Clément Moulin-Frier graduated with a PhD in the Engineering of Cognition, Interaction, Learning and Creation from the University of Grenoble in 2011. The focus of his research has primarily been on the emergence of social behaviours in populations of organic or artificial agents, employing an approach centred around computer simulation and modelling. In 2009, he spent time as a guest researcher at Michel Arbib’s laboratory at the University of Southern California.
After a period spent at the Collège de France in Paris, where he worked on probabilistic optimisation for biped robots, he joined the Flowers project team at the Inria Bordeaux - Sud-Ouest research centre, where he carried out research in the field of developmental robotics between 2011 and 2014. From 2015 to 2017 he worked at the SPECS laboratory in Barcelona (Synthetic, Perceptive, Emotive and Cognitive Systems Laboratory), during which time he took part in major EU projects in social robotics such as WYSIWYD and SocSMCs.
From 2017 to 2019 he was a researcher for the American artificial intelligence research company Cogitai (which has since become Sony AI America). He returned to Flowers in October 2019, this time as a permanent research fellow.