I build the data infrastructure that connects AI agents to premium, rights-respecting knowledge sources.

I’m Head of AI Solutions at Alien Intelligence. My job is to make the world’s most valuable knowledge — scientific research, cultural heritage, media — usable by AI agents on the source’s terms: rights preserved, provenance intact, institutions credited and compensated.

Three projects carry that work today:

• OpenAIRE MCP — connecting AI agents to the OpenAIRE Research Graph and its 150M+ scientific records through the Model Context Protocol.
• Gallica / BnF — making Gallica usable by AI with the Bibliothèque nationale de France: MCP access, AI-extracted corpuses, agentic services for the library’s clients.
• LDS — the core AI technology of the European legal data space: data and agents for legal professionals, starting with the CNB ecosystem.

Why this, why me

This is less a pivot than a continuation. I spent eighteen years building digital services and shared data infrastructure, mostly for mobility: open standards for Mobility-as-a-Service in France, moB — Mon Compte Mobilité, the 30 LEV field trial — always with the same cast of cities, ministries, operators and startups who needed data to flow between organisations without anyone being locked in or strip-mined.

That is exactly the problem AI has now. Agents need access to high-quality knowledge; the institutions that hold it need contracts, attribution and revenue — not bulk scraping. The discipline I learned in mobility — open standards, multi-stakeholder governance, infrastructure that aligns public missions with private incentives — is the discipline this moment needs.

Elsewhere

I teach at French engineering and business schools — ESTACA, Télécom Paris, École des Ponts among others — on AI, autonomous mobility and digital infrastructure. I speak at conferences on AI, mobility and open science — see Publications for the catalogue and Archive for press and third-party coverage. I contribute to AFNOR working groups on mobility standards.

I live in Chambéry, in the French Alps, and work remotely and on-site across Europe.

Work with me

If you run an institution sitting on valuable knowledge and are wondering what AI should mean for it — or you’re building agents that need better sources than the open web — get in touch.