Barbara Demeneix holds an emeritus professorship in the Comparative Physiology Laboratory (UMR 7221 – Molecular Physiology and Adaptation), a CNRS mixed research unit within the Natural History Museum in Paris. Trained in the United Kingdom, France, Canada, and Germany, she is an internationally recognised expert on thyroid function and endocrine disruption and is the author of more than 200 scientific publications. She is an associate member of the French Academy of Agriculture since 2018 and she became a member of the National Academy of Technologies of France in 2019.

She has received numerous awards for her work, notably the Mentoring Award 2011 from the journal ‘Nature’ and the CNRS Medal for Innovation in 2014. She was also promoted to ‘Officer’ of the French Legion d’Honneur in the same year and ‘Commandeur’ of the National Order of Merit by the French government in 2019 for her scientific achievements.