Luc Girardin

Luc is a trained computer/data scientist with a foot in the social sciences. In this intersection, he initially concentrated on computational models of social systems and has created the GROWLab agent-based simulation platform. To become more policy relevant, he subsequently spent several years collecting and analyzing data on ethnic groups and their participation in conflict processes. In this respect, he has co-created the Ethnic Power Relations (EPR) dataset, made landmark publications (Beyond Fractionalization: Mapping Ethnicity onto Nationalist Insurgencies) together with Lars-Erik Cederman, and led the development of the GROW^up federated data platform (winner of the J. David Singer Data Innovation Award in 2015). Luc is currently project leader at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich) and CTO at Macrofocus, a company specialized in interactive data visualization. He holds a master's degree in computer science and telecommunication.

Selected Publications

Affiliations

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), Usenix, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Swiss Informaticians Society (SI), Free Software Foundation (FSF), American Political Science Association (APSA).