Since September 2021, Séverin is heading the Social Robotics group at PAL Robotics as a Senior Scientist. With his team, he design and program the social intelligence of PAL's robots, like ARI.
Previously, he was Associate Professor and Senior Research Fellow for the Bristol Robotics Lab at the University of the West of England, as well as being based at the University of Plymouth, EPFL in Switzerland, at LAAS-CNRS research institute, and at INRIA national institute for computing sciences. He hold a joint MSc in mechanical engineering from France (Diplôme d'ingénieur Arts et Métiers ParisTech) and Germany (Dipl. Ing. in Maschinenbau, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology). He also hold an MSc in Computer Sciences applied to Education from Université Paris 5.