Marc Barthelemy

I am a physicist with a background in theoretical and statistical physics. From 1999 during a visit in Boston University in Gene Stanley's lab, I became interested in complex networks. I studied general properties of these structures and some processes such as epidemics that occur on them. Transport networks and mobility are essential for understanding the spread of infectious diseases and also triggered my interest for cities and their quantitative study. This is how I started to work (for 10 years now) on the emergent science of cities fuelled by the continuously increasing amount of urban data. I also kept an interest in networks, and more specifically those embedded in space- the so-called "spatial networks". Maps, transportation infrastructure, the Internet, and the brain are part of this large family of graphs that I keep finding fascinating and that we don't fully understand yet.