Neuro · physio · behaviorist · PhD
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. I developed the Ethical Debt of Preclinical Research framework in 2026, derived from the WellFAIR/data welfare concept co-developed with Benoit Petit-Demoulière.
What I do
Protocol design, automated phenotyping, home-cage monitoring, and reproducibility across species and labs.
ECG / HRV analysis, skin-nerve recordings, and bio-behavioral phenotyping of stress and autism models.
API-first metadata platforms, ontologies, JSON-LD, Python pipelines (Pandas, SciPy, Seaborn, statsmodels, DABEST).
Recent publications
The European Journal of Psychiatry
Fongaro E, Carlier A, Vauclare A, Brisot-Dubois J, Huzard D, Caci H, Kerbage H, Purper-Ouakil D
Zenodo
Huzard D, Bluchet A, Dunglas K
Neuroscience Applied
Petit-Demoulière B, Huzard D
Recent talks
Oral Workshop DVC Lyon — Lyon
Oral AFSTAL 2026
Webinar TEATIME Webinar
Webinar CPD Webinar – University of Luxembourg
Selected work
API-first platform for preclinical metadata management.
Framework connecting animal-research ethics with the stewardship and reuse of animal-derived evidence.
Consulting in behavioral research, home-cage monitoring, and FAIR metadata.
Map device outputs and labels to shared ontologies for comparability across home-cage monitoring systems.
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