Lionel Guidi got a PhD in 2008 both at the Université Pierre et Marie Curie (France) and at Texas A%M University. He moved to the University of Hawaii between 2008 and 2012 for a first postdoctoral fellowship with David M. Karl and Matthew Church at CMORE and HOT.

He did a second post-doc in 2013 at the Laboratoire d’Oceanographie de Villefranche before to get a permanent research position at the CNRS. During his PhD and Postdoctoral experience he focused his studies on the biological pump using imaging technologies to work on particles dynamic across all spatial and temporal scales...