Olivier Houde

Biography

Olivier Houdé received his Ph.D. in psychology in 1991 from the University of Paris Descartes ? Sorbonne and has been a professor there since 1995. He was also a guest professor at the University of Geneva from 1992 to 1995 and a junior member of the Institut Universitaire de France (IUF) from 1997 to 2002. He received his M.Sc. in neuroscience in 1998 from the University of Claude Bernard (Lyon). He was awarded the Dagnan-Bouveret Prize of the French Academy of Moral and Political Sciences in 2002. He is the Editor-In-Chief of the Dictionary of Cognitive Science (New York, Routledge, 2004 ? E-Book, 2010). He is an exceptional-class professor at the University of Paris Descartes and a Senior member of the IUF since 2007. He is currently Director of the Laboratory for the Psychology of Child Development and Education (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris-Descartes and Caen Universities, Sorbonne-Paris-Cité Alliance for Higher Education and Research). He was awarded the Roberbal Prize in 2013 for his book ?The Child and the Screens? with J.F. Bach et al. from the French Academy of Sciences. Olivier Houdé is the author or co-author of 16 books and more than 300 scientific publications and communications

Research Interest

  Psychology