Guillaume Thibault PhD is a biochemist/cell biologist with 20 years of experience in cellular stress responses and quality control. He obtained his Ph.D. under the supervision of Prof Walid Houry from the Department of Biochemistry, University of Toronto, Canada. He was then a postdoc in Dr Davis Ng’s laboratory at Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, Singapore. He joined the School of Biological Sciences (SBS) at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) to set up his research programme focusing on cellular stress and lipid homeostasis with funding from the prestigious Elite Nanyang Assistant Professorship Award and was subsequently promoted to Associate Professor (tenured). He secured more than S$ 3.3M in external funding as a principal investigator at SBS, NTU. He has published 33 papers and has an h-index of 19. He holds a joint appointment as co-Principal Investigator at the Mechanobiology Institute, National University of Singapore and as Adjunct Principal Investigator, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, A*STAR. He is also the founding President of the Society for Cell Biology Singapore (SCBS). ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS 2013 Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, National University of Singapore 2007 Ph.D. in Biochemistry, University of Toronto, Canada 2002 B.Sc. in Biochemistry, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada 1999 Diploma in Analytical Chemistry, Collège Ahuntsic, Canada