Bastien Chopard

Bastien Chopard is a full professor at the University of Geneva and a group leader at the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics. He earned his PhD in theoretical physics from the University of Geneva in 1988 and subsequently completed postdoctoral work at MIT's Laboratory for Computer Science and the Research Center Jülich in Germany. His research focuses on the modeling and simulation of complex systems, and he is widely recognized for his pioneering contributions to Cellular Automata and Lattice Boltzmann methods. With over 300 interdisciplinary scientific publications, his work spans fields such as physics, social and environmental sciences, biomedical applications, parallel computing, and multiscale modeling.