalgal and macroinvertrebrate stream communities exposed to stressors.
Then, in 2016, she obtained a Marie Curie grant to work at the UFZ, Leipzig, Germany, to investigate molecular mechanisms involved in microbial community responses to pesticides. She also contributed to the development of a tool managing omics dose-response curves for ecological risk assessment.
In 2021, she joined the French national institute for agriculture food and environment (INRAE) to investigate the use of effect modelling approaches in phytopharmaceutical products European regulation. She joined KREATiS in June 2022 to continue our work on ecotoxicological QSARs.
Then, in 2016, she obtained a Marie Curie grant to work at the UFZ, Leipzig, Germany, to investigate molecular mechanisms involved in microbial community responses to pesticides. She also contributed to the development of a tool managing omics dose-response curves for ecological risk assessment.
In 2021, she joined the French national institute for agriculture food and environment (INRAE) to investigate the use of effect modelling approaches in phytopharmaceutical products European regulation. She joined KREATiS in June 2022 to continue our work on ecotoxicological QSARs.
Email: floriane.larras@kreatis.eu