Research program

Although IdEx supports research excellence in all disciplines, it has actively promoted interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research. Certain priority thematic fields have also been identified based on the strategic research programs at the university and the research activities of its partner institutes.

Thematic areas

Mathematics · Quantum technologies · Biocontrol · Earth and universe sciences · Aging and well-being · Arts and sciences · Tourism · Socio-environmental
challenges · Risks in the Mediterranean region · Digital health · Flavors and fragrances · Marine resources · Challenges and impacts of new 5G/6G programmable networks · Intelligent mobility and automated vehicles · Innovative Materials · Signals and Waves · Economics of Innovation in Artificial Intelligence · Impacts and Challenges of Globalization · Creative Industries · Cultural Heritage · Environment and Health · Concept of the Exposome · Therapeutic Innovations · Robotics · Ionic Channels · Biological Signaling Pathways · Mecabionics

Current Chairs

J-P. Ampuero

Jean-Paul Ampuero is a senior researcher at the French National Institute for Sustainable Development at Université Côte d’Azur. Previously a professor of seismology at the California Institute of Technology (CalTech) Seismological Laboratory, his research focuses primarily on understanding the physics of earthquakes, combining theoretical, computational and observational approaches. He also has an interest more broadly in the assessment, prevention and mitigation of seismic risks, particularly in large urban areas near subduction zones, such as in Peru, his country of origin.

K. Sigloch

Karin Sigloch is a CNRS senior researcher at Université Côte d'Azur. Her research focuses on theinternal structures and dynamics of the Earth, from surface to core. Her main tool is seismic tomography, which uses the seismic waves generated by major earthquakes to produce 3D images of the internal structure of the solid Earth.

Previously a Professor of Geophysics at Oxford University, she joined Université Côte d’Azur and the Côte d'Azur Observatory, attracted by their connection to the ocean, and in particular the opportunity to develop and implement innovative autonomous sensors for seismic studies. The oceans cover two-thirds of the earth's surface. Existing technologies are unable to fully grasp them,so they remain a largely unexplored field in geophysics.

A. Boisson-Dernier

Born in Paris, and a graduate of Université Paul Sabatier in Toulouse, Dr. Aurélien Boisson-Dernier completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California, San Diego. He was awarded an ERC Marie Curie fellowship and lectured at the University of Zurich, before leading his own research team at the University of Cologne. He is now an INRAE senior researcher at the Sophia Agrobiotech Institute and holds an IdEx Chair of Excellence at Université Côte d'Azur.

He is fascinated by the complexity of signaling pathways developed by sessile plants to grow and adapt to their ever-changing environment. His scientific interests focus on the role of the plant wall in plant development and its interactions with pathogens. He leads an interdisciplinary project combining molecular, cellular and evolutionary biology, genetics and biochemistry

Former Chairs

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The purpose of this scheme is to invite top-level researchers and artists to join Université Côte d'Azur laboratories and research groups for a stay of 6 to 24 months.
The aim is to attract talented researchers who will make a valuable contribution to our community and the reputation and visibility of Université Côte d'Azur by setting up ambitious international collaborations with our researchers. Selected Chairs are thus committed to high-quality research activities leading to high-impact publications or exhibitions. Chairs in the Advanced Research Program receive an attractive salary and an operating grant and will also benefit from the services offered by the Welcome Center. This scheme is also open to internal applicants. Current Université Côte d’Azur faculty can recruit a research engineer or postdoctoral researcher for a 12-month period, and receive an operating grant. 

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Advanced Research Program Chairs 2025

Jérémie Topin

Following a PhD in theoretical chemistry, Jérémie Topin developed expertise in numerical modeling to describe phenomena at the atomic scale that are difficult to observe experimentally. After gaining experience in the pharmaceutical industry, he became an Associate Professor at Université Côte d’Azur in 2019. He is currently a teacher-researcher there and directs the Master of Science Management of the Flavor & Fragrance Industry.

His research, at the interface of chemistry, biology, and sensory science, aims to understand the mechanisms of olfactory perception and to develop industrial and biomedical applications. In particular, he has designed a bio-inspired model capable of predicting the odor of a molecule or a mixture from its structure, and of studying the impact of mutations on olfactory receptors, with potential implications for chemosensitivity and infertility.

His work has also led to the identification of the recognition site of the insect olfactory co-receptor, paving the way for the design of more targeted and environmentally friendly repellents, with the aim of reducing pesticide use. Drawing on a multidisciplinary approach (molecular modeling, cheminformatics, and ligand–receptor interactions), he also explores the emotional dimension of odors through physiological measurements and immersive virtual reality devices. Actively involved in the interdisciplinary dynamics of the IdEx initiative, he develops collaborations in biology and health while also contributing to the dissemination of scientific culture, notably through immersive installations presented at the International Perfume Museum.

Janice Lee

Dr. Janice C. Lee is an astronomer and senior leader who has held key positions at three major U.S. science centers to enable excellence in astronomy research world-wide with observatories in space and on the ground. She currently serves as STScI Project Scientist for Strategic Initiatives and Deputy Head for Community Missions, where she is helping to shape NASA’s next flagship astrophysics mission—the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO), envisioned as a “Super Hubble.”

She co-chaired NASA’s HWO Evolution of the Elements Working Group, which developed frontier star-formation science cases, and now serves on NASA’s HWO Community Science and Instrument Team. She previously served as Deputy Lead for Communications and Education at IPAC/Caltech and as Chief Scientist at Gemini/NOIRLab.

Lee began her career in STEM education and policy before returning to graduate school to pursue astronomy research. She graduated from Cornell University with a B.A. in Mathematics, and an M.A. in Teaching, and earned an M.A. in Astronomy from Wesleyan University, and a Ph.D. in Astronomy from the University of Arizona. She held Hubble and Carnegie prize fellowships at NOAO and Carnegie Observatories.

An expert on star formation in nearby galaxies, she has authored more than 150 papers and served as an editor of four books. She is particularly interested in the application of machine learning techniques to problems in observational astronomy, and using the extreme environments of low mass dwarf galaxies, galaxy outskirts, starbursts, and star clusters as observational laboratories.

Her research is anchored in large, multi-wavelength imaging surveys of nearby galaxies, which she has led or co-led for more than 15 years. These include the 11 Mpc Hα and Ultraviolet Galaxy Survey, the Spitzer Local Volume Legacy Survey (LVL), and the HST LEGUS program. Most recently, she and her team carried out Hubble and JWST Treasury surveys for the PHANGS collaboration, producing the largest census to date of 100,000 star clusters and stellar associations across 38 nearby spiral galaxies.

In 2025, her team’s JWST observations of the Phantom Galaxy (NGC 628) were commemorated on a US Postal Service stamp, celebrating their impact on astronomy research and their ability to capture the public imagination.

Joshua Newell

Joshua Newell is a professor in the School for Environment and Sustainability at the University of Michigan. A broadly trained human-environment geographer, his research focuses on questions related to urban sustainability and resilience, resource consumption, geospatial AI, and environmental and social justice. Newell has authored more than sixty-five journal articles, including in Nature Climate Change, Nature Cities, Nature Food, and Proceedings of the National Academic of Sciences. He has been awarded more than $19 million in extramural research grants, including from the U.S. National Science Foundation, NASA, and the US Department of Agriculture. Recent honors include a Fulbright Global Scholar Award, a Regensburg Fellowship (Germany), a Scholar Fellowship at the Research for Humanity and Nature (Japan), and the Weddle Prize (Outstanding Paper in Landscape and Urban Planning. His research findings have been covered in more than 160 news outlets, including the BBC, CNN, Reuters, Scientific American, The Los Angeles Times, Fox News, and many others.

At Université Côte d'Azur, Newell will collaborate with faculty and students in the ESPACE laboratory (Pr. Bouissou/Dr. Fusco) to enhance food system resilience and sustainability in two iconic Mediterranean-climate regions: France's French Riviera and California's “American Riviera.” The project will use advanced Geospatial AI to map regional food systems and to pioneer a web-based business-to-business marketplace connecting local producers with institutional buyers. The comparative approach examines two regions with similar agricultural profiles but distinct governance structures to develop scalable models for regional food networks that can extend to energy, water, and circular economy systems.

Pia Rantakari

Pia Rantakari received her Doctoral Degree in Physiology from the University of Turku (UTU), Finland, in 2010. She began her research career focusing on steroid hormone-regulating enzymes in early mammalian development. Following her PhD, she joined the University of Oxford, UK, as a postdoctoral fellow, where she investigated cell signaling mechanisms during early embryonic development. Upon returning to Finland, Dr. Rantakari’s research focus shifted to immune cell migration. In 2016, she established her independent research group with support from the Sigrid Juselius Foundation, and in 2017, she was awarded a prestigious Academy Research Fellowship by the Research Council of Finland. Since 2019, Dr. Rantakari has served as a Research Group Leader at the Turku Bioscience Centre (UTU and Åbo Akademi University) and, since 2020, as a Principal Investigator in the Research Council of Finland InFLAMES Research Flagship Programme, an internationally recognized innovation ecosystem in immunological research.

Dr. Rantakari’s research explores the complex biology of tissue-resident macrophages, focusing on the interface between the immune and endocrine systems. As part of the IdEx program, she collaborates with Prof. Stoyan Ivanov at the Centre Méditerranéen de Médecine Moléculaire to investigate macrophage–endocrine interactions within the adrenal and pituitary glands. Their interdisciplinary approach aims to uncover how macrophages influence the hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal axis and regulate stress responses, providing novel insights that may guide therapeutic strategies.

Advanced Research Program Chairs 2024

Hervé Técher

Hervé Técher (HT) obtained a PhD in molecular and cellular biology in 2012 from Université Pierre et Marie Curie (now Sorbonne University, Paris) under the supervision of Prof. Michelle Debatisse (Curie Institute, Paris). After completing his doctorate, he joined the laboratories of Prof. Vincenzo Costanzo (2013-2018, IFOM, Milan) and then Dr. Philippe Pasero (2019-2023, IGH, Montpellier) to further develop his expertise in the molecular mechanisms that maintain genome stability. Since late 2023,Técher has held the position of junior professor (CPJ) in the Biology of Aging and Human Pathologiesin the Graduate School Life and Health (EUR LIFE) at Université Côte d’Azur. The research team he has been developing since early 2024 at the Institute for Research on Cancer and Aging in Nice (IRCAN) aims to understand the links between genome instability and the inflammatory response in autoinflammatory diseases, cellular senescence, and cancers. His team is supported by IdEx through co-funding for lab setup and an international research project (PRA). Técher is the lead author of articles published in Nature Communications (2024), iScience (2024), Nature (2018), Nature Reviews Genetics (2017), and Cell Reports (2016). He teaches molecular and cellular biology, oncology, biology of aging, and human pathology at all levels at Université Côte d'Azur.

Mikko Karttunen

Mikko Karttunen is originally from Finland but has spent most of his career in Canada. He earned his master's degree in Tampere, Finland, followed by a PhD in physics at McGill University in Montreal and postdoctoral research at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz. After Germany, he moved to Aalto University in his native Finland, where he worked as a researcher and fellow of the Academy of Finland. In 2006, he was appointed to the faculty of Western University in London, Ontario, where he is currently a joint professor in the departments of Chemistry, Physics and Astronomy. Since 2017, he has held the Canada Research Chair in Computational Materials and Biomaterials Research. In addition to Western University, he has also been a professor in the Chemistry department at the University of Waterloo in Canada, and a professor and Chair of Mathematics of Complex Systems at the Eindhoven University of Technology.

Dr. Karttunen's main tools are theory, high-performance computing, and machine learning, and his work focuses on biological and soft materials, in particular the interface between materials science, biology, and biomedical sciences. As part of the IdEx program, he will be collaborating with Professor Matteo Rauzi at the Valrose Institute of Biology. The aim of their research is to use a broad interdisciplinary approach to develop an in-depth understanding of the motions and movements of the cell nucleus, nuclear migration, and how it determines cell differentiation, patterning, and development. These fundamental biological questions are essential for understanding tissue development. Abnormalities in nuclear migration have been linked with serious diseases including breast, ovarian, colorectal, and lung cancers, but little is known about the mechanisms underlying these abnormalities. The goal of this research is to uncover some of the mechanisms that govern cell development and, most importantly, pathological abnormalities. For this, Karttunen and Rauzi are using an interdisciplinary combination of cutting-edge experiments, multiscale computational modeling and machine learning.

Luísa V. Lopes

Luísa V. Lopes is a neuroscientist and group leader at the Gulbenkian Institute of Molecular Medicine (GIMM) in Portugal and a professor at the Lisbon Faculty of Medicine. Her current research focuses on understanding the mechanisms that induce “premature aging” of cognitive functions, with a focus on hippocampal circuits and associated behaviors in rodent models. Her lab has demonstrated the significant contribution of adenosine receptors in pathophysiological contexts and their impact on conditions such as stress, aging, and neurodegeneration. Her contributions to the field have been recognized by awards from the Federation of European Biochemical Societies (FEBS), the Federation of European Neuroscience Societies (FENS), and the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO), among others.

Luisa obtained a degree in biochemistry from the University of Lisbon in 1998 and went on to pursue a PhD in neuroscience, receiving training at the University of Cambridge in the UK and the Karolinska Institute in Sweden. She gained postdoctoral experience in a corporate setting at the Nestlé Research Center in Switzerland, where she studied brain-gut interactions, with a particular focus on early life stress. In 2013, Luisa established her own research group at iMM as the recipient of an Investigator FCT position.

Her research contributions include identifying circadian disorders as triggers for accelerated cognitive decline (Mol. Psychiatry, 2013; Scientific Reports, 2016), establishing mechanisms for early synaptic degeneration in the hippocampus (Nature Neurosci, 2017; Aging Cell 2023), and discovering a neuroimmune link in short-term memory (Sci Immunol, 2019; Cell Rep 2021). She is currently focused on implementing new aging-equivalent models to study human synaptic function. Luisa has published over 60 articles and several book chapters in international scientific journals, including prestigious journals such as Nature Neuroscience, Science Immunology, and Molecular Psychiatry. She has supervised the PhD theses of eight students in her team. She is a member of several Portuguese and international scientific societies and served as a board member of the Portuguese Society of Neurosciences from 2008 to 2011. She is also a member of the Scientific Council of the Faculty of Medicine and the coordination team for the Master's in Biomedical Research.

Her achievements have been recognized with awards such as the Mantero Belard Award from the Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Lisboa in 2018, the Pfizer Prize for Biomedical Research in 2020, and the Interstellar Initiative Prize for “Healthy Aging and Longevity” from the New York Academy of Sciences in 2021. In addition, she received her accreditation to supervise research in neuroscience from the Faculty of Medicine of Lisbon in 2021 and the University of Lisbon-Caixa Geral de Depósitos Award for her scientific research in the field of biomedicine in 2022. More recently, she was awarded the La Caixa Impulse Innovation Award in 2023.

Mairi Sakellariadou

After earning a bachelor's degree in mathematics from the University of Athens, Mairi Sakellariadou studied astrophysics at the Institute of Astronomy at the University of Cambridge (United Kingdom), where she obtained a postgraduate certificate and a master's degree. During her time in Cambridge, she was a member of Trinity College and president of the Postgraduate Students' Association. She continued her studies in the United States at Tufts University (Massachusetts), where she obtained a master's degree and a PhD in physics.

She has held positions at various prestigious institutions, including the Free University of Brussels, the University of Tours, Sorbonne University (Paris VI), the University of Zurich, the University of Geneva, and CERN. Before joining King's College London in 2005 as a Reader, she was an Associate Professor at the University of Athens. Since 2011, she has been a Professor of Theoretical Physics at King's College London.

Her research focuses on theoretical physics and cosmology, in particular the early universe. She explores fundamental questions such as the state of the universe before the Big Bang and the nature of dark matter, combining gravitational physics, astrophysics, quantum gravity, and mathematical physics. Her work integrates theoretical developments and observational data, aiming to test fundamental physics through gravitational waves and cosmological models. Her research focuses on two main areas: using gravitational waves to test fundamental theories and applying quantum gravity to cosmology, leveraging observational data to validate theoretical models.
She has contributed to more than 360 scientific articles, accumulating more than 82,000 citations (h-Index: 101), with significant work on gravitational waves, topological defects, non-commutative geometry, dark matter, and modified gravity.

Mairi Sakellariadou is heavily involved in several major international collaborations, including the LIGO scientific collaboration, GEO 600, the LISA consortium, the Einstein Telescope, the MoEDAL experiment, the European Pulsar Timing Array, the Square Kilometer Array, and the Euclid consortium. She is co-chair of the Stochastic Group of the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration and co-chair of the Cosmology Division of the Einstein Telescope Observational Science Board. In addition, she is a founding member of the International Society for Quantum Gravity (ISQG), a member of the Foundational Questions Institute (FQXi), and serves as editor-in-chief of the journal General Relativity and Gravitation (Springer).

Advanced Research Program Chairs 2023

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As part of its commitment to excellence and raising its international profile, Université Côte d'Azur's IdEx offers Excellence Fellowships for Young Researchers, to encourage the recruitment of young postdoctoral researchers to its laboratories. Each year, this scheme enables 12 top young scientists to join a Université Côte d'Azur laboratory for a period of 24 months, with the following objectives:

• To help the postdoctoral researcher apply for a permanent position at Université Côte d'Azur (through associate professor or researcher competitive examinations, with a Université Côte d'Azur host laboratory as their first choice of location).
• To allow the supervisor and/or postdoctoral fellow to submit an ERC application within two years of recruitment.

In addition to a highly attractive salary, successful candidates receive an operating grantand the services offered by the IdEx Welcome Center.

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Young Researcher Excellence Fellowship recipients 2025

Recipient	Host Laboratory	Project Leader	Project Title
Main list (ex aequo)
Ludmilla LORRAIN	CRHI	Melanie PLOUVIEZ	Famille, héritage, et émancipation des femmes (Familly, heritage and emancipation of women)
Francesco NOBILI	LJAD	Severine RIGOT	Stability of Sobolev inequalities under Ricci lower bounds
Alessandro PETROCCIA	GEOAZUR	Guillaume DUCLAUX	Geostructural Analysis and Integrated Assessment of deformation and mineralisation
Sofia ANGRIMAN	INPHYNI	Christophe BROUZET	Inertial fibres in turbulent wall bounded flows
Luisa SEGUIN	BCL	Lena BAUNAZ	Intervention effects in Romance
HyeJeong KIM	GEOAZUR	Karin SIGLOCH	Ocean Acoustic-Seismic wavefield Monitoring Using Ocean Bottom Seismometers (OASIS)
Gina PERRELLA	C3M	Laurent YVAN-CHARVET	Mitochondrial Cardiolipin Reprogramming in Megakaryopoiesis during Atherosclerosclerosis
Hankui WANG	GREDEG	Philipp HARTING	AI, Firm Heterogeneity, and Structural Change: Implications for Industry Dynamics and Macroeconomic Resiliance
Athena LI	IPMC	Delphine BICHET	THIK2 channels as therapeutic target in pain (THIKPAIN)
Leslie TRICOCHE	Inria, Cronos Team	Samuel DESLAURIERS-GAUTHIER, Théodore PAPADOPOULO	Does being pro-ecological equate to being pro-social? A fundamental, developmental, and cross-societal/cross-cultural approach (ECO/SOC)
Flora BAUDRY	URMIS	Christian RINAUDO	Translocalisation d'un culte Péruvien, Ethnographie des circulations religieuses en migrations (Pérou, Espagne)
Kévin RIGAUD	LAPCOS	Isabelle MILHABET	Guiding Responsible Eating with Environmental Nudges and Wise Interventions for Sustainability
Chiara PARISI	LADIE	Julien ANCELIN Julien, Anne MILLET -DEVALLE	L’instrumentalisation du droit international (Instrumentalizing International Law)
Supplementary list (in order of priority)
Thaiz RODRIGUES TEIXEIRA	ICN	Louis-Felix NOTHIAS	Refined Affinity Purification for Isolation of Novel Peptidic Natural Products
Mauro VIGANO	BCL	Seçkin ARSLAN	Passive Structures in Aphasia across Languages and Modalities
Kun WANG	LJAD	Lamberto DELL'ELCE	State-Feedback Control for Dynamical Systems: A Framework Integrating Safety and Optimality
Félicien DE HEUSCH	URMIS	Jean-Luc PRIMON	Survivors’ Pensions Protecting Transnational Families in Senegal
Sofia RODRIGUEZ-GALLARDO	IPMC	Takeshi HARAYAMA	Regulation of caveolae functions by their lipid environment

Young Researcher Excellence Fellowship recipients 2024

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Young Researcher Excellence Fellowship recipients 2023

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As part of its commitment to excellence and international outreach, Université Côte d'Azur IdEx launched the Collegium of Advanced Studies in 2023. This program is designed to help tenured faculty members of Université Côte d'Azur launch, develop or complete research projects, or to fund high-level outgoing mobility (projects with strategic partners, creation of an international laboratory, etc.).

Collegium members benefit from a reduced teaching load, a bonus and an operating grant for a two- year period, renewable once only.

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New members of the Collegium in 2024

Ingrid Bethus

Associate Professor of Neuroscience

After completing her PhD at Bordeaux 2 University, Ingrid Bethus pursued a postdoctorate in
Edinburgh (Scotland) from 2006 to 2009, supported by a grant from the French Foundation for
Medical Research (Fondation pour la recherche médicale; FRM). She returned to France in 2009 for a
second postdoctoral position in Marseille, funded through an ANR contract, where she developed
her expertise in in vivo electrophysiology on animals. In 2011, she was recruited as an Associate
professor at the Université Côte d'Azur Institute of Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology (IPMC). For
several years now, she has been developing interdisciplinary projects at the interface between
integrative neuroscience and modeling, thanks to local collaborations (LJAD, I3S, INRIA) within the
NeuroMod Institute. Her Collegium project continues in this direction, and aims to study dynamic
neurocognitive states in learning processes from animals to humans. To achieve this, she has set up a
consortium with her colleagues at the NeuroMod Institute and collaborators at Polytechnique, Paris
and the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia in Genoa.

Andreas Höring

Professor of Mathematics

After completing his studies in Bayreuth, Lyon and Grenoble and obtaining a doctorate in
mathematics, Andreas Höring was an Associate Professor at the Institut Mathématiques de Jussieu,
Paris, from 2007 to 2013. He has been a professor at Laboratoire J.A. Dieudonné since 2013 and was
a junior member of the Institut Universitaire de France (IUF) from 2018 to 2023. His research focuses
on the classification of complex projective and compact Kählerian varieties.
His Collegium project aims to tackle the famous non-cancellation conjecture, an open problem even
for low-dimensional Calabi-Yau and Hyperkähler varieties. One difficulty with this conjecture is that
natural objects have indeterminacies (like the function 1/x, which is not determined for x=0).
Andreas aims to provide a description of the geometry of these points of indeterminacy, which
would provide new tools to demonstrate the conjecture.

Jacques Barik

Professor of Neuroscience

Jacques Barik obtained his PhD in Neuroscience from the University of Bath (England) in 2006, before
pursuing postdoctoral research at the Collège de France from 2007 to 2010. He was a junior member
of the Institut Universitaire de France (IUF) in 2013 and received ANR Young Researcher funding the
same year. Since 2013, he has been an Associate Professor at Université Côte d'Azur, in the Institute
of Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology, and since 2018, he has headed a team accredited by the
French Foundation for Medical Research (FRM).

His Collegium project explores the developmental origins of comorbid psychiatric disorders, in
particular the interaction between tobacco dependence and mood disorders. His work focuses on
adolescence, a critical period of brain development, and aims to understand how brief exposure to
nicotine or stress during this phase affects emotional and motivational processes in adulthood.

Paolo Zeppini

Associate Professor of Economics

After a master's degree in physics, Paolo Zeppini worked as a mobile telecommunications consultant
before obtaining a second master's degree in quantitative finance and turning to trading in
investment banking. He completed a master's degree in research and obtained his doctorate in
economics from the University of Amsterdam in 2011. His research combines his skills in theoretical
physics and economic modeling to study the dynamics of collective decision-making. This innovative
approach makes it possible to explore non-linear phenomena such as different attractors beyond
stable equilibria, and to propose concepts such as social tipping points to escape these equilibria.
His Collegium project aims to respond to major challenges of our time, such as environmental
sustainability and social inequality, by drawing inspiration from phase transitions in physics. He is
developing a modeling framework for identifying and empirically detecting critical points, known as
"social tipping points", that can be used to guide societies towards more desirable states.

The aim of this scheme is to enhance the research capabilities within the university by creating favorable conditions to recruit candidates for research posts at Université Côte d'Azur, by offering teaching relief, bonuses and operating grants. As part of its policy of attractiveness, excellence and international recognition, IdEx has set up a specific system, the IdEx Attractivity Package, to support researchers who are recruited by national organizations that are members of Université Côte d'Azur (CNRS, INRIA, INRAE, IRD, INSERM, Observatoire Côte d'Azur). The aim is to increase the university’s research capabilities by creating conditions that will encourage candidates to choose Université Côte d'Azur as their first choice for a posting or transfer.

The IdEx Attractivity Package provides a budget of 50,000 euros for young researchers (CRs, ISFPs, astronomers and assistant physicists) and 150,000 euros for senior researchers (DRs) and astronomers/physicists, to be used over a three-year period.

All the researchers also benefit from the services offered by the IdEx Welcome Center.

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Attractivity Package recipients 2024

Recipient	Role	Institute	Host Laboratory
Ludovic KEISER	Chargé de recherche	CNRS	INPHYNI
Rémi COLOM	Chargé de recherche	CNRS	CRHEA
Isabelle TRISTANI	Chargé de recherche	CNRS	JA Dieudonne
Rémi ADAM	Chargé de recherche	OCA	LAGRANGE
Romain MELOT	Chargé de recherche	CNRS	ICN
Michel MITOV	Directeur de recherche	CNRS	INPHYNI
Marta SPINELLI	Astronome Adjoint	OCA	LAGRANGE
Yasmine NEIRIJNCK	Chargé de recherche	INSERM	IBV
Agnès BANRETI	Chargé de recherche	INSERM	IBV
Alexandre TRUC	Chargé de recherche	CNRS	GREDG
Hala ALARASHI	Chargé de recherche	CNRS	CEPAM
Léa DRIEU	Chargé de recherche	CNRS	CEPAM
Nikolaos ANGELOPOULOS	Chargé de recherche	CNRS	BCL
André NUSSER	Chargé de recherche	CNRS	I3S & Inria
Victor DAVID	Inria Starting Faculty Position	Inria	Wimmics
Michal BALAZIA	Inria Starting Faculty Position	Inria	STARS
Ivan BECHASTINYI	Chargé de recherche	Inria	MCTAO
Julia TRUCH	Chargé de recherche	INRAE	ISA

Attractivity Package recipients 2023

Recipient	Role	Institute	Host Laboratory
Nicolas FORGET	Directeur de recherche	CNRS	INPHYNI
Francesca CASAGLI	Chargé de recherche	CNRS	Inria
Mathjis WINTRAECKEN	Chargé de recherche	CNRS	Inria
Camille LAGOIN	Chargé de recherche	CNRS	CRHEA
François DUBIN	Chargé de recherche	CNRS	CRHEA
Antoine RESERBAT-PLANTEY	Chargé de recherche	CNRS	CRHEA
Antoine PETIT	Chargé de recherche	OCA	Lagrange
Seckin ARSLAN	Chargé de recherche	CNRS	BCL
Antonin TOMASSO	Chargé de recherche	CNRS	CEPAM
Virginie DURAND	Chargé de recherche	CNRS	GEOAZUR