Anne-Laure Gatignon Turnau is a full Professor at the University of Toulouse 3 Paul Sabatier. She has been conducting research in the field of Human Resources Management and Organizational Behaviour for 15 years. Her research topics are mainly burnout, work proactivity, and affective commitment in the organization. She obtained her  HDR diploma in 2017.  It deals with the employee initiative as a response to the new corporate challenges. She is currently the associate director of the LGCO laboratory and a member of the HRM-OB department of the Toulouse School of Management doctoral program.

She studied at the Ecole Normale Supérieure Cachan Paris Saclay, and she obtained PhD in 2005. Her thesis focused on corporate volunteering program. She continued her career by broadening her research field to include entrepreneurship and healthy organizations. More precisely, two topics are favoured in her current research work : organizational support for innovation and social impact of technological innovations.  She participates in an European consortium, named "el Acción Grupo de Campus Iberus", which brings together researchers from several disciplines, such as Social Work, Social Psychiatry, Social Education, Sociology, and Economics. She  is also developing specific programs on different societal themes, such as agro-ecological transition, artificial intelligence and e-Health, in collaboration with laboratories of engineering or health sciences, such as INRAE, LAAS - CNRS (Laboratory of Analysis and Architecture of Systems), Institut Clément Ader and INSERM.

Its scientific valorisation activity has mainly resulted in the publication of articles in ranking journals, such as the Journal of Business Research and the International Journal of Human Resources Management, frequent communication within international conferences (AOM, EURAM...), and a proofreading activity about Organizational Behaviour within several academic journals.