Hi there!👋   I’m currently a Postdoc Researcher at CEA Paris-Saclay, working with Dr. Alexei Grinbaum on the AIOLIA Project (check it out!). My work spans topics in applied ethics, including philosophy of technology, philosophy of emotions, and privacy, and mainly addresses issues in normative and practical ethics of new and emergent technologies, specifically the ones at play in human-computer interactions and in the development of emotional AI.

Before that, I was a PhD researcher at Leiden University under the supervision of Prof Dorota Mokrosinska and Prof James McAllister, working on privacy and social issues in affective computing.

In my PhD research, I investigated the social implications of AI artefacts that detect, recognise, and analyse peoples’ emotions. What if we had easy access to real-time recognition of emotions? How would this impact the social dynamics? In which contexts would this be desirable and in which contexts would this be detrimental? Do we have any legitimate claims to privacy over the emotions we display in public social settings? My main objective was to analyse the social effect that emotion recognition technologies (ERTs) will have on human relationships and the Self. The central aim was to go beyond current work that has pinpointed the consequences (and potential harms) that directly arise from their technical limitations - such as gender bias and group discrimination - and to explore the fundamental issues raised by the exposure and commodification of the affective life. To do so I adopted an anticipatory approach informed by empirical research to develop technomoral scenarios that reveal the ethical risks of using emotion recognition technology (ERT) as a type of decision support system in human-human relations. I further explored the implications of this new practice for mainstream conceptions of (social) privacy and, drawing on conceptual engineering theories, suggested the recognition of ‘emotional privacy’ as a sub-concept of privacy and deemed it necessary to provide adequate protection against the pervasive effects of ERTs.

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Articles, Podcasts, and News About my Research

🗣️ Comment les machines détectent nos émotions (2026) / 🧔🏻‍♂️Journalist: Xavier de La Porte

📝 Pourra-t-on vivre sans intelligence artificielle ? (2026) / By Thomas Allard News Article

🦾 AI en emotieherkenning: ‘Kan ons sociale verkeer ontregelen’ (2025) / By Myrthe Timmers News Article

🎥 Contextual Integrity & Socially Disruptive Technology (2024) / 🔴 ▶️ YouTube Video

🗣️ Parlons Éthique (2021) / 🧔🏻‍♂️Podcast Animator: Keven Bisson

🎭 False Emotions (2021) / By Raymond Poirier News Article

🤖 Émotions, Contexte et IA: facile de se tromper (2021) / By Thot Cursus News Article