Dr. Eric Ravussin is a Boyd Professor at Louisiana State University. Dr. Ravussin was named Boyd Professor (highest professorial rank awarded by the LSU) in May 2012 for his national and international distinction for outstanding teaching, research, or other creative achievements. He received his PhD in human physiology at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. Recently Dr. Ravussin was promoted to the Associate Executive Director in Obesity and Diabetes at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center. This new position allows him to “play a greater administrative role with the faculty and the Center as a whole, while still being able to maintain his lab, research, consulting and collaborations.” He is also the Douglas L. Gordon Chair in Diabetes and Metabolism as well as the Director of the NIH-funded Nutrition Obesity Research Center. Dr. Ravussin is an internationally recognized translational investigator in obesity and diabetes research. His research now focuses on the molecular basis of obesity and its co-morbidities. His studies are aimed at understanding the molecular mechanisms that determine the inter-individual variability in energy expenditure, fat oxidation and in the activity of the sympathetic nervous system. He also concentrates on the relationship between physiology and gene expression in response to diet and physical training. He has presented important clinical and molecular data related to the patho-physiology of obesity and/or diabetes at conferences around the world. Over the past 12 years, Dr. Ravussin has also been awarded many grants from the National Institute of Health. His latest research is in the field of aging with an emphasis on the impact of caloric restriction on human biomarkers of aging and longevity. Dr. Ravussin has published more than 400 peer reviewed papers in numerous scientific journals. Dr. Ravussin has also been the recipient of multiple awards including the 1990-IASO “Andre Mayer Award” for outstanding contributions to research in the field of obesity in Kobe, Japan; the 2001 “E.V. McCollum Award” for actively generating new concepts in nutrition and personally seeing to the execution of studies testing the validity of these concepts (American Society for Clinical Nutrition); the “2006 TOPS Award” (The Obesity Society, TOS); the 2010 “Willendorf Award” presented by IASO at the International Congress of Obesity in Stockholm for outstanding contributions to clinical research in obesity, the 2011 George Bray Founders Award recognizing “significant contributions that advanced the scientific or clinical basis for understanding or treating obesity” presented by TOS; the 2011 NUTRIM Lecture Award presented at the School for Nutrition, Toxicology and Metabolism; Maastricht University, The Netherlands. Dr. Ravussin has also been an active member of The Obesity Society, serving on the Council, the program committee and as a former President of the Society from 2006-2008. Dr. Ravussin was named Editor in Chief of Obesity in 2012.