Presentation

Founded in 2006, IXXI is an interdisciplinary institute dedicated to the study of complex systems. It is organized as a Scientific Interest Group (GIS), supported by major national research organizations (CNRS, Inria, IRD) and by numerous universities in the Auvergne–Rhône-Alpes region. The institute is hosted at the École normale supérieure de Lyon.

IXXI’s mission is to foster and drive high-risk, high-reward interdisciplinary research focused on emerging objects of study and on major contemporary challenges. In particular, it aims to bring the humanities and social sciences into dialogue with the natural, experimental, and computational sciences around the analysis and modeling of complexity: the complexity of information systems and large-scale data, as well as the complexity of scientific practices themselves.

IXXI’s activities are structured around two complementary scientific areas.

The first area, Complexity and Information Sciences, focuses on methods and tools for understanding, representing, and modeling complex systems in a largely digitized world. It addresses artificial intelligence and machine learning, modes of data representation and interpretation, and the transformations induced by the digital transition in scientific practices. This research is closely connected to major societal issues such as neuroscience, health and public health, systems biology, text and information analysis, and climate and environmental challenges.

The second area, Complexities of Science, considers science itself as a complex activity. It examines the relationships between science and society, interactions between science and the arts, and issues of education, knowledge transmission, and science communication and mediation. This area seeks to better understand how knowledge is constructed, transformed, and circulated, and to experiment with new forms of dialogue between disciplines, between researchers and citizens, and between science and culture.

To pursue these objectives, IXXI relies on a multi-scale scientific network: residential research projects that regularly bring together researchers from different disciplines; a broad regional network comprising several hundred members; and close partnerships with numerous research and science communication structures. The institute supports and organizes conferences, seminar series, workshops, and training sessions, as well as an interdisciplinary call for projects designed to be simple, flexible, and conducive to the exploration of new ideas.

Through its mode of operation and its scientific project, IXXI positions itself as a meeting place, a catalyst, and a site for experimentation, in the service of cross-cutting approaches to complexity and of collective reflection on contemporary transformations in science and society.

GOVERNANCE

• Director: Patrice ABRY - CNRS, LP ENS de Lyon
• Deputy director:  Jean-Philippe MAGUÉ, ICAR, ENS de Lyon
• Interim administrative manager: Diane BARTHELEMY

Executive Committee

• Patrice ABRY, CNRS, LP ENS de Lyon
• Christelle BAHIER-PORTE, Université Jean Monnet
• Pierre BORGNAT, CNRS, LP ENS de Lyon
• Rémy CAZABET, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, LIRIS
• Mathieu COUTTENIER, ENS de Lyon, Gate
• Michel DOJAT, INSERM, Grenoble Neuroscience Institut
• Nicolas FOURCAUD-TROCMÉ, CNRS, UCB Lyon 1,CRNL
• Sara FRANCESCHELLI,  ENS de Lyon, IHRIM
• Olivier GANDRILLON, ENS de Lyon BioSyL
• Stéphane GRUMBACH, Inria
• Eric GUICHARD, Enssib, laboratoire Triangle
• Guillaume GINOLHAC, Université Savoie Mont Blanc
• Pablo JENSEN, CNRS, LP ENS de Lyon
• Jean-Philippe MAGUÉ, ICAR, ENS de Lyon
• Emmanuelle MORLOCK, CNRS, MoMe, HiSoMA
• Franck PICARD, LBMC, ENS de Lyon
• Julien VELCIN, Université Lumière Lyon 2, ERIC
• Nicolas SCHABANEL, CNRS, LIP
• Titouan VAYER, INRIA (OCKHAM), LIP

PROJECT REVIEWING committee

• Fabrice Bardet
• Martin Castelnovo
• Ibrahim Cheddadi
• Christophe Crespelle
• Michel Dojat
• Irène Gannaz
• Anna Ghimenton
• Sophie Hatte
• Julie Henry
• Vincent Miele
• Sophie Pantalacci
• Jean-Michel Roy
• Philippe Rygiel
• Nicolas Schabanel
• Aurélien Tabard