Alumni
PhD 2000 (co-supervised by J.L. Deneubourg)
Current Position: Consultant in the area of alternative medecines, Brussels Area, Belgium
Dissertation Title: Auto-assemblage et transport collectif chez la fourmi Oecophylla longinoda (Self-assembling and collective transport in the weaver ant Oecophylla longinoda)
Postdoctoral Researcher 2001
Research Interests: Insect societies as complex adaptive systems, Models of division of labor, Self-organization and complexity, Task partitioning, Swarm Intelligence, Nature-inspired solutions for business and industry
Current Position: Associate Senior Scientist, Archimedes, Inc., San Francisco, CA, USA
Carl Anderson webpage
PhD 2003 (co-supervised by J.L. Deneubourg)
Current Position: Research Associate, Centre de Recherches sur la Cognition Animale, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse
Dissertation Title: Processus d’agrégation et de décisions collectives chez les insectes sociaux (Aggregation processes and collective decision making in social insects)
PhD 2004
Current Position: Post-doctoral researcher, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Sydney, Australia
Dissertation Title: Etude expérimentale et modélisation de la morphogenèse des réseaux de galeries chez la fourmi Messor sancta (Experimental and theoretical investigation of the morphogenesis of underground galleries networks in the ant Messor sancta)
Jérôme Buhl webpage
PhD 2005 (co-supervised by C. Jost)
Current Position: Professor of biology, College of Agriculture, Nantes
Dissertation Title: Influence de la température et des courants d'air sur la morphogenèse des cimetières chez la fourmi Messor sancta (Influence of temperature and air currents on corpse clustering patterns in the ant Messor sancta)
Postdoctoral Researcher 2006-2008
Research Interests: Pattern formation in biological systems, Form and morphogenesis of termite nests, Topology of spider mites silk networks, spatial interactions and collective decision-making in animal groups
Current Position: Postdoctoral Researcher, Institut des Systemes Complexes Paris Île-de-France (ISC-PIF), Paris, France
Andréa Perna webpage
PhD 2008
Current Position: Post-doctoral researcher, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, USA
Dissertation Title: Décisions collectives dans des systèmes d'intelligence en essaim (Collective decision-making in swarm intelligent systems)
Simon Garnier webpage
PhD 2009 (co-supervised by P. Degond)
Current Position: Post-doctoral researcher, Center for Scientific Computation and Mathematical Modeling, University of Maryland, College Park, USA
Dissertation Title: Modélisation mathématique des déplacements d’animaux et dérivation de modèles macroscopiques (Mathematical modeling of animal displacements and derivation of macroscopic models)
Postdoctoral Researcher 2007-2009
Research Interests: Dynamics and evolution of networks, Origins of Innovation, Self-Organization in Distributed Systems, Computation, Network Layout and Visualization
Current Position: Postdoctoral Researcher, Complex Systems Lab (ICREA-UPF), Barcelona, Spain
Sergi Valverde webpage
PhD 2010 (co-supervised by D. Helbing)
Current Position: Post-doctoral researcher, Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition, Max-Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
Dissertation Title: Etude expérimentale et modélisation des déplacements collectifs de piétons (The collective dynamics of human crowd motion: Where
physics meets cognitive science)
Mehdi Moussaïd webpage
PhD 2011 (co-supervised by R. Aguilar)
Current Position: Professor of Computer Science, Faculty of Science and Technology of Central Western University "Lisandro Alvarado", Barquisimeto, Venezuela
Dissertation Title: Modélisation multi-agent pour systèmes émergent et auto-organisés (Multi-agent modelling for emergent and self-organized systems)
