Michel Loreau

Michel Loreau is a Belgian-French theoretical ecologist. As of 2023, he is an emeritus researcher at the Theoretical and Experimental Ecology Station of the National Centre for Scientific Research in Moulis and adjunct professor at Peking University.
Loreau won the 2002 International Ecology Institute Prize in terrestrial ecology. He was elected a member of the Academia Europaea, in 2013 and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2010. In 2019, Loreau won the Grand Prix of the French Society of Ecology and Evolution. He was listed as a Highly Cited Researcher in Ecology/Environment from 2007 to 2019. In 2020, he was named an honorary member of the British Ecological Society.