• Complex Systems 🌀 interdisciplinary nerd with a particle physics ⚛️ background.

• Leader of the COOLNET project: Cooperation 🤝 in Large-scale NETworks, using a video game 🎮 to validate cooperation mechanisms experimentally!

• Now in SOHAM @ Trinity College & TU Dublin. 

• Formerly postdoc @ Princeton & PhD @ École Polytechnique.

I like: game theory, cooperation, networks, collective human behaviour, emergent phenomena, critical transitions, social tipping points, machine learning, particle physics, quark-gluon plasma

We are hiring a game designer now, closing date November 7th! See this job posting, or apply directly here (Vacancy ID 038706)

I am a doctor in particle physics and currently a Research Fellow in SOHAM (Centre for the Sociology of Humans and Machines), joint between TU Dublin and Trinity College Dublin. I play with complex systems approached with physics and data analysis insights. I lead the COOLNET project, looking for mechanisms that can promote cooperative behavior at large scales (lack of cooperation is the source of all environmental issues!). To measure their efficiency experimentally,  we are designing a massively multiplayer video game.

Before this, I was a postdoctoral researcher at HMEI (High Meadows Environmental Institute, Princeton University) with Simon Levin. I formalized properties of socio-ecological systems using critical transitions, network structure, and collective behavior. Some case studies are: early warning signals an online reddit game-experiment, the moisture network in the rainforest, or the structure of cooperative networks. 

My earlier research regards the weak and strong interactions governing the dynamics of sub-nucleus particles. I used mesons containing a b quark and high-energy partons created in LHC collisions at CERN. During my PhD, I focused on the quark-gluon plasma and its effect on these particles.

On my particle physics path, I analysed data from the LHCb (in my Masters) and CMS (in my PhD) experiments at LHC, and worked on energy loss phenomenology. I worked at CERN, SLAC (Stanford), École Polytechnique (Paris), and Subatech (Nantes, France). I owe a lot to my mentors on this path: Stefan Hoeche, Sascha Stahl, François Arleo, Raphaël Granier de Cassagnac, Simon Levin. 

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