Congratulations Dr. Ajaykumar Manivannan
Ajay Manivannan successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis on human vertical mobility in complex urban environments.
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Science and Diplomacy at EPFL (CECAM–MARVEL)
On 28 February 2025, Roland Bouffanais was one of four invited speakers at the Mary Ann Mansigh Conversation “Science and Diplomacy” at EPFL in Lausanne. The series is jointly organized by CECAM and the NCCR MARVEL. Roland opened the program with the talk “Computational diplomacy: Understanding and analyzing international relations in the digital age”. He […]
Seminar at Centre Borelli, ENS Paris-Saclay
Roland Bouffanais gave an invited seminar for the CHArtS team (Complexity, Humanities, Art, Societies) at Centre Borelli, ENS Paris-Saclay, on 14 February 2025, on modeling social contagions through the lens of complexity science. [Centre Borelli]
Paper in The Lancet Planetary Health
How has the environment been addressed in global health governance? Our analysis of the environment-related resolutions adopted by the World Health Assembly from 1948 to 2023 is published in The Lancet Planetary Health. The Environment in Global Health Governance: an Analysis of Environment-Related Resolutions Adopted at the World Health Assembly from 1948 to 2023Evrard M, […]
SiDLab Funded by the Fondation de l’Université de Genève
The Fondation de l’Université de Genève (FUNIGE) awards CHF 4.4 million over four years (2025–2028) to the Science in Diplomacy Lab (SiDLab), co-directed by Roland Bouffanais and Didier Wernli and jointly operated with ETH Zürich. [SiDLab]
Book Chapter: Data-Driven Smart Community Design
Routledge publishes Data-Driven Smart Community Design: Strategies for Fostering Inclusive and Resilient Neighbourhoods (ed. K. H. Chong), with our chapter “Predictive Analysis with Virtual Population” (Bouffanais, Malik & Tunçer). [doi] [web]
SiDLab at COP29 in Baku
Roland Bouffanais took part as an invited scientific observer in the 29th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP29), Baku, 11–22 November 2024, as part of the University of Geneva delegation, contributing SiDLab’s work on consensus and collective decision-making in climate diplomacy. Pictured: Roland Bouffanais with two colleagues and […]
Congratulations Julien Philippot
Congratulations to Julien Philippot, who successfully defended his Master’s thesis on 27 June 2024 and obtained his Master of Applied Science (MASc) in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Ottawa. His thesis, “Enhancing Swarm Efficiency: Exploration-Exploitation Tuning for Fast Target Tracking”, supervised by Roland Bouffanais, asks how to design a swarm of robots that can […]
Paper in Scientific Reports on Vertical Cities
How does the interplay between topology and function shape the way people move through an integrated urban development? Our study is published in Scientific Reports. Effects of the Interplay Between Topology and Function of an Integrated Urban Development on Patterns of User MovementManivannan A, Chin WCB, Gopalakrishnan S, Wong D, Schroepfer T & Bouffanais R, […]
Roland Bouffanais Joins the University of Geneva
Roland Bouffanais joins the University of Geneva as Associate Professor and Chair in Computational Diplomacy, with a joint appointment in the Faculty of Science and the Global Studies Institute. The Applied Complexity Group moves with him to Geneva.