Professor Dr. Roland Bouffanais

Biography

Roland Bouffanais is an Associate Professor at the Global Studies Institute of the University of Geneva. His research focuses on complex systems, involving a synergistic combination of computational theoretical developments and real-life experimental validations. Bouffanais specializes in interdisciplinary research at the intersection of complexity science, social sciences, and artificial intelligence. Over the past years, he has investigated problems centered on social contagions, collective decision-making, and human dynamics. Bouffanais has published over 110 peer-reviewed papers in top-rated scientific journals, including Nature and Science Advances, and has authored a monograph on swarm dynamics published by Springer in 2016. He has also contributed numerous opinion pieces for newspapers across Asia, Europe, and North America. Bouffanais holds editorial board appointments for several leading interdisciplinary journals. He received his Ph.D. in Computational Science from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and has held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He previously served on the faculty at the Singapore University of Technology and Design and the University of Ottawa.

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