Professional Activities

  • Scientific Organizations


President of the Economic Science Association (ESA) (2021-2023); President Elect (2019-2021); Vice-President Europe (2012-2016); member of the Executive Committee (2010-2016)

Member of the Advisory Board of the University of Lyon and the Foundation for the University of Lyon (Comité d’Orientation Stratégique) (2018-)

President of the French Economic Association (AFSE) (2010-2011) and member of the executive committee (2002-2012)

Founding President of the French Association of Experimental Economics (ASFEE) (association founded in 2008), Honorary President

Member of the Executive Committee of the European Association of Labour Economists (EALE) (1993-2001; 2017-2019); Treasurer of EALE (1998-2001); Chair of the EALE Nomination Committee (2001-2011); Fellow of the EALE

Member of the Executive committee and the Scientific committee of the CORTEX Laboratory of Excellence (Construction, Cognitive Function, Rehabilitation and Repair of the Cortex) (CORTEX 1: 2012-2019; CORTEX-2: 2019-).

Vice-President of the Scientific Committee of the “Journées de l’Economie” JECO (2007-)

Member of the Scientific Committee of Groupe des Écoles Nationales d'Économie et Statistique (GENES) (2017-)

Member of the Advisory Board of the Institute for Behavioral Economics, Copenhagen (2020-)

Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the GLO Virtual Young Scholars Program (2018-)

Member of the Executive Committee of the Association for the Development of Research in Economics and Statistics (ADRES) (2010-2015)

Director of the GATE Research Institute (2007-2015). Member of its Executive Committee (1997-2015). Head of the research group “Micro-economics of Labor and Employment” (1997-2006).


  • Research programs


Reviewer for the French Agency for Research (ANR), the French Ministry of Defence (DGRIS), the European Science Foundation, the European Research Council, the National Science Foundation (U.S.A.), the Sloan Foundation, the Israel Science Foundation, the US-Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF), the British Academy, the FNRS (Belgium), the FNR (Luxemburg), the Austrian Science Fund (Austria), the Danish Agency for Science, the Czech Science Foundation Fonds de Recherche du Québec (FRQ), the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research NWO (The Netherlands), the Swiss National Foundation, the Royal Society Te Apārangi (New-Zealand), the Philip Leverhume Prize, the PSL Excellence Program.

Member of the ESF College of Expert Reviewers

Member of the International Cooperation Program PICS France-China (CNRS) (2010-2013) and of the CHINEQ International Associated Laboratory (CNRS, Beijing Normal University) (2014-2017)

Scientific Committee Travail-Emploi-Redistribution at the Commissariat Général du Plan (1994-2003)

Co-organizer of the Behavioral and Experimental Economics (BEE) workshop Lyon-Toulouse School of Economics (2010-2017)

Chair of the Program Committee of the 5th Congress of the French Experimental Economics Association (ASFEE), Lyon, 2013 and 2020

Chair of the Program Committee of the 63rd Congress of the French Economic Association (AFSE), Lyon, 2014; and member of the program committee of AFSE Conferences (2002-2015, 2018)

Program Committees of the Conferences organized by: European Association of Labour Economists (2012-), Asian and Australasian Society of Labour Economics (AASLE), INFER (2018), Journées Louis-André Gérard-Varet (2012, 2015-), ASFEE (2009-), ADRES Doctoriales (2012-2014), French Network on Experimental Economics (2002-2008), Joint conference of the Society for the Advancement of Behavioral Economics and International Association for Research in Economics and Psychology (2006)

Jury of the Diligentia Prize

Jury for the best PhD thesis award in economics given by the Association Française de Science Economique (2002-2012)

Jury for the best paper awarded to a young economist (Malinvaud Prize) by the French Economic Association (AFSE) (2014-2015)

Jury for the best paper awarded by the French Association of Experimental Economics (ASFEE) (2016-2020)


  • Evaluation and recruitment

Advisory Board of the Max Planck Institute in Economics, Jena (2008-2013) and Munich, Germany (2017-2022)

Appointment Commission of the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Bonn (2020-2021)

Scientific Board of the Thurgau Institute of Economics at the University of Konstanz (2013-2021)

Scientific Advisory Board of the department of economics at the University of Gothenburg (2019)

Evaluation committee of the department of economics at the University of Innsbruck (2014)

National Committee of the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and its Bureau (2000-2004; 2008-2012)

Group of Advisers at the French Ministry of Education and Research, Economics (2004-2011)

Reviewer for A&M Texas University, Aarhus Business School, the Universities of Amsterdam, Carnegie Mellon, Cologne, East Anglia, Florida State, Koc Istanbul, Innsbruck, Lausanne, Melbourne, Nanyang Technology University Singapore, New-York University Abu Dhabi, Santa Barbara, Tilburg, Trento, UT Dallas, University of Southern California, Vienna

President of the jury of the International MBA program, Executive EMBA program and Programme Général de Management, EM Lyon Business School (2009-2016)

Recruitment Committees at the Universities of Lyon 2 (2000-), Aix-Marseille (2012, 2014), Montpellier 1 (2004-2008, 2011, 2016), Rennes (2009), St Etienne (2009, 2011), Université de Lausanne (2018) and at the University of Aarhus, Denmark (2007)

Doctoral Program Committee in Economics and Management University of Lyon

(2005-2007; 2012-2015) and at University of Aix-Marseille (2012-2015)

Department Council of Mathematics, University Lyon 1 (2009-2015)