Research projects

This page presents my ongoing and completed research projects, along with relevant details and collaborations.

On-going

MOSIS (Social mobility and spatial inequalities in France: an interdisciplinary approach) is a project funded by the French National Research Agency. MOSIS brings together an interdisciplinary consortium (sociologist, statistician, geographer, data scientist, and expert in multi-agent models) firstly to analyze the evolution of spatial inequalities of intergenerational social mobility in France, secondly to improve statistical and mathematical methods for studying social mobility. From a sociological point of view, the aim is to understand the effects of globalization and technological changes on the spatial variations of social mobility. Thus, this project seeks to study social mobility within the broader context of social, economic, and cultural shifts in French territories and by taking into account migratory behaviors. The project started on January 2025 and will run for three years.
[Role: Principal Investigator]

ESTIMIA (Explaining Spatial and Temporal variations of Intergenerational social Mobility: Interdisciplinary Approach) proposes to combine the skills of four disciplines – sociology, geography, statistics and physics – to analyze intergenerational social mobility, i.e. the relationship between the social position of parents and their children. The team gathered by the project will work on a database including all the Labor Force Surveys carried out by INSEE, the Annual Declaration of Social Data (DADS) and the Permanent Demographic Sample (EDP), which will constitute a significant source of data: several million individuals characterized by several tens of variables, or even several hundreds in some cases. The project has two complementary objectives: (1) explaining the roles played by geographical, economic and sociological factors in the temporal and spatial variations of social mobility by means of a theoretically grounded formal model; (2) empirically testing this model by assessing the roles of these different factors in the evolution of social mobility in France since the Second World War. Augmenting existing theoretical and statistical models with new economic, geographic, and sociological factors while also drawing on qualitative knowledge from sociology and geography will represent a major methodological challenge made possible by the interdisciplinary nature of the team. The project started on January 2023 and will run for two years.
[Role: Principal Investigator]

Completed

NetCost (A network approach for quantifying the impact of change) was a Young Researchers project funded by the French National Research Agency. Its goal was to develop a conceptual framework for quantifying the cost of changes in complex systems by measuring their impact at different scales, with a focus on individual elements within the system. The framework, based on complex network science, was applied to three spatial systems relevant to urban planning, ecology, and spatial economy. The project was conducted from from January 2018 to March 2023.
[Role: Scientific Coordinator]

BONDS (Balancing BiOdiversity CoNservation with Development in Amazonian WetlandS) is a Belmont Forum and BiodivERsA project funded through the International joint call on “Scenarios of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services”. The purpose of BONDS was to combine conservation and development stakes in scenarios of biodiversity and ecosystem services for the extensive floodplains of the world’s largest river system: the Amazon. The project was conducted from from March 2019 to March 2022.
[Role: Principal Investigator]

IMAGINE (Integrative Management of Green Infrastructures Multifunctionality, Ecosystem Integrity and Ecosystem Services: From assessment to regulation in socioecological systems) Using a multidisciplinary approach across six case study territories spanning a European north-south gradient from the boreal zone to the Mediterranean, the IMAGINE project aimed at quantifying the multiple functions, ecosystem services, and benefits provided by Green Infrastructures (GI) in different contexts from rural to urban. The project was conducted from from February 2017 to January 2020.
[Role: Investigator]

Cultural Ecosystem Services: An Empirical approach across European landscapes and beyond is an AHIA research project funded under the ALTER-Net High Impact Actions. The project was conducted from from February 2017 to February 2018.
[Role: Scientific Coordinator]

INSIGHT (Innovative Policy Modelling and Governance Tools for Sustainable Post-Crisis Urban Development) is a research project funded under the ICT Theme of the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme. INSIGHT aimed to investigate how ICT, with particular focus on data science and complexity theory, can help European cities formulate and evaluate policies to stimulate a balanced economic recovery and sustainable urban development. The project was conducted from from October 2013 to October 2016.
[Role: Investigator]

EUNOIA (Evolutive User-centric Networks for Intraurban Accessibility) is a research project funded under the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme ICT Programme. The goal of EUNOIA was to take advantage of the opportunities brought by smart city technologies and the most recent advances in complex systems science to develop new urban models and ICT tools empowering city governments and their citizens to design better mobility policies. The project was conducted from October 2012 to October 2014.
[Role: Investigator]

PRIMA (Prototypical Policy Impacts on Multifunctional Activities in rural municipalities) aimed to develop a method for scaling down the analysis of policy impacts on multifunctional land uses and on economic activities. This method relied on micro-simulation and multi-agent models, designed and validated at the municipality level, using input from stakeholders. The models addressed the structural evolution of populations (appearance, disappearance, and change of agents) depending on the local conditions for applying the structural policies on a set of municipality case studies.
[Role: Investigator]