The Ambassadors of HAL

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.”

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Cristelle Cavalla

Cristelle Cavalla

HAL Ambassador

Full Professor in Linguistic and applied linguistic, more specifically in French as a Foreign Language. Laboratory DILTEC EA2288, department DFLE at Université Sorbonne Nouvelle.

“My research work is about the teaching of the French lexicon to foreign learners. I especially focus on the lexicon of emotions and its general use in language teaching, as well as the use of transdisciplinary lexis to support academic writing. I use online tools such as digital corpora to carry out my work.”
Commitment to Open Science
“Working with many teachers abroad, I attach great importance to the accessibility of academic work in order to promote the dissemination and development of research in my field. The HAL, TEL and DUMAS platforms are invaluable resources for teachers and researchers in some countries of the world. With this in mind, I am participating in the HAL programme to contribute to the dissemination and visibility of science online, accessible to all.”

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Sophie Charles

Sophie Charles

HAL Ambassador

Teacher-lecturer, Educational sciences at BONHEURS EA 7517, CY Cergy Paris University

I spent 20 years teaching foreign languages in France and England to secondary and higher education students. I consolidated this experience scientifically by obtaining a Master’s degree in Educational Sciences, Multimedia Pedagogical Engineering and Research in Adult Education at the University of Lille in 2017. I then seized the opportunity offered by the e-FRAN EXAPP_3D project, through a doctoral contract, to continue my commitment to research in the field of education and training sciences in a thesis co-supervised by the BONHEURS Educational Sciences Laboratory and the QUARTZ Laboratory, specialising in complex systems engineering. At the end of this work, I was recruited as a contract teacher-researcher at the BONHEURS laboratory to teach in the ACREDITE and TECHEDU MEEF 4 distance learning masters and to continue my research.

Commitment to Open Science

Access to quality scientific resources is a matter of autonomy and development for scientific laboratories, their members and the institutions that host them. It is also a way of avoiding bias in research, which would otherwise be limited to free journals and publications subscribed to by university libraries. Joining the programme allows me to better support my laboratory in its commitment to open science.

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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.’

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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.”

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Nicolas Tixier

Nicolas Tixier

HAL Ambassador

Professor at the National School of Architecture of Grenoble (ENSAG) in the Theories and Practices of Architectural Design and Urban Planning, director of Cresson and adjunct director of the mixed research unit Ambiances, Architectures, Urbanités—Grenoble Alpes University

Nicolas Tixier is a government licensed (DPLG) architect with a Ph.D and an officially authorized research director. A professor at the National School of Architecture of Grenoble (ENSAG) in the Theories et Practices of Architectural Design and Urban Planning, he also teaches at the Annecy Alpes Art Academy and the Institute of Urban Planning and Alpine Geography, and is a researcher for Cresson. He also works as part of the collective BazarUrbain (winner of the 2007 Young Urban Planner Prize). From 2003 until 2010, he was project manager for the Office of Architectural, Urban, and Landscape Research at the French Ministry of Culture and Communication. He has been the Chair of the Grenoble Cinémathèque since 2009. In 2018, he became Director of Cresson and adjunct director of the UMR mixed research unit Ambiances, Architectures, Urbanités.

The fields he addresses in his research, projects, and teaching concern what we might categorize as a “public thing”, which is not understood as a thing per se, rather as a composition, a stage for action and for society. In his work on the urban and territorial condition, he makes use of the open field of ecology (the ecology of perception, social ecology, and environmental ecology) and the – by nature prospective and retrospective – field of the urban project (urban design and history) to develop methodological tools for approaching a site, producing and sharing its representations, and articulating its potential futures. His current work focuses on the urban transect as a field practice, representation technique, and approach to projects. Between heritage and fiction, he looks at territories and how they are fabricated through ambiances.

Commitment to Open Science
Open Science is one of the most exciting goals of recent years for the human and social sciences, both in terms of access to researchers’ publications and access to research data. Our laboratory, thanks to the help and energy of our librarians, is fully committed to this, supporting the HAL Open Archive and promoting open access to scientific publications, bibliodiversity and innovation. Contributing to the repositories of tomorrow is a bit like the feeling you get when you deposit your work in an open access repository.

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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.”
 

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Raphaëlle Yokota

Raphaëlle Yokota

HAL Ambassador

PhD in Japanese studies, Associate researcher at the French Research Institute on East Asia (IFRAE/UMR 8043)

Upon graduating in film studies and Japanese studies, I completed my PhD in Japanese Studies at the National Institute for Oriental Languages and Civilizations (Paris, France), which I defended in June 2022. My thesis examined the work of Japanese independent filmmaker Koreeda Hirokazu and questioned the potential of film in society, notably the notion of alternative point of view. At the crossroads of contemporary Japanese history, film studies and gender studies, my postdoctoral research focuses on women filmmakers in Japan between the feminist second wave in the 1970s and the MeToo years, combining prosopography, historiographical research and film analysis.

As a researcher in area studies, I started my PhD shortly before the beginning of pandemic and, like many of my colleagues, suddenly had limited access to resources. The centralization and free diffusion of scientific documentation then appeared to me as a necessity in order to guarantee an equal access to resources for all researchers, and enable the establishment of a community of researchers.

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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.”
 

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