Bertrand JAYLES
A theoretical physicist by training, Bertrand obtained a PhD in Social Physics from the University of Toulouse, France, in 2017, on the topic of collective behaviour in human groups, through the lens of physicist methods and models. After completing his PhD, he joined the Center for Adaptive Rationality at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, Germany, as a post-doctoral fellow.
The projects Bertrand was involved in were closer to social psychology, and consisted studying, for instance, the conditions under which social information exchange can improve individual and collective decisions in human groups. As both a PhD student and a post-doc, his work comprised experiments with human subjects, data analysis and modelling.
Research interest
As a member of the Measuring, Modelling and Enhancing Social Resilience module at the Future Resilient Systems (FRS) programme, Bertrand is interested in understanding the conditions under which social resilience can be efficient, and when it is not, how it can be improved. Through the modeling of communities, represented as social networks, he seeks to identify critical factors influencing social resilience, and determine relevant measures of social resilience.
This project is highly collaborative, and the models will feed on the results of surveys and experiments carried out by collaborators from this and other modules. In return, the models will provide insights into what measures should be made in the surveys and the conditions to be tested in experiments.
Education
- Masters degree in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics at Aix-Marseille University, France
- PhD degree in Social Physics at Toulouse University, France