Marion Courtiade-Tholance graduated from the École de Chimie Physique Électronique de Lyon (CPE Lyon) and holds a PhD in Physical Chemistry and Analytical Chemistry from Claude Bernard University Lyon 1. She joined IFP Energies nouvelles in 2007 as research engineer in Gas Chromatography. Since 2012, she is research scientist in Gas Chromatography at the Analytical Department in Centre de Recherche de Solaize (CRES) from Total.