Yves-Alain Barde is a professor of Neurobiology at Cardiff University. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2017.
Barde was awarded the IPSEN prize, the Ameritec Foundation Award and the Perl-UNC Prize. He is a member of the European Molecular Biology Organization and External Member of the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology.
Barde is the author of hundreds of academic publications which have been cited over 42,000 times according to Google Scholar.