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Education

• Ph.D in Public Health & Epidemiology, Université Paris Descartes, Paris (2017)
• M.S. in Cognitive Scienes & Complex Systems, École Polytechnique, Palaiseau (2014)
• Engineering diploma, École Polytechnique, Palaiseau (2014)

Work experience

• September 2025 - Present: Associate Professor in Educational Sciences
  • IREDU, Université Bourgogne Europe
• December 2024 - August 2025: Post-doctoral fellow
  • LaRAC, Université Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble
  • Critical analysis of meta-analyses in education
  • With: Pascal Bressoux, Pascal Pansu, Laurent Lima
• 2018 - 2024: Research Fellow
  • SEED - UMR1284, INSERM-Université Paris Cité, CRI-Paris / Learning Planet Institute, Paris
  • Profs-Chercheurs: citizen science and collective intelligence for the educational sciences
• 2017 - 2018: Post-doctoral fellow
  • CRESS - UMR1153, INSERM-Université Paris Descartes, French Cochrane Center, Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris
  • Fragility index of meta-analyses
  • With: Philippe Ravaud, Isabelle Boutron, Raphaël Porcher

Publications

Atal, I., Dessus, P. (2025, in press). Comment les communautés d’amélioration en réseau créent et diffusent des connaissances à propos des pratiques éducatives ? Éducation & Didactique, 19-3, XX-XX. Rennes : Presses universitaires de Rennes.

Atal, I, Jeune, N., Gabard, C., Dessus, P., Pagnotta, M. (2025) Citizen science for educational sciences: engaging educators in the production of structured practice-based evidence at a large scale. Teacher Development, 1–22. doi: 10.1080/13664530.2025.2523359. Preprint available here

Jeune, N., Juhel, J., Dessus, P., & Atal, I. (2024). Six factors facilitating teachers’ use of research. An experimental factorial survey of educational stakeholders perspectives. Frontiers in Education, 9. doi: 10.3389/feduc.2024.1368565

Misevic, D., Atal, I., Bedard, D., Cherel, E., Escamilla, J., Evans, L., Hannon, V., Huron, C., Irrmann, O., Kizilcec, R., Lazega, E., Lemoie, K., Lindner, A., Macedo, M., Mainguy, G., Mann, R., Masselot, C., Michelucci, P., Nikolayeva, I., Ogan, A., Pérez-Sanagustín, M., Pescetelli, N., Poquet, S., Rafner, J., Regester, D., Santolini, M., Sevin, J.-M., Shahaf, D., Sherson, J., Smith, J., Söllner, M., Soulié, F., Taddei, F., Tupikina, L., & Van Der Leeuw, S. (2023). Harnessing collective intelligence for the future of learning – a co-constructed research and development agenda . Human Computation, 10(1), 1-30. https://doi.org/10.15346/hc.v10i1.141

Pagnotta, M., Jeune, N., de Nicola, M., Atal, I. (2022) The impact of the ‘Teachers as Researchers’ programme on educators’ sense of efficacy, practice, and collaboration at work: Results from implementation in France 2020-21. EdARxiv. doi: 10.35542/osf.io/brvkn.

Atal, I., Froidevaux, C., & Comité d'éthique pour les données d'éducation (2020) Enjeux d'éthique des usages des données numériques d'éducation dans le contexte de la pandémie. AVIS 2020-1. [Report] Ministère de l’Education Nationale, de la Jeunesse et des Sports, France.

Iudici, M., Puéchal, X., Brigante, A., Atal, I., Gabay, C. (2020) Randomized clinical trials in ANCA-associated vasculitis: a systematic analysis of the WHO - International Clinical Trials Registry Platform. Orphanet J Rare Dis., 15(130). doi: 10.1186/s13023-020-01408-6.

Yusuf, M., Atal, I., Li, J., Smith, P., Ravaud, P., Fergie, M., Callaghan, M., Selfe, J. (2020) Reporting quality of studies using machine learning models for medical diagnosis: a systematic review. BMJ Open. 10:e034568. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2019-034568.

Bertizzolo, L., Bossuyt, P.M., Atal, I., Ravaud, P., Dechartres, A. (2020) External factors may influence Cochrane reviewers when classifying the risk of bias of original reports. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 123:1-8. doi: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2020.03.008.

Iudici, M., Bafeta, A., Atal, I., Ravaud, P. (2018) Ten years of interventional research in systemic sclerosis: a systematic mapping of trial registries. Arthritis care & research. doi: 10.1002/acr.23817.

Bertizzolo, L., Bossuyt, P., Atal, I., Ravaud, P., Dechartres, A. (2019) Disagreements in risk of bias assessment for randomised controlled trials included in more than one Cochrane systematic reviews: a research on research study using cross-sectional design. BMJ Open, 1;9(4):e028382. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-028382.

Atal, I., Porcher, R., Boutron, I., Ravaud, P. (2019) The statistical significance of meta-analyses is frequently fragile: definition of a fragility index for meta-analyses. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 111:32-40 doi: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2019.03.012. This work received the David Sackett Young Investigator Award 2020

Lerner, I., Créquit, P., Ravaud, P., Atal, I. (2018) Automatic screening using word embeddings achieved high sensitivity and workload reduction for updating living network meta-analyses. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. doi: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2018.12.001.

Dechartres, A., Atal, I., Riveros, C., Meerpohl, J., Ravaud, P. (2018) Association Between Publication Characteristics and Treatment Effect Estimates: A Meta-epidemiologic Study. Annals of Internal Medicine. doi: 10.7326/M18-1517.

Yordanov, Y., Dechartres, A., Atal, I., Tran, V.T., Boutron, I., Créquit, P., Ravaud, P? (2018) Avoidable waste of research related to outcome planning and reporting in clinical trials. BMC Medicine. doi: 10.1186/s12916-018-1083-x.

Atal, I., Trinquart, L., Ravaud, P., Porcher, R. (2018) A mapping of 115,000 randomized trials revealed a mismatch between research effort and health needs in non-high-income regions. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. doi: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2018.01.006. This work received the David Sackett Young Investigator Award 2019

Zeitoun, J.D., Ross, J.S., Atal, I., Vivot, A., Downing, N.S., Baron, G., Ravaud, P. (2018) Factors Associated With Postmarketing Research for Approved Indications for Novel Medicines Approved by Both the FDA and EMA Between 2005 and 2010: A Multivariable Analysis. Clin Pharmacol Ther. doi: 10.1002/cpt.1038.

Zeitoun, J.D., Ross, J.S., Atal, I., Vivot, A., Downing, N.S., Baron, G., Ravaud, P. (2017) Postmarketing studies for novel drugs approved by both the FDA and EMA between 2005 and 2010: a cross-sectional study. BMJ Open. 7(12):e018587. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-018587.

Atal, I. (2017) Cartographie globale des essais cliniques [Doctoral dissertation, Université Paris Descartes] theses.fr http://www.theses.fr/2017USPCB071

Zeitoun, J.D., Baron, G., Vivot, A., Atal, I., Downing, N.S., Ross, J.S., Ravaud, P. (2018) Post-marketing research and its outcome for novel anticancer agents approved by both the FDA and EMA between 2005 and 2010: A cross-sectional study. Int J Cancer 142(2):414-423. doi: 10.1002/ijc.31061.

Dechartres, A., Trinquart, L., Atal, I., Moher, D., Dickersin, K., Boutron, I., Perrodeau, E., Altman, D.G., Ravaud, P. (2017) Evolution of poor reporting and inadequate methods over time in 20 920 randomised controlled trials included in Cochrane reviews: research on research study. BMJ 357:j2490. doi: 10.1136/bmj.j2490.

Dechartres, A., Bond, E.G., Scheer, J., Riveros, C., Atal, I., Ravaud, P. (2016) Reporting of statistically significant results at ClinicalTrials.gov for completed superiority randomized controlled trials. BMC Medicine<\i> 14(1). doi: 10.1186/s12916-016-0740-1.
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Atal, I., Zeitoun, J.D., Névéol, A., Ravaud, P., Porcher, R., Trinquart, L. (2016) Automatic classification of registered clinical trials towards the Global Burden of Diseases taxonomy of diseases and injuries. BMC Bioinformatics 17(392). doi: 10.1186/s12859-016-1247-7.

Dechartres, A., Ravaud, P., Atal, I., Riveros, C., Boutron, I. (2016) Association between trial registration and treatment effect estimates: a meta-epidemiological study. BMC Medicine 14(1). doi: 10.1186/s12916-016-0639-x.

Atal, I., Trinquart, L., Porcher, R., Ravaud, P. (2015) Differential Globalization of Industry- and Non-Industry–Sponsored Clinical Trials. PLoS ONE. 10(12): e0145122. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0145122.

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