The Team

Michel Morvan

Michel Morvan is professor of computer science at ENS Lyon, research director at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (School of High Studies in Social Sciences) in Paris and External Professor of the Santa Fe Institute.

His research took originally place in the context of theoretical computer science and discrete mathematics. Since the end of the 90s, they are oriented in the direction of complex systems - both with theoretical and applied point of views.

He created in Rhône-Alpes the "Institut des Systèmes Complexes - Complex Systems Institute" (IXXI), an interdisciplinary institute devoted to the study of complex systems, and is strongly involved in the process of structuring research in complex system at the French, European and international level.

Matthieu Latapy

Matthieu Latapy received his MS degree in Computer Science and his PhD in Algorithmics from University Paris Diderot (Paris 7), France. After a postdoc at INRIA, he obtained a CNRS permanent researcher position. He first joined the LIAFA, CNRS and University Paris Diderot, and later moved to LIP6, CNRS and University Pierre and Marie Curie (Paris 6), France. He leads the LIP6 team on Complex Networks.

The research conducted in this group is focused on real-world complex networks modeled as graphs, like internet topologies, web graphs, exchange graphs, or social networks. It has a strong interdisciplinary nature, dealing with both different topics in computer science (algorithmics, networking, visualization, ...) and different fields (computer science, mathematics, physics, social sciences, ...). Another original characteristic of this group is that it addresses all kinds of problems raised by real-world complex networks, from measurements to algorithmics, and including modeling and analysis.

Jean-Baptiste Rouquier

Jean-Baptiste Rouquier is a PhD candidate (this includes teaching duties) at École Normale Supérieure in Lyon and former student of this school. His research interests include cellular automata as a model of complex systems in fundamental research, and perturbations of complex systems (5 published articles).

His work in networks as a modelling tool yielded two published articles in scientometrics this year.

 

Jean-Philippe Cointet

Jean-Philippe Cointet is achieving a PhD at École Polytechnique about the co-evolution of social and knowledge dynamics in epistemic networks. His research interests focus both on the evolution of social networks and on information diffusion processes in the real-world networks. He has especially studied blog networks, and scientific networks.

Adrien Friggeri

Adrien Friggeri is a student at ENS Lyon whose interests lie in social networks and information diffusion. He has been blogging for a couple of years on computer sciences and programming. He is the designer of Happy Flu: a scientific experiment and yet at the same time a viral marketing operation and a collaborative artwork.

Jonathan Protzenko

Jonathan began his career by focusing on rich internet applications, before Web 2.0 was born. He wrote about the topic in PHP|Architect, in the French magazine Direction|PHP, and spoke about it in different conferences, such as Solutions Linux. He wrote a book in French, which was later translated to German: Les Cahiers du Programmeur XUL. He is now a student in computer science at the ENS Lyon, focusing on theoretical aspects of the Web and their applications.

Elie Rotenberg

Elie Rotenberg is a student at ENS Lyon in Computer Science, where he is focusing on several transdisciplinary topics, such as evolution, social networks and economics. His aim behind this is to study common approaches involving both theoretical modelisation and simulations techniques to get a better understanding of the complex underlying phenomenons.

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