10 years of the AXA Chair in Neuroscience

AXA CHAIR IN NEUROSCIENCE

The “Neuroergonomics for Aviation Safety” Chair, created and directed by Professor Frédéric Dehais, is the result of collaboration between the AXA Research Fund, ISAE-SUPAERO and its foundation. It marks a major step forward in understanding the effects of stress on pilots’ brains, a crucial factor in ensuring flight safety.

Since its creation, the AXA – ISAE-SUPAERO Chair has integrated the most advanced techniques in neuroscience, mobile brain imaging and artificial intelligence to explore the functioning of the “brain at work”, both in the laboratory and in real flight conditions.

The research carried out has led to significant advances in pilot support, enabling the deciphering of critical phenomena such as persistence in human error or deafness to auditory alarms, but also to concrete applications outside aviation, with significant advances made in the field of brain-computer interfaces and the use of mobile sensors, offering excellent prospects for clinical applications.

Photo credits: Louis Derigon/ ISAE-SUPAERO

” In the space of a decade, this Chair has demonstrated the transformative power of long-term thinking, laying the foundations for profound advances in air safety and opening up promising prospects for the next 10 years. We are very grateful to the AXA Research Fund for showing that research backed by a long-term vision can respond to major industrial and societal challenges. “Agnès Trincal, Director of the ISAE-SUPAERO Foundation.

Find out more about the chair :

• Celebrating 10 years of progress in neuro-ergonomics at ISAE-SUPAERO