What is the HAL Ambassadors program?
What is the HAL Ambassadors program?
In June 2022, the CCSD launches a program “Ambassadors of HAL” with the ambition to nourish the dialogue between the CCSD and the scientific community.
This program aims to :
- To make go back up the problems/needs of the scientific communities with regard to HAL in order to improve and to make evolve the service given by the platform HAL;
- To participate to make progress in the practices as regards open science and use of the platform HAL.
Become a HAL Ambassador
This program has vocation to develop in the next months. You are a junior researcher and wish to join it ? Do not hesitate to contact us to tell us more about you, your commitment in favour of the open Science and your interest for HAL and the missions of the CCSD!
Fabien Bièvre-Perrin
Fabien Bièvre-Perrin
HAL Ambassador
Senior lecturer at the Université de Lorraine, within the HisCAnt-Ma laboratory
Visiting researcher at Centre Jean Bérard
“My work focuses on funerary practices and iconography in Magna Graecia and Illyria from the 8th to the 3rd century BC (Feminicon project) and on the presence of antiquity in contemporary popular culture (Antiquipop project). I also work in digital humanities, on the use of new digital tools for the study of ancient ceramics as well as on the images right and open access in Humanities.”
Commitment to Open Science
“I strongly believe that it is fundamental to make open science a standard for research in France and more widely in Europe. Humanities and social sciences have to be more accessible to everyone, beyond the scientific community. The opening of research data and heritage images must accompany the open access dissemination of scientific works. For me, this is a strong democratic issue.”
HAL CV
Antiquipop Frontière·s
HisCAnt-Ma Feminicon
Frédéric Bousefsaf
Frédéric Bousefsaf
HAL Ambassador
Associate professor in the Laboratory of Design, Optimization and Modelling of Systems (LCOMS) – Université de Lorraine
Frédéric Bousefsaf received the BSc degree in Electronics and Computer Engineering from Université Henri Poincaré (Nancy, France) in 2008 and the BSc and MSc degrees in Cybernetics and Computer Vision from Université Paul Verlaine (Metz, France) in 2009 and 2011 respectively. He received the PhD degree in Image and Signal Processing from Université de Lorraine in 2014. He subsequently spent a year at the Université de Lorraine as a research and teaching assistant and two years as a postdoctoral researcher at the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA LIST, Paris-Saclay, France).
He is currently associate professor at the Université de Lorraine. His research interests include biomedical engineering, affective computing, image processing and artificial intelligence.
Frederic is the treasurer and an executive board member of the Institut Fédératif de Recherche sur les Aides Techniques pour personnes Handicapées (IFRATH) and one of the IFRATH representatives at the Association for the Advancement of Assistive Technology in Europe (AAATE). In this context, he has been organizing the national Handicap conference for several years.
Commitment to Open Science
Frédéric has been trying to promote, for several years now, Open Science and good practices related to research data, software and publications. He is, in this context, data ambassador for the Université de Lorraine since 2021.
HAL CV
Personal website
LCOMS Lorraine
Clara Galliano
Clara Galliano
HAL Ambassador
Doctoral student in Information and Communication Sciences at IMSIC UTLN-AMU laboratory
100% Temporary Research and Teaching Assistant at UFR Ingémédia of University of Toulon
“After having studied the scientific production based on the document (both as a medium of information and as a vehicle of scientific knowledge), I am now studying the teacher-researcher profession in the face of the new challenges that have arisen since the emergence of digital technology and the Open Science movement.
I try to understand how technology, tools and digital devices instrumentalize the profession and what is the role of the teacher-researcher in this system.’
Commitment to Open Science
“I discovered Open Science, and more specifically HAL, in 2018 during my research lab internship. While working on the bibliographic referencing of the scientific activity of teacher-researchers and their digital identity, I discovered an exciting topic that later became the subject of study for my PhD thesis. Since then, the HAL open archive is part of my daily life because I regularly help the members of my laboratory with the deposits.
I also try to apply my research to my university, in particular by carrying out a study on several laboratories and developing the local barometer so that my institution have a real policy in favor of Open Science in the long course.
For me, Open Science is not just a movement: it is a (new) way of doing science. And this ambassador status is a kind of recognition for my commitment and the work I have been doing for five years now.’
Contact Clara
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Egon Heuson
Egon Heuson
HAL Ambassador
Researcher at Centrale Lille
PhD in Organic Chemistry
“My research theme is mainly the valorisation of biomass, and in particular plant waste, for the production of new chemicals, either as an alternative to petro-sourced molecules, or for new applications in the various fields of chemistry. To do this, I am working on the discovery and development of new catalysts, both biological and chemical, to produce the latter. But above all I am working on the coupling of these two types of catalysts, as new hybrid catalytic processes, to make them more efficient and less energy and atom consuming for a greener chemistry.”
Commitment to Open Science
“I am particularly in favour of establishing a more open science for several reasons. Firstly, in France, researchers’ salaries are paid directly from public funds, and in doing so, citizens are our main employer. We owe them direct and free access to the results of our research. But above all, I am convinced that in order to continue to have an impact on society, science must now be disseminated and popularised as much as produced. Finally, and most importantly, for us researchers, in the paradigm of globalised research, it seems inconceivable to me that we can produce quality work without having free access to our peers’ work. I hope that becoming HAL ambassador will allow me to contribute to this diffusion by participating in the creation of adapted tools.”
Contact Egon
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UCCS Lille Centrale Lille
Teva Meyer
Teva Meyer
HAL Ambassador
Senior lecturer in Geography at the Université de Haute-Alsace
Member of the Centre for Research into Economies, Societies, the Arts and Associated Techniques (CRESAT-UR 3436)
“Holding a PHD from the French Institute of Geopolitics (Paris 8 University) my research focuses on the political dimensions of interactions between space and nuclear technologies. Broadly speaking, my work delves into the geographic conditions of possibility for energy transitions and my fieldwork spans from French Polynesia to western Europe and North America. Since 2021, I’m the Principal Investigator of an ANR research program called “NucTerritory”.”
Commitment to Open Science
“For me, Open science carries a double challenge. On the one hand, ensuring the greatest possible transparency on our work and on the conditions of its production and reproducibility is fundamental for the credibility of research in the social sciences and humanities. On the other hand, allowing the widest possible access to research is a fundamental condition for the vitality of scientific debates and their percolation in society.”
Contact Teva
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CRESAT
Amandine Wattelier-Bricout
Amandine Wattelier-Bricout
HAL Ambassador
PhD in Indology
Researcher within the ERC-DHARMA project at Humboldt University (Berlin)
Manager of the HAL-GREI collection
“PhD in Indology specialised in Sanskrit philology, I base my research on the critical edition of primary sources, both manuscript and epigraphic. From these sources, I analyse the narrative processes used in mythological and genealogical tales to legitimate a ritual, a dogma or a dynasty. One of my main research fields is the study of rituals, in particular those concerning donations and adoption. Currently a researcher within the ERC-DHARMA project at Humboldt University (Berlin), I am editing (in XML-TEI-Epidoc), translating and studying the epigraphic corpus belonging to the Somavaṁśin dynasty and issued from Orissa. In this context I am required to share my data and to prepare for reuse.”
Committment to Open science
“I consider knowledge to be a common good, so I am determined to open the teaching of sanskrit to a broader audience. Hence, all the courses I teach at the Institut des Langues rares (ILARA) are available online and dedicated to all beginners, no matter their education level. In order to offer educational resources in open access, I deposit my teaching material in the HAL open archive, as well as the synthesis given to the students.
I am truly convinced of the value of open science, so I pushed the creation of the HAL collection of my research unit, the Indian Studies research group GREI -EA2120. As the manager of this collection and a member of the GREI board, I seek to raise my colleagues’ awareness about the issues and the principles of Open Science, and to establish an Open Science culture among my unit.
By becoming an “HAL Ambassador”, I hope to get HAL widely known and to further the integration of the FAIR principles in my field, as well as to act as a bridge between researchers and the CCSD. Joining the Ambassadors network will also allow me to exchange with my peers from other fields, to enhance and complete my practice by their approach to Open Science.”
I am truly convinced of the value of open science, so I pushed the creation of the HAL collection of my research unit, the Indian Studies research group GREI -EA2120. As the manager of this collection and a member of the GREI board, I seek to raise my colleagues’ awareness about the issues and the principles of Open Science, and to establish an Open Science culture among my unit.
By becoming an “HAL Ambassador”, I hope to get HAL widely known and to further the integration of the FAIR principles in my field, as well as to act as a bridge between researchers and the CCSD. Joining the Ambassadors network will also allow me to exchange with my peers from other fields, to enhance and complete my practice by their approach to Open Science.”
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Trainings offered
ERC-DHARMA GREI-EA2120
Jonathan Zurbach
Jonathan Zurbach
HAL Ambassador
Doctoral student in Political Science as well as in Information and Communication Sciences at Avignon University
Member of LBNC (Laboratoire Biens Normes Contrats, EA 3788) and the Agorantic Research Federation (FR 3621)
“My research focuses on the examination of regulatory practices pertaining to data and research infrastructures within the humanities and social sciences. I am particularly interested in the methodological, professional and organisational transformations surrounding these regulations in the context of Open Science policy and personal data protection regulations.”
Commitment to Open Science
“My dedication to Open Science emerged during my graduate studies in Scientific and Technical Information. I wished to serve as a HAL ambassador during my PhD in order to actively contribute to the construction and expansion of this “common house of French research” provided by HAL, thus further strengthening my commitment.”
Contact Jonathan
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