Dr. Nadine Pernodet is Senior ELC Fellow and Senior Vice President AT Bioscience at the Estee Lauder Companies (ELC). Dr Pernodet is leading Global Bioscience Group including Fermentation and Bioactives as well as the Academic collaboration network. Dr Pernodet is also the lead scientist to the Estee Lauder brand and serves as their scientific advisor, innovator, and spokesperson.
Nadine joined ELC in 2007, and since then has created an extensive track record of product innovation that has helped to transform the Beauty business and delivering innovations that have fueled iconic hero products and new products. As head of
Bioscience group, she has created a continuous stream of new scientific insights that have driven a pipeline of efficacious active ingredients, new claims, new concepts, and new scientific communications and credentialing for successful global skincare launches such as Advanced Night Repair, Perfectionist Pro- franchise, Supreme and Re-Nutriv Diamond… Resulting from these innovations, the Estee Lauder brand was awarded the Prestigious International Marie-Claire Prix d’Excellence for Research and
Innovation in 2017, 2019 and 2021. Her technical leadership has driven new ELC’s internal capabilities, developing new methods to research, identify and support new technologies. She has also built new collaborations and partnerships and is recognized externally as an expert in Skin Biology. Her unique approach to the science of Beauty is to combine her extensive background in biophysics and biology to better understand skin bionetworks and to approach research through an interdisciplinary lens. She has been at the forefront of the research in Mechanobiology, Epigenetics, Circadian Rhythm (clock genes),Sirtuins, and Systems Biology.
Dr Pernodet has been actively involved in scientific research for more than 20 years in the private sector, as well as in Academia. She has published over 50 peer-reviewed scientific publications/chapters in journals and been co-inventor on over 36 patent families with over 130 worldwide submissions.
Prior to ELC, Dr Pernodet was a tenure-track Assistant Professor at Stony Brook University in Materials Science & Engineering, Molecular, and Chemical Engineering and now serves as Adjunct Professor for the Chemical Engineering program. Nadine received her Ph.D. with distinction in Physical Chemistry from Louis Pasteur University and is originally from France.
