“Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”

Albert Einstein.

I am a doctor in particle physics and currently a postdoctoral researcher at HMEI (Princeton University) with Simon Levin, in the field of complex science approached with physics and data analysis insights. I aim at understanding what properties of socio-ecological systems favor their resilience or their collapse. 

I formalize these properties in terms of critical transitions (in the sense of sudden regime shift), network structure, and collective behavior. For example, I use modeling and sophisticated statistical analysis on large datasets to characterize early warning signals of transitions. My current case studies deal with an online reddit experiment, the moisture network in the rainforest, and the structure of cooperative behavior. 

My previous research regards the weak and strong interactions that govern the dynamics of particles at and above the hadronic energy scale. To that goal, I used mesons containing a b quark and high-energy partons created in collisions at the LHC at CERN. During my PhD, I focused on the quark-gluon plasma and its effect on these particles.

I was previously a postdoctoral researcher in Subatech (Nantes, France) with François Arleo. I worked as a PhD student at Laboratoire Leprince Ringuet (École Polytechnique, France), under the supervision of Raphaël Granier de Cassagnac and François Arleo. I was a member of the CMS Collaboration at CERN from 2019 to 2022. Before my PhD, I was a research intern at CERN with the LHCb Collaboration, and at SLAC in Stanford University. 

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