Maxime Lucas

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 hosted by Timoteo Carletti at the Namur Institute for Complex Systems (UNamur) and Stéphane Declerck at 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 KULeuven.

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