Alexis Champion, PhD
Founder and Director of iRiS Intuition
Alexis Champion holds a PhD in Computer Science, specialising in
Artificial Intelligence. For twelve years, he worked first as a
researcher and subsequently as an IT project director in public and
private research laboratories, as well as in IT service companies.
Alongside this career, from 2001 to 2008, he devoted himself to the
scientific study of intuitive phenomena at the IMI, a French foundation
officially recognised as serving the public interest, of which he later
became Director.
In 2007, he introduced remote viewing and the structured applications of
conscious intuition in France. Since then, he has collaborated with
several pioneers in the field, including researchers Stephan Schwartz
and Dale Graff, and trained with former US military remote viewers Paul
H. Smith and Lyn Buchanan.
Alexis is the founder and Director of iRiS Intuition, a company
dedicated to the practical application, teaching and scientific
investigation of intuition. Since 2008, iRiS has worked across a wide
range of fields, including industry, banking and finance, archaeology
and history, energy, legal investigations, management and the arts.
iRiS specialises in decision support in situations of uncertainty or
urgency, as well as creativity and innovation. Alexis’s main areas of
research and engagement include the complementary use of analytical
reasoning and intuition, the study of perception and consciousness,
human–machine differences and collaboration, and the conditions that
foster human physiological and cognitive excellence.
 From 2015 to 2019, he taught Innovation Management on the Bachelor’s
degree programme in International Business Development jointly run by
AFPI and Pierre and Marie Curie University (Paris 6). He also lectured
on intuition and RV as part of the University Diploma in “Trance and
Altered States of Consciousness” at Paris 8 University.
Alexis co-supervised Pierre-Michael Micaletti’s doctoral research (
https://theses.fr/2025PA080053Â ) on Controlled Remote Viewing (CRV) as
an atypical form of information-seeking behaviour in the age of the
information society and artificial intelligence. The thesis was defended
at Paris 8 University in 2025.
Together with Marie-Estelle Couval, he co-authored Guide de poche de
l’intuition (The Pocket Guide to Intuition), published by Leduc S. He
also contributes regularly to the manga series Blitz, published by IWA.
