I am now an ATER at the Sport department of Le Mans Université, where I am working on embodied decision-making and predictive control.
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"We were not born to think. We were born to move." — Koziol et al. (2012)
This idea sits at the core of how I approach decision-making. Rather than treating cognition as something that happens "before" and separately from action, I study the two as inseparable: our movements, such as a hand reaching, a sprinter's anticipatory lean or a goalkeeper diving before the ball arrives, carry the trace of the decision process itself, often before we could report it in words.
A dual PhD between Rouen Normandy and Chieti–Pescara gave me a foundation spanning sport science and behavioral/cognitive science. A postdoctoral fellowship with Giovanni Pezzulo's team at ISTC-CNR (Rome) sharpened my focus on predictive processing and active inference. I now continue this work as an ATER at Le Mans Université (STAPS), in an environment where perception-action coupling is studied directly in the context of skilled movement and sport.
What ties this trajectory together is a conviction: that if we want to understand how people decide, we have to look at how they move while deciding — and eventually, be able to formalize that process in models that make predictions, not just descriptions.
A multiplayer economic game pitting financial reward against social power, to ask which one people actually chase — and what the hesitation in their mouse movements reveals about the answer.
A two-player grid-based game where dyads have to coordinate, without talking, to collect a shared set of colored gems as efficiently as possible. *(Ongoing project — data collection and analysis in progress.)*
A virtual ball-catching game in which players intercept moving targets under manipulated gravity and visual occlusion, designed to test whether the brain predicts hidden motion using built-in physical priors.
A research-based reinterpretation of the classic Flappy Bird, used to study when and why people choose to keep trying — or give up — in effortful, goal-directed tasks.
