Khadija El Hadri-Zegouah is a professor of Animal Physiology at the Faculty of Science and Engineering (Pierre and Marie Curie Campus) of Sorbonne University in Paris. She is affiliated with the “Development, Adaptation, and Aging” (Dev2A) laboratory, where she leads a research project on age-related inflammation within the “Integrative Cellular, Aging and Inflammation” team at the Paris Scène Biology Institute (IBPS, Dev2A). In addition to her research activities, she is also responsible for the “Nutrition, Quality and Health” (NQS) program in the Master's in Integrative Biology and Physiology. She has extensive experience in setting up and supervising nutritional innovation projects with her Master's 2 students as part of the “Nutrition and Health” course, for which she is responsible within her NQS Master's program. These projects are developed at the Sorbonne University FabLab in collaboration with startups in the field of nutritional innovation for sustainable food. She has acquired solid experience in providing scientific support and advice to several startups and companies partnering with the NQS master's program.

Khadija is involved in two newly created structures, January 2025, as part of the Sorbonne University Alliance. She is deputy director of the Food Initiative and a member of the executive committee and coordinator of the Nutrition Division of the Global Health Institute.