• Biography

Frédérique obtained her PhD in 1999 (Franche-Comté University), the year during which she was teacher and researcher assistants in the same university (2019-2020). She got a teacher position at the University Savoy Mont-Blanc in 2001 and then a permanent assistant professor position at the same University in 2003, where she defended her accreditation to supervise research (HDR) in 2019. As soon as she took up her function, Frédérique initiated, developed and directed the master's degree course "Engineering and Ergonomics of Physical Activities". With these 60 students per year and its very high employability rate, this degree is widely recognized by socio-professional and university environment. She was named Vice-Dean of the Inter-university Laboratory of Human Movement Biology in 2019, and dean for the Savoy location.

Her general research area investigates the human motor efficiency, i.e. the ability of an individual to obtain the higher motor performance with the lower energetical, muscular or mechanical cost. The proposed solutions can be modifications of both motor behavior and sports equipment. The originality of her approach is then to cross the physiological, muscular, biomechanical and technology factors in order to consider all the complexity of the human movement. Outdoor mountain sports have become her field of investigation, by the challenges they bring: sliding, positive or negative slope, variability and instability of the environment ... It must be said that the Savoyard framework lends itself well to this, with the surrounding mountains and the socio-economic partners.

All these research activities have been well funded (over 623 000 € until 2020 included), with private partners and academic institutions. Frédérique has supervised 11 PhD students and she served as an external reviewer for 14 PhD candidates. She had published 43 articles in indexed peer-reviewed journal (until march 2021).

Frédérique Hintzy (frederique.hintzy @ univ-smb.fr)

Phone: 04 79 75 81 34

Institution

Université Savoie Mont Blanc

(Chambéry)

Responsability

Deputy Director

Head of the Chambery site

Team: [SPIP]

Position 

Associate Professor

Publications