Maxime Lucas

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Welcome! I am a physicist working at the intersection of dynamical systems and networks, with a strong interest in applications to the life sciences. My research combines theory, data analysis, and experiments to explore the complexity of systems such as fungal networks, brains, and animal communication.

I am currently a postdoctoral fellow funded by the FNRS, working on the structure and growth of fungal networks. I am based at the Namur Institute for Complex Systems (U of Namur) and the Laboratory of Mycology (UCLouvain), in Belgium. I am also part of Project CETI, a large interdisciplinary collaboration trying to decipher the communication of sperm whales.

Previously, I was a postdoctoral researcher at the CENTAI Institute and the ISI Foundation in Turin with Giovanni Petri, and before that at CENTURI in Marseille with Alain Barrat, Bianca Habermann, and Laurent Tichit. I obtained my PhD as part of the COSMOS Marie Curie training network co-supervised by Aneta Stefanovska (Lancaster University) and Duccio Fanelli (University of Florence). I also hold an MSc in Physics from Université Libre de Bruxelles and a complementary MSc in Artificial Intelligence from KU Leuven.

Feel free to reach out for questions, collaborations, or just to say hello!

Research interests
Complex systems · Dynamical systems · Complex networks · Synchronization · Life Sciences

news

Apr 25 “Hamiltonian control to desynchronize Kuramoto oscillators with higher-order interactions”, out in PRE!
Mar 25 “Synergistic signatures of group mechanisms in higher-order systems”, out in Phys. Rev. Lett., Featured in Physics and Editor’s suggestion! See this Commentary.
Feb 25 “Higher-order Laplacian renormalization”, out in Nat. Phys.!
Jan 25 “Topological analysis of brain dynamical signals indicates signatures of seizure susceptibility”, available at arXiv!
Oct 24 “Deeper but smaller: Higher-order interactions increase linear stability but shrink basins”, out in Sci. Adv.!

selected publications

  1. Higher-order interactions shape collective dynamics differently in hypergraphs and simplicial complexes
    Y. Zhang*, M. Lucas*, and F. Battiston
    Nature Communications, 2023
  2. Inferring cell cycle phases from a partially temporal network of protein interactions
    M. Lucas, A. Morris, A. Townsend-Teague, L. Tichit, B. H. Habermann, and 1 more author
    Cell Reports Methods, 2023
  3. Networks beyond pairwise interactions: structure and dynamics
    F. Battiston, G. Cencetti, I. Iacopini, V. Latora, M. Lucas, and 3 more authors
    Physics Reports, 2020