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.

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ORCID: ORCID 0000-0003-4820-7951
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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

2026

The European Journal of Psychiatry

Fongaro E, Carlier A, Vauclare A, Brisot-Dubois J, Huzard D, Caci H, Kerbage H, Purper-Ouakil D

psychiatryADHDquestionnaireclinical-research doi.org/10.1016/j.ejpsy.2025.100333 Source

Data welfare is animal welfare: Building a WellFAIR research ecosystem

2026

Neuroscience Applied

Petit-Demoulière B, Huzard D

WELLFAIRmetadataanimal-welfareFAIR doi.org/10.1016/j.nsa.2026.106998 Source

Data Sharing and Metadata

2026

Home Cage Monitoring in Rodents: A Global Effort

Forrest H, Huzard D, Restivo L, Baran SW, Petit-Demoulière B

HCMFAIRmetadatadata-sharing doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-19781-8_10 Source

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Recent talks

Talks

WELLFAIR – 'Data Care' is the New Frontier of Animal Welfare

Tue Jun 09 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

Webinar TEATIME Webinar

Towards reproducible and FAIR preclinical research: modernizing metadata management

Thu Nov 27 2025 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

Webinar Metadata management dissemination

Metadata as a New Approach Methodology for Virtual Control Groups in Preclinical Research

Thu May 28 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

Oral ScandLAS Meeting 2026

Data Is Nothing Without Context: How Metadata Makes AI Useful, Reliable, and 3Rs-Compatible

Thu Jun 25 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

Oral Workshop DVC Lyon — Lyon

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Selected work

Projects

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Damien Huzard

Expertise

Behavior research

Physiology & somatosensation

FAIR metadata & data engineering

Papers

Discriminative utility and limitations of the strengths and difficulties questionnaire for ADHD in a referred clinical pediatric sample

Data welfare is animal welfare: Building a WellFAIR research ecosystem

Data Sharing and Metadata

Talks

WELLFAIR – 'Data Care' is the New Frontier of Animal Welfare

Towards reproducible and FAIR preclinical research: modernizing metadata management

Metadata as a New Approach Methodology for Virtual Control Groups in Preclinical Research

Data Is Nothing Without Context: How Metadata Makes AI Useful, Reliable, and 3Rs-Compatible

Projects

MAPP — MetaDatApp

NeuroNautix

HCM Ontology Mapper

Recent writing