Maria MELCHIOR

Maria Melchior holds a ScD (Harvard University) and is accredited to supervise research (UVSQ). She is Director of Research at Inserm. In 2025-2026, she holds the annual Chair in Public Health at the Collège de France. Her work focuses on social inequalities in mental health and addictive behaviors, with a particular interest in developmental trajectories from childhood to adulthood and intergenerational transmission. 

Her research is mainly based on longitudinal cohort data (ELFE, TEMPO, CONSTANCES in France, DNBC in Denmark). She received the Research Prize from the European Psychiatric Association (2012), the Early Career Award from the International Society of Behavioral Medicine (2004), and the MILDECA Addiction Research Prize (2018). She is the author or co-author of more than 280 original articles published in peer-reviewed scientific journals. Her projects are funded by the ANR, the Fond de Lutte contre les Addictions, the EU (H2020), and the ERC (Consolidator 2021-2025).