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Popular science in a commuter daily

06/08/26

FNR Luxembourg

Article

My 10th article covering news topics from a scientific perspective has been published by the Luxembourg commuter newspaper L'Essentiel.

Report on the introduction of a minimal age for social media

22/07/26

FNR Luxembourg

Report

An increasing number of countries are discussing limiting the access to social media for children. I have investigated in a report the related legal, political and technical issues.

Article on the footprint of AI

08/07/26

Horizons

Article

The AI boom is increasing electricity demand. But by how much? I have investigated for Horizons.

Article on the 1987 Montreal protocol

11/06/26

Gesda

Article

I have investigated the legacy of the Montreal Protocol, which paved in 1987 the way to solve the ozone hole problem

Article on paper mills

03/03/26

Horizons

Article

I’ve investigated for Horizons how hashtag#PaperMills are polluting the scientific literature with fraudulent articles, illegitimate co-authors, and bought-off citations.

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

Uni 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.

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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