David Chavalarias is doing researches at the Center for Research in
Applied Epistemology (CREA) of the Ecole Polytechnique (Paris). After
studies in mathematics and computer sciences at the Ecole Normale
Supérieure (Cachan), he got involved in cognitive sciences at the Ecole
Polytechnique. Financed by the French National Center for the
Scientific Research (CNRS) he is now doing his researches on social
cognition and evolution of social systems. He particularly focuses his
work on the problem of endogenous preferences and social network
formation, developing a new framework based on complex systems,
multi-agents modelling and mathematical analysis. These researches have
various applications in social sciences in fields like economy,
collective discovery, emergence of cooperation, and cultural evolution.
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