I am a practitioner-researcher working at the intersection of complex systems science, participatory methods, and embodied inquiry. I work with self-organized teams, transdisciplinary learning ecosystems, and innovation networks to support the emergence of collective intelligence and social innovation aligned with the Sustainable and Inner Development Goals.

My research explores how groups—small and large—collaborate, learn, and evolve, especially in citizen science, open-source, and other self-organized communities. My academic path began at the École Normale Supérieure, where I studied theoretical physics and conducted research in primordial cosmology during a formative stay at Princeton. Over time, I became curious about the laws that govern life at human scale—not in the cosmic or the microscopic, but in the meso-level patterns of interaction, emergence, and meaning-making. This led me to pursue a degree in philosophy of science, where I explored emergence as an alternative to reductionism, and then a PhD in statistical physics, applying complexity science to gene regulatory networks and developmental biology. I extended this trajectory during my postdoctoral work at the Barabási Lab and Harvard Medical School, where I studied biological and social networks to understand how structure and interaction shape health, resilience, and knowledge systems.

I currently lead the Interaction Data Lab within the Learning Transitions Research Unit at the Learning Planet Institute, where I combine network science, qualitative inquiry, and awareness-based methods to study group dynamics, relational well-being and collective sense-making in open, collaborative systems. This approach integrates computational modeling with participatory and embodied methods, contributing to the development of relational infrastructures that support more inclusive, adaptive, and meaningful forms of collaboration. My work has been supported by national, European, and international funders (ANR, Horizon 2020, NESTA, Botnar Foundation) and applied across domains including education, open science, civic innovation, and challenge-based learning.

Over the years, I have cultivated a transdisciplinary practice by collaborating with professionals from physics, engineering, biology, clinical research, sociology, mathematics, philosophy, and psychology, as well as community facilitators and monastics. These diverse perspectives have shaped an approach that is both analytically grounded and relationally attuned, bringing together insights across disciplines, epistemologies, and cultural contexts to illuminate collective dynamics. My scientific endeavors remain closely tied to experiential and practice-based inquiry. I engage with ecosystems of collective learning informed by wisdom traditions and contemporary group methods, including circling, generative dialogue, relational embodiment, social arts, and systemic constellations. In these settings, I contribute as a participant, facilitator, and researcher, working with contemplative practitioners, therapists, and community organizers to investigate how secular and tradition-informed group practices can support social resilience, relational intelligence, and transformative change.

Based near the Plum Village monastic community in Bergerac, France, I collaborate with the Life Itself research ecosystem to explore how contemplative wisdom can inform systems transformation. My personal practice is grounded in traditions that emphasize direct experience, ethical sensitivity, and the cultivation of sustained attention. These practices offer pragmatic tools for understanding how internal states—such as presence, intention, and emotional tone—influence group dynamics and shared decision-making. Over time, they have become a companion to my research methodology, enabling a perspective that integrates external observation with first-person and relational inquiry. I approach awareness and attention not as abstract ideals but as trainable, embodied capacities that can support more coherent, responsive, and grounded forms of collaboration.