Stéphanie Gauttier is an Associate Professor at GEM doing research at the intersection of information systems, human-computer interaction, and ethics. She is also the Research Team Leader for the "Information Systems and Society" group. She heads the research ethics committee of GEM.
Stéphanie specializes in qualitative methods, especially Q method. She received her PhD in Information Systems Management from the University of Nantes. She has a masters in Political Sciences and a masters in Communication Sciences, and over five years of experience in the marketing industry.
As a result, her research crosses disciplines and was applied to consumers (PhD), learners (EDUWORKS), and more recently to the healthcare domain (Responsible-Industry and GLASNOST).
In 2020, Stéphanie became vice-chair of the COST action ReMO (Researchers mental observatory, FP19117), a member of the OSCAR consortium (Erasmus +) and of the STREAM consortium (Shift2rail) in which she acts as ethical manager. She's a member of the executive committee of the I4S (International Society for the Scientific Study of Subjectivity).

She was awarded an individual Marie Curie fellowship in 2018, was nominated on the list of 400 women in the NL across all industries in the "bright mind" category in 2018, and received the Brenner award for her work in Q-methodology in 2019.