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 an Assistant Professsor (“chargé de cours”) at the University of Namur and the Namur Institute for Complex Systems. I am also part of Project CETI, a large interdisciplinary collaboration trying to decipher the communication of sperm whales.

Previously, I was a postdoctoral fellow funded by the FNRS, hosted by Timoteo Carletti at the Namur Institute for Complex Systems (UNamur) and Stéphane Declerck at the Laboratory of Mycology (UCLouvain), in Belgium. Before that, 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