The Ambassadors of HAL

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.

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Stéphane Greff

HAL Ambassador

Chemical engineer specializing in Metabolomics by mass spectrometry, Joint Service of the Mediterranean Institute of Biodiversity and Ecology (IMBE) in Marseille

Within IMBE (a multidisciplinary unit composed mainly of biologists and ecologists), I bring my expertise as an analytical chemist to the understanding of the functioning of Mediterranean marine and terrestrial ecosystems in the context of global change, in particular through the study of chemical processes (e.g. specialised metabolism, physiological defence, interactions between organisms). In this context, my activities are organised around two main themes: the administrative and technical management of the Joint Service of Metabolomics and Chemistry of Natural Substances, and my research and training activities.

Commitment to Open Science

It seems essential to me to share the data generated by the researchers and teacher-researchers of our units, so that it can benefit as many people as possible. Continuing my investment in the University of Aix Marseille, which began in 2016, I naturally want to continue to promote open science so that it becomes the standard in the scientific world.

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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.”

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Rafael Munoz-Tamayo

HAL Ambassador

Senior researcher at Systemic Modelling Applied to Ruminants (MoSAR) – Paris-Saclay University, INRAE, AgroParisTech

My research project aims to better understand the link between diet, microbiota and the host in ruminants via mathematical modelling. In particular, we pursue a mechanistic description of the dynamics of feed digestion by taking into account the fermentation pathways catalyzed by the rumen microbiome.

Commitment to Open Science

I am engaged in promoting open science practices. I am leading the international initiative Peer Community In Animal Science, under the umbrella of the parent project Peer Community In. I take part in dissemination and training initiatives to improve open science and help make open science “the new normal”. I am in charge of the Open Science Mission at the Graduate School Biosphera, Université Paris-Saclay.

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Pascal Quach

HAL Ambassador

Doctoral student in Complex systems engineering at the Industrial Engineering Laboratory (EA 2606) at CentraleSupélec

I work on the application of mathematical optimisation methods to improve the resilience of critical infrastructure to climate change. The methods studied are robust optimisation and reinforcement learning. The applications are diverse and can relate to both electrical systems and railway networks.

Commitment to Open Science

Having always been close to the free and open source software community, Open Science seemed obvious to me. As it is essential to provide a set of tools to meet the needs of researchers in Open Science, such as HAL, I wanted to contribute!

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