Laure Tabouy, PhD 💚

About

I am a neuroscientist and ethicist, researcher, lecturer in ethics within the Master's in AI Law at the Institut Catholique de Paris, and a certified Digital Ethics Officer from EDHEC BS (2023). I am a TEDx speaker. I gave my first TEDxSaclay talk in 2024 on the challenges of generative AI (https://tedxsaclay.com/fr/editions/entre-visible-et-invisible/intervenants/laure-tabouy). I hold a PhD in neuroscience from Université Paris-Cité (2012), and a master's degree in ethics from Université Paris-Saclay (2021). My career as a neuroscience researcher initially focused on genetic and epigenetic regulation during neurodevelopment. I broadened my thematic scope to include the role of the intestinal microbiota and the gut-brain axis in autism during my post-doctorate in Israel at Bar-Ilan University and on my return to Paris in 2018, until 2021. Since 2021, I have been engaged in a 2nd PhD in ethics / neuroethics at the Centre Gilles Gaston Granger (UMR 7304) at the Université l'Aix-Marseille and Paris-Saclay University. Through her work, she reflects on how to define and implement “neuroethics by design” approach for AI-connected neurotechnologies, and on the challenges of the convergence of neuroscience with digital technology. I build bridges between the worlds of academic and institutional research, in the service of society, human beings and the common good. I am a European Expert, and operational digital reservist at DGNum, Ministry of the Armed Forces.

Experience

• Réserviste opérationnelle du numérique at Commissariat au Numérique de Défense - CND
  May 2025 - Present · 1 yr 3 mos

  https://www.defense.gouv.fr/dgnum/rejoignez-numerique/reserviste-operationnel-numerique https://www.defense.gouv.fr/amiad-agence-ia-defense

• Researcher, 2nd PhD candidate in philosophy / ethics and Neuroethics - ethics of neurotechnologies at Centre Gilles Gaston Granger/ CGGG
  Nov 2021 - Present · 4 yrs 9 mos

  https://theses.fr/s408227 University Aix-Marseille, Centre Gilles Gaston Granger, https://www.cggg.fr/ University Paris-Saclay, INSERM, CESP-U1018, the Paris Ethics Center, Paris, France. https://cesp.inserm.fr/fr/equipe/recherches-en-%C3%A9thique-et-en-%C3%A9pist%C3%A9mologie

• Lecturer in ethics / neuroethics and digital ethics / AI ethics / DATA ethics at Institut Catholique de Paris
  Mar 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 5 mos

  in Master of Artificiel Intelligence law and bachelor of law

• Lecturer, Consultant in digital ethics / neuroethics - research ethics / AI ethics / DATA ethics at Self-employed
  Sep 2018 - Present · 7 yrs 11 mos

  Since September 2018: Scientific Project manager and leader of international research group on Ethical and Legal issues in Neurosciences and Neurotechnologies

• Researcher and project manager in neurosciences and ethics / in digital AI ethics at AGENCE DE LA BIOMEDECINE
  Oct 2023 - Oct 2024 · 1 yr 1 mo