Eric Le Bourg

Éric Le Bourg is a French researcher in the Centre de Recherches sur la Cognition Animale at Université Paul Sabatier (Toulouse III). Éric is a biogerontologist working mainly on Drosophila melanogaster, specifically in the evolutionary theory of aging and Drosophila aging. His research interests include learning, effects of mild stress, behavior, demography of human aging and so on. He obtained his “doctorat d’Etat” in 1990 and has published many papers in academic journals, edited books, newspapers, and so on. He has written four books on aging in the french language for the lay public (biology, demographic and social matters, and so on) and academics/students and edited three books, two of them with another editor.