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Report on agentic AI

26/01/26

C4DT

Report

AI agents acting without human interaction are raising entirely new challenges for cybersecurity and governance. I summarized a conference on agentic AI organized by the Center for Digital Trust at EPFL.

Article on childhood protection during covid-19

21/12/25

NRP80

Article

The COVID-19 fortunately did not lead to a massive increase in domestic violence, but highlighted the vulnerability of the Swiss social protection systems. My article appeared on the DeFacto blog.

Article on a network analysis of fake news

17/12/25

Horizons

Article

Fake news spread differently than reliable information. I reported on the results of network analysis applied to Twitter for Horizons.

Series of articles for a commuter daily

01/11/25

FNR Luxembourg

Article

I adapted 13 articles highlighting a few scientific facts about daily life for the commuter newspaper L'Essentiel.

Article on the fragility of scientific data

03/09/25

Horizons

Article

How safe are the results of scientific research? I wrote for Horizons an article on the dangers faced by research data, from natural to political and financial hazards.

Article on red blood cells

21/08/25

University of Fribourg

Article

Having too many red blood cells can be a problem. I wrote an article about the physiology of oxygen for Universitas.

Portrait of a young scientist and adventurer

18/06/25

Horizons

Article

“My phobia: it is to sit behind a desk.” At 22, Margot Camus has just spent a year on a boat circling the North Atlantic to analyse plankton. I wrote her portrait for Horizons.

Summary of policy briefs

16/04/25

FNR Luxembourg

Report

I have summarized three policy briefs written by the Scientific Unit of Luxembourg’ parliament on agriculture, education and poverty.

Article on the void and the future of our universe

02/04/25

SNSF

Article

Can true void exist? No. Does vacuum hold the key to the future of our universe? Yes. I wrote an article on the importance of vacuum for Horizons.

Report on poverty

05/03/25

FNR Luxembourg

Report

Luxembourg is one of the richest countries in the world, but one in five inhabitants is poor. I have researched what science tells us about poverty for science.lu.

Article on the psychology of change

04/03/25

LargeNetwork

Article

Many factors influence us when opting - or not – for behavior that is beneficial to the environment. I have reviewed them for the magazine Die Umwelt.

Article on our memories of covid-19

20/02/25

NRP80

Article

Many are not so inclined to think back to the difficult times of covid-19. I have researched our relationship with the pandemic for DeFacto and the National Research Programme 80 Covid-19 in Society.

Articles online

Horizons – Bulletin des médecins suisses – Universitas

More examples

A selection of older texts and articles.

Interviews

"Für die Pharmabranche beginnt ein neues Zeitalter" – Joe Jimenez, CEO Novartis (Swissquote, 2011)

"Nous demeurons dans l’ombre" – Peter Pauli, CEO Meyer-Burger (Swissquote, 2010)

"Wir können die Natur von der Wirtschaft nicht trennen" – Inger Andersen, director IUCN (Horizonte, 2019)

Portraits

Der Physiker, der alles voraussagen will – Didier Sornette, physicist and investor (Horizonte, 2019)

20 entreprises familiales qui font le Nord vaudois (PME Magazine, 2012)

Background

La science du bonheur (Reflex, 2012)

High frequency trading: Millionengewinne in Millisekunden (Swissquote, 2012)

 

Séquençage ADN: la course au génôme est lancée (Swissquote 2010)

The murky costs of nuclear power (Reflex, 2011)

 

Médecine chinoise: bataille pour un marché juteux (L’hebdo, 2012)

Alzheimer-diabète: l’enjeu qui fait saliver Nestlé (L’Hebdo, 2013)

Informatique bancaire: développer ses systèmes à l'interne ou outsourcer? (Private Banking, 2009)

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