About me
Where I am: As of Sept 1st 2022, I officially hold 2 part-time positions:
80% Professor, based at the Economics of Human Behavior group, at the Paris School of Economics (PSE), in France.
20% Assistant Professor in Psychology, based at the Swiss Center for Affective Science (CISA), at the University of Geneva (UNIGE), in Switzerland.
Since 2021, I am also an Associated member of the Human Reinforcement Learning (HRL) team, at the Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS-PSL) Paris, FR.
What I do: Since my B.Sc in 2007, I have been interested in understanding the foundation of human and animal behavior.
My main focus has been the investigation of the computational and biological basis of economic behavior (choices, preferences, beliefs) - a recent disciplinary field called Neuroeconomics.
I try to combine cognitive neurosciences, behavioral economics, and reinforcement learning to provide new hints about our (often irrational) behavior, by associating behavioral experiments, computational models and functional neuroimaging.
You can download my full CV here.
If interested, you can also check my Google Scholar, LinkedIn or Publons profiles.
I also have a Twitter account, where I sometimes share random thoughts.
Media, public policies and science popularization:
01/11/2023 Motivated beliefs may root in biased (reinforcement) learning PSE Policy Brief
09/10/2023: Quand la confiance devient excessive Les Echos
14/10/2021: Dans la tête d'un indécis Scientific TV emission at the National Swiss Radio RTS
15/07/2021: Communication Biology Q&A series - Spotlight on young independent scientists. Communication Biology
18/04/2019: CQFD Scientific radio emission at the National Swiss Radio RTS
04-12/2019: Contribution to the Enlightenment 2.0 Flagship Report - Scientific report aimed at members of the European Commission, led by the Horizon2020 Joint Research Center [project page] [executive summary]
A brief (academic) history:
[2018-2021] I spent about three years as a full-time Senior Research Associate, based at the Swiss Center for Affective Science (CISA), at the University of Geneva (UNIGE), in Switzerland. I was hosted in the Laboratory for Neuro-Imaging of Cognition (LabNIC) at the Department of Fundamental Neuroscience, University of Geneva.
[2014-2018] I spent about four years as a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Amsterdam (UvA), Amsterdam, Netherlands. I worked at the Centre for Research in Experimental Economics and political Decision-making (CREED), and was affiliated to the Amsterdam Brain and Cognition (ABC).
[2009-2013] I hold a PhD in Cognitive Neurosciences from the Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6), Paris, France. I worked at the Motivation, Brain and Behavior (MBB) Team - Brain and Spine Institute (ICM), under the supervision of Mathias Pessiglione.
[2007-2009] I hold a research M.Sc in Biosciences from the Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon (ENSL). I quickly specialized in Cognitive Neurosciences, through my different research interships:
[2008] 4-5 months at the Brain Mapping Unit (BMU) - Behavioral and Clinical Neuroscience Institute (BCNI), in the Psychiatry Department of the University of Cambridge, UK, under the supervision of Graham Murray.
[2008] 4-5 months at the INSERM U821 - 'Cerebral Dynamics and Cognition' (DYCOG), in Lyon (now part of the Lyon Neuroscience Research Center), under the supervision of Jérémie Mattout.
[2009] 6 months at the Motivation, Brain and Behavior (MBB) Team - Brain and Spine Institute (ICM) in Paris, under the supervision of Mathias Pessiglione.