Breaking down discipline barriers: an interview with Maël Lebreton on starting a career in an interdisciplinary field

Abstract

Dr Maël Lebreton is about to set up his own lab at the Paris School of Economics, in September 2021, thanks to an ERC Starting Grant. In the meantime he holds a part-time position at the Swiss Center for Affective Science at the University of Geneva in Switzerland, where he has been a Senior Research Associate since 2018. Mael originally obtained a B.Sc and MSc in Biosciences from the Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, and a PhD in Cognitive Neurosciences from Université Pierre et Marie Curie Paris 6 (now Sorbonne Université) in 2013. He then moved to the University of Amsterdam, where he spent over 4 years as a postdoc at the Center for Research in Experimental Economics and Political Decision-Making at the Faculty of Economics and Business. This is where he truly began his independent research career.