Dr. Dominique Laurier has been working at the French Institute for Radiological Protection and Nuclear Safety (IRSN) since 1995. He is currently the Deputy Head of the Department for Research and Expertise in Health at the French Authority for Nuclear Safety and Radiological Protection (ASNR).
Dr. Laurier holds a PhD degree in Biomathematics and an accreditation to direct research from the Paris-Diderot University in France. His studies included nutrition, epidemiology and biostatistics. He has participated in many international collaborative research projects and co-authored more than 220 articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals.
Dr. Laurier has 30 years of experience in the field of radiation epidemiology. He has been a member of the Main Commission of the International Commission on Radiological protection (ICRP) since 2017 and Chair of ICRP Committee 1 since 2021. He has been Chair of the High-Level Group on Low Dose Research of the Nuclear Energy Agency since 2020. He was member of several national and international expert groups, notably for the ICRP, the UNSCEAR, the World Health Organization and the International Agency for Research on Cancer.
Dr. Laurier has been a member of the French delegation to UNSCEAR since 2019 and is the French representative or alternate representative since 2021.
Dr. Laurence Lebaron-Jacobs has been working at the Life Sciences Division at the French Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) since 2002.
She studied external dosimetry and radiobiology at the Paris XI University, where she obtained her PhD degree in radiobiology - radiopathology in 1994. She received an MD degree from Pierre et Marie Curie University in 1996. During her PhD at the Institute of Protection and Nuclear Safety (IPSN), she was involved in a project of real-time external dosimetry aboard the MIR Russian orbital station. From 1995 to 2001, she worked at the IPSN in the areas of medical management of irradiated victims and research related to effects of ionizing radiation (gamma, heavy ions) on the central nervous system.
Dr. Lebaron-Jacobs is currently a senior expert in the field of radiobiology, radiopathology and radiotoxicology. She is an expert for the European Space Agency (ESA). She coordinates national criticality exercises between clinical biochemistry services of French nuclear sites (assessment of neutron dose).
She has been the Vice Chair of compensation committee for victims of French nuclear testing since 2024. She has been a member of the Article 31 Expert group of the European Commission since 2005, and the Vice Chair of the Working Party on Research Implications on Health and Safety Standards since 2021.
Dr. Lebaron-Jacobs has been a member of the French delegation to UNSCEAR since 2010 and the representative of France for its fifty-eighth (2011), sixtieth (2013), sixty-second (2015), sixty-third (2016), sixty-sixth (2019) and sixty-seventh (2020), seventieth (2023) and seventy-first (2024) sessions. She is the alternate representative since the seventy-second session in 2025.
