Luc AGUILAR gathers more than 25 years of experience in the biotech, pharmaceutical and the cosmetic Industry. He joined L’Oreal’s group 13 years ago to build the biotechnology Department gearing company’s efforts from oil-based towards green and biotech-based ingredients. He is now leading R&D teams focusing on Skin and Hair Microbiome and Exposome Domains. 

He leads expertises from knowledge to products to tackle pollution, sun impacts, pigmentary disorders as well as skin disorders such as acne eczema and ageing. From 2005 to 2011, he was at Pierre Fabre’s Group, a mid-size pharmaceutical company, to advise the President on scientific and biotechnology affairs. During this period, he set up and led an innovation structure dedicated to clinical proof of concept studies. 

Prior to that, he managed operations in Biotech and start-up companies in genomics for corporate clients from 1995 to 2001 after a PhD experience in Molecular Biology gained in Paris at the Pierre et Marie Curie University. He earned also a MS in Biotechnology from I.N.S.A. Toulouse, France.