Francis Willequet, agronomist, is Head of the Academic Programs for Nutrition and Health of the Institut Polytechnique LaSalle Beauvais.
Specialized in animal nutrition, mainly, in pork nutrition, Francis began his career as adviser in agriculture and this, for a five-year period. In 1987, he joined the Institut LaSalle Beauvais to realize over years different lectures : General Physiology, Physiology of the Nutrition, Physiology of the Digestion and Absorption, Physiology of the Development and Aging, Animal Nutrition and Animal Production. During a period closed to ten years, he was visiting lecturer for the Faculty of Agronomy of the Catholic University of Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium).
On research, Francis has carried out experiments with a “research and development” approach in nutrition and as a model, the pork. At the beginning of the 80’s, his preoccupations were the valorization of the French proteagineous sources (peas, horse-beans, lupines) to substitute the soya bean meal. In 1989, by-products produced by the food industries and the food service industries became of interest for him. Beyond theirs chemical and the nutritional characteristics, he took into consideration the effects of their utilization on technological, nutritional, sensorial and sanitary qualities of meat. In 1992, using the new-born piglet as a pre-clinical model of the premature baby, he contributed to the establishment of a territorial link between medical and agronomic sciences and to the creation of the nutrition and health curriculum. These activities allowed him 41 contributions (publications, communications, chapters of books, posters).
In HOTPOT project, Francis is in charge of the French academic contribution
