Brief Biography
Bruno Cessac is doctor in theoretical physics. He got a Master degree in theoretical physics at the center of theoretical physics, Marseille in 1990. He did his pHD in the ONERA Center of Research in Toulouse with M. Samuelides. Then he spent two years (1994-1996) in Bielefeld, Germany, as a post doc in Ph. Blanchard’s team, in the group of mathematical physics BiBoS. He is lecturer (Maitre de Conférences) in Nice University since September 1996. He is a member of the Non Linear Institute of Nice (INLN) since 1996 and of the ODYSSEE research lab in INRIA since 2006. His research interests are modeling and analysis of large sized dynamical systems arising in various fields such as physics, biology, sociology, computers networks. He has worked on subjects such as self-organized criticality, linear response in chaotic systems, social networks, communcations networks. His main interest concerns neuronal networks dynamics. He has developed methods combining dynamical systems theory, statistical physics and ergodic theory allowing to classify dynamics arising in canonical neuronal networks models like integrate and fire models or firing rate models. He is currently applying these methods on the study of synaptic and intrinsic plasticity, spike coding, neural masses dynamics, with applications in vision and imaging.