Bertrand Jayles, Senior Sustainability Data Scientist, EDHEC Climate Institute 

Bertrand Jayles, PhD is Senior Sustainability Data Scientist at EDHEC Climate Institute and focuses on climate risks and scenario analysis. Before joining EDHEC, Bertrand worked as a post-doctoral fellow at Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin. He then moved to Singapore when he joined Nanyang Technological University as a Research fellow.

He holds a Master’s degree in theoretical physics from Aix-Marseille University and a PhD degree from the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) in Toulouse, where he specialized in social physics, a field of study at the interface of theoretical physics, behavioural economics, and social psychology. His research interests include collective behaviour, social influence, collective intelligence, social resilience, and complex networks.