Data welfare is animal welfare: Building a WellFAIR research ecosystem
2026Neuroscience Applied
Petit-Demoulière B, Huzard D
Neuro · physio · behaviorist · PhD
Damien Huzard
I help preclinical labs describe their animals, devices, and protocols well — so behavior research becomes reproducible, comparable, and reusable. Founder of MAPP and NeuroNautix; moderator of The Behaviour Forum.
- Google Scholar
- Google Scholar
- Location
- Montpellier, France
What I do
Expertise
Behavior research
Protocol design, automated phenotyping, home-cage monitoring, and reproducibility across species and labs.
Physiology & somatosensation
ECG / HRV analysis, skin-nerve recordings, and bio-behavioral phenotyping of stress and autism models.
FAIR metadata & data engineering
API-first metadata platforms, ontologies, JSON-LD, Python pipelines (Pandas, SciPy, Seaborn, statsmodels, DABEST).
Recent publications
Papers
Discriminative utility and limitations of the strengths and difficulties questionnaire for ADHD in a referred clinical pediatric sample
2026The European Journal of Psychiatry
Fongaro E, Carlier A, Vauclare A, Brisot-Dubois J, Huzard D, Caci H, Kerbage H, Purper-Ouakil D
Data Sharing and Metadata
2026Home Cage Monitoring in Rodents: A Global Effort
Forrest H, Huzard D, Restivo L, Baran SW, Petit-Demoulière B
Recent talks
Talks
Data Is Nothing Without Context: How Metadata Makes AI Useful, Reliable, and 3Rs-Compatible
2026-06-25Oral Workshop DVC Lyon — Lyon
Les métadonnées FAIR comme NAM permettant la création de groupes contrôles virtuels en Recherche Préclinique
2026-06-12Oral AFSTAL 2026
WELLFAIR – 'Data Care' is the New Frontier of Animal Welfare
2026-06-09Webinar TEATIME Webinar
Modernizing metadata management: from FAIR data to Virtual Control Groups
2026-06-05Webinar CPD Webinar – University of Luxembourg
Selected work
Projects
From the blog
Recent writing
- 2025-09-22 FAIRRR 5/5 — The 30‑Day Playbook to Adopt FAIRRR with MAPP A pragmatic rollout plan with roles, milestones, and proof points—so you can adopt FAIRRR in a month without boiling the ocean.
- 2025-09-21 FAIRRR 4/5 — Case Study: Home Cage Monitoring with MAPP + Ontology Mapping A concrete example: modeling devices, behaviors, and provenance in Home Cage Monitoring to unlock reuse, comparability, and fewer animals.
- 2025-09-20 FAIRRR 3/5 — Inside MAPP: API‑First Metadata for Reproducible Research MAPP turns scattered records into structured, shareable, machine‑readable metadata—operationalizing FAIRRR with standards, identifiers, and provenance.