Giuseppe Gangarossa
Université Paris Cité, Unité Biologie Fonctionnelle et Adaptative (CNRS UMR 8251)
Institut Universitaire de France (IUF)
Title
The gut-brain vagal axis governs mesolimbic dopamine dynamics and reward events
Biosketch
Giuseppe Gangarossa is Professor of Neurobiology at Université Paris
Cité and a member of the Unit of Functional and Adaptive Biology. His
research explores the molecular and cellular mechanisms governing
homeostatic and hedonic circuits that regulate energy balance and
feeding behaviors, drawing inspiration from the emerging field of
metabo-psychiatry.
He earned a Pharm.D. from the University of
Bologna (Italy) and a European Ph.D. in Biomedical Sciences from the
University of Bologna and Karolinska Institutet (Sweden) in 2011.
Between 2011 and 2016, he pursued postdoctoral training in France
(Montpellier, Paris) and Canada (London, Montreal). Over time, his
research evolved from pure neurosciences to integrative physiology,
reinforcing his belief that the brain does not act alone. In 2017, he
was appointed Associate Professor at Université Paris Cité and promoted
to Full Professor in 2022. His recent distinctions include the junior
membership to the Institut Universitaire de France (2023) and the
Humboldt Fellowship (2025). As a Humboldtian, he is also affiliated
with the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics (Tubingen,
Germany), in the Body-Brain Department of Prof. Ivan de Araujo.
A committed advocate for equity in academia, Prof. Gangarossa actively works to combat discrimination and LGBTQ+ stigmatization as a member of the Alba Network.