Collective Activities

Member of the extented "BCP" of BSO Inria centre, since 2020. Advisory roles for the center's “surrounding” scientific policy and strategy, recruitment of permanent researchers, especially , monitoring and assistance in setting up Inria teams, organization of intern scientific events, writting support to communication staff for popularization contents on AI, disabilty, health and Education, etc.

 PIQ Referal for the centre Inria of Univ. of Bordeaux  covering 3 universities (Bordeaux, LaRochelle, Limoges), since  2024. My role is twofold: 1) to follow up and help site referents and applicants to define and draft projects, while ensuring compliance with PIQ program policy, i.e. close dialogue with PIQ staff, and 2) to inform the center's scientific management of applications in progress in New Aquitaine via a dedicated "pad", and their positioning in relation to the PIQ program's national results.

Referal of Education topic for the centre Inria of Univ. of Bordeaux  (covering 3 teams : Bivouac, Flowers, Mnemosyme), and for which I'm the centre proxis at  RTP CNRS Éducation

Team Head of Flowers-Inria project (2021-22) : Management, scientific leadership, coordination of the four-year Inria evaluation report, and the 2021 annual report (replacing P.Y. Oudeyer for 1 year).

Team Deputy of Flowers-Inria project (2019-21 ; 2022-today) : Administrative and scientific assistance to team head,  and scientific coordinator of all research including experiments with humans (study design, Judgment criteria, ethical rules, COERLE procedures, field study implementation, satistical treatments, etc.)

Head of an Associate Inria Team-  CuriousTech  Inria-UW – Univ. Waterloo (Canada), since 2023. The multi-disciplinary program (Prof. M. Fernandes' psychology lab, and Edith Law's HCI lab) involves designing innovative interactive systems for education and cognitive health at all ages, with the singularity of leveraging intrinsic motivations (self-determination and curiosity) as reinforcers of human performance.

Head of an Associate Inria Team (2014 et 2015) -  OPALI team with the universit-trois rivières, Canada (2013-15) : joint scientific project management, supervision, administrative tasks, annual reporting and associated website

Member of the Young Researchers Committee for the BSO Inria centre (2015-18) : I participated in the review of applications and selection for funding of PhD and postdoctoral students for the Inria Bordeaux center.

Advisory support for writting the 2025 Disability Road Map for inria (research part) 

Member of WG GT Instruction projet Inria (STARS), en 2024

Member of selection committe at Inria  : 1)  for 5 Starting Research positions  in2020 ; 2) Adm Jury Admission–concours CR et « Starting /Advanced Research position » Inria, 2021

(Co-) supervizor of research join MITACS programs (2021) with Pr. M. Fernandes for supervizing PhD thesis of Yadu Sivashankar (PhD student in Psychology).

Member of the Direction Committee of  IFR Handicap (Inserm) labelled Fedhra since 2023, since 2019

Member of the Direction Committee of BIND - centre d’excellence BIND de Bordeaux, since 2019

Resp. of Research Axis on Innovating  Interventions at ACTIVE Team (BPH Lab), since 2022 

Member of the Direction Committee of LILLAB living lab for fostering R&D on Digital solutions for neurodiversity  (2020- 23)

Member of the Direction Committee of BPH Lab (Inserm-UB) and of  Département Recherche Santé Publique (UB) (2019-21)

Team leader of HACS team at  BPH Lab (Inserm-UB), until 2021

(Co-) PI of research join programs 

• Idex Join Program UB-University of Waterloo (Canada) - Aging axis (2015-16 ; 2016-17 ; 2017-18), Co-PI.:   M. Fernandes & H. Sauzéon.

• CoOP Program - University of Waterloo-Canada – (2017-18), co-PI M. Fernandes & H. Sauzéon.

• Albert Schweitzer Award (2019) – 3 month stays of Martina Parizkova, PhD. in Neuroloy, PI. : 

• Idex Join Program UB-University of Waterloo (Canada) - Projects in the field of AI and health sciences : « Curiosity-driven learning and personalized (re-)education technologies across the lifespan », Co-PI : E. Law, PY Oudeyer, H. Sauzéon & F. Lotte

(Co-) PI of research programs 

• AAP Interdisciplinaire TCAN- La réalité virtuelle comme outil d’évaluation et de remédiation d’erreurs cognitives. Co-PI: . B. N’Kaoua & H. Sauzéon, 2004

• AAP 2013 Région Aquitaine - DomAssist .Co-PI C. Consel & H. Sauzéon

• AAP 2014 - Fondation Orange : TSA - Technologies for children with ASD", Co-PI :   H. Sauzéon & C. Consel

• AAP 2014- Région Aquitaine- Santé durable –DomAssist 500.H. Sauzéon & C. Consel

• AAP 2015/16 FEDER –Inria : DomAssist500 (1200K€ demandés), co-PI:  C. Consel & H. Sauzéon. C

• AAP 2016-20– Fondation Recherche Médicale : DomAssist500, PI: . H. Sauzéon

• AAP 2019-22 - FIRAH Design and Assessment of technology supporting co-education of children with ASD. PI H. Sauzéon.

• AAP Inria-Region NA ESR2020-23 Digital adaptive system for  cognitive training, PI: H. Sauzéon

• AAP Projet Inria-Region NA ESR2021-24 Design and Assessment of technology supporting co-education of children with ASD., PI: H. Sauzéon

• AAP AEx Inria 2023 – IAM The Impact of Augmented Reality on Autobiographical Memory, co-PI: . P. Dragicevic & H. Sauzéon 

• France 2030 - PPR AUTONOMIE : Vieillissement Et Situations De Handicap - Projet INNOVCare (Lechevalier S., 3,5M€) (2023-26) - WP5 Two care-led innovation experiments with assistive technologies, Resp. WP5 :  H Sauzéon (750k€ dont 485k pour Bordeaux).

• AAP2024 ORA Open Research Area for the Social Sciences Eighth Call. Projet DevCur : How curiosity enhances learning across childhood and adolescence: The role of metacognition and agency. Applicant France: Pierre-Yves Oudeyer & H. Sauzéon (INRIA, Bordeaux, France) / Applicant Germany: Yana Fandakova (Trier University, Trier, Germany) / Applicant United Kingdom: Matthias Grüber (Cardiff University, UK)

• Projet VBHI21 (Vascular Brain Health Institute -IHU, S.  Debette) – Resp. WP4.3 Explore Digital Therapeutics To Slow Down Cognitive Decline In Covert Csvd, Resp.. H. Sauzéon

 Member appointed to Pluridisciplinary committee (Digital sciences and Humanities) of French National agency for Research (CES 38 -Interface ANR),  since 2023

 Member appointed to Pluridisciplinary committee (Health sciences and Digital and technology sciences) of French National agency for Research (CES 19 -TECSAN ANR),  from 2017 to 2020. 

Member appointed to Pluridisciplinary committee of  "Fonds Rech. Québec" for assessing the "Quebec Network for Aging Research",  in 2

Member appointed to HCERES committees for Lab assessments :  LP3C (Rennes, 2021) and  ChArT (Paris, 2024).

Member appointed to Scientific committee of  Fondation Clément Fayat (non profit organization supporting aging research), since 2022

Member of Scientific Committees of conferences: International Conference on Advances in Computer-Human Interactions (since 2022) Conference “ITASD: digital solutions for people with Autism” (Paris-Oct. 2014); Journées d'étude du vieillissement cognitif (Bordeaux, 2000, Marseille 2004, Tours 2012, Caen 2014, Bordeaux 2016, Chambery, 2018, Lyon 2021; Tours 2023); VIèmes Journées jeunes chercheurs en Sciences cognitives (Bordeaux 2005), ARCo'08 (Lyon 2008).

Member of selection committes : Research referent for 2 lecturer positions in psychology at UB, External member of 5 lecturer positions in psychology; Internal member of 1 professor position in psychology; Jury member for Research Director  (Univ. G. Eiffel) in 2023; member of the MSCA COFUND SOUND.AI program  (Prog. Européen Sorbonne Uni) in 2023 

Article Reviewing for Journals and Conferences : Nature communication in Psychology,  Brain & Language ; Psychonomic Bulletin & Review ; Gerontology ; BMC Geriatrics ;  Cyberpsychology & Behavior ; Applied Psycholinguistics, European Review of Applied Psychology ; Exp. Aging Research, Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research,  L’Année Psychologique; Psychology & Aging; Acta Psychologica, British Journal of Psychology, Gerontology, Journal of Cognitive Psychology, PlosOne, Memory & Cognition, Aging, Neuropsychology & Cognition, International Journal of Environmental Research & Public Health ; Scientific Report ; British Journal of Educational Technology; Memory & Cognition, Annals of Physical and Rehabilitative Medecine, Motivation & Cognition ; Cognition & Emotion ; Frontiers in psychatry ; Gerontechnology Journal ; Gérontologie et société – Journal de la CNSA,  Scientific Report ; Digital Health; Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences; ; ACM IDC23) ;New ideas in Psychology ; Enviro, nment &Behavior ; Computer in human behavior ; Conférences: IHM ;  ACM-CHI. ACM IDC.