Hélène graduated in Organic Chemistry at the University of Montpellier (France). She completed her PhD in 2007 under the supervision of Prof J. Coudane in the Artificial Biopolymers Department of IBMM in Montpellier, working on the synthesis of biodegradable polymers for tissue engineering and sustained drug release applications. She then joined the group of Prof Rachel Auzély at the CERMAV (Grenoble, France) as a post-doc to work on the chemical modifications of polysaccharides. Hélène moved to England in 2010 in the group of Prof Andrew Dove at the Warwick University before moving at the University of Lille (France) to work as a post-doctoral fellow with Prof Bernard Martel developing multi-drug stents based on polysaccharide layer-by-layer assemblies. In 2011, she became Associate Professor in the Faculty of Pharmacy of Montpellier at the Artificial Biopolymers Department of IBMM. Her research is dedicated to the synthesis and chemical modification of synthetic and natural biodegradable polymers for biomedical applications including : nano-systems for anti-cancer drug release, anti-adhesion polymeric membranes for orthopedic surgery, synthesis of amphiphilic copolymers for environmental applications.