Abdou Rachid Thiam

Abdou Rachid Thiam
Born	Dakar, Senegal
Alma mater	Pierre and Marie Curie University
Known for	lipid droplets
Scientific career
Institutions	Ecole Normale Superieure Yale University
Website	https://arthiam.com/

Abdou Rachid Thiam is a Senegalese ^[1] biophysicist and research director at the French National Centre for Scientific Research ^[2] and Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris, France (UMR 8023), where he studies physical mechanisms regulating the dynamics of lipid droplets in cells and in vitro.

He was the recipient of a CNRS Bronze medal in 2020. ^[3]

Thiam received a Bachelor of Science from ESPCI Paris ^[4] before conducting his doctoral research at Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris on the study of the stability of emulsions using microfluidics. ^[5] After his PhD, he moved to Yale University in 2012 under a Marie Curie fellowship to conduct postdoctoral research in the team of Nobel prize Laureate James E. Rothman, ^[6] before starting his research group at CNRS in 2014. ^[7]

Most cited papers as an independent researcher

• Thiam AR, Beller M. The why, when and how of lipid droplet diversity. Journal of cell science. 2017 Jan 15;130(2):315-24. (Cited 158 times, according to Google Scholar. ^[8] )
• Wang H, Becuwe M, Housden BE, Chitraju C, Porras AJ, Graham MM, Liu XN, Thiam AR, Savage DB, Agarwal AK, Garg A. Seipin is required for converting nascent to mature lipid droplets. elife. 2016 Aug 26;5:e16582. (Cited 215 times, according to Google Scholar ^[8] )

References

1. Sénégal: Recherches scientifiques - Le Sénégalais Abdou Rachid Thiam distingué par le CNRS – All Africa
2. Abdou Rachid Thiam – CNRS
3. Abdou Rachid Thiam receives the CNRS bronze medal 2020 Laboratoire de Physique de l'Ecole Normale Superieure
4. Sénégal: Recherches scientifiques - Le Sénégalais Abdou Rachid Thiam distingué par le CNRS – All Africa
5. Émulsions adhésives et non adhésives : Stabilité et propriétés des interfaces étudiées par la microfluidique PhD manuscript (fr), HAL
6. Un physicien senegalais dans l’equipe de recherche du nobel de medecine 2013 - Seneplus
7. Abdou Rachid Thiam – CNRS
8. Google Scholar Author page, Accessed Nov. 18, 2021

External links

• Abdou Rachid Thiam publications indexed by Google Scholar