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Olivier MARTIN

Directeur de Recherche at INRAE, previously at Génétique Quantitative et Evolution - Le Moulon, now IPS2 (Institute for Plant Sciences Paris Saclay), Gif-sur-Yvette

Previously Professor of Physics, Université Paris-Saclay at Orsay and Junior member of L'Institut Universitaire de France.
I was also Research Vice-President of the Physics Department of the University of Paris-Saclay at Orsay.

My research focuses on biological networks, gene regulation, meiosis and recombination, algorithmic methods and systems biology.

I encourage efforts to advance cross-disciplinary work. I helped set up the Axe Interface Physique Biologie of the RTRA Triangle de la Physique and the corresponding axis of the Labex PALM.

A series of international conferences in 2014, 2016, 2018 and 2021, entitled Physics and Biological Systems, that are follow-ups of the corresponding 2011 conference at Orsay that I organized.

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• Address: IPS2 (Institute for Plant Sciences Paris Saclay), 91190 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
• Tel: 33 (0)1 6915 3379

Publications and Research

• Quantitative biology and systems biology
• Statistical physics of disordered systems
• Combinatorial optimization algorithms

Past activities associated with research:

• Deputy head of l'Institut de Modélisation des Sciences du Vivant de l'IDEX Paris-Saclay headed by Vincent Fromion.
• Participation to the two Investissement d'Avenir contracts RESET and AMAIZING.
• Past European network "Dynamics and Statics of Glasses and Spin Glasses: From Aging to Memory and Equilibrium Structures"
• Past EoI for a network of excellence called "Basic Research in Complex Knowledge (BRiCK) that led to the project Evergrow (FP6 Integrated Project).
• I co-managed with Remi Monasson the CNRS Pole for Numerical Computation called "Physique Statistique et Mesures de Complexité"

Some past Ph.D. students and postdocs :

• Nicolas CERF -> Professor, ULB, Bruxelles
• Stefano CILIBERTI -> Group leader, Capital Fund Management, Paris
• Jérôme HOUDAYER -> Chargé de Recherche, IPhT, Saclay
• Florent KRZAKALA -> Professor, EPFL, Lausanne
• Andrea PAGNANI -> Professor, Politechnico, Torino
• Allon PERCUS -> Professor, CGU, California
• Olivier RIVOIRE -> Chargé de Recherche, College de France, Paris
• Areejit SAMAL -> Assistant Professor, IMSc, Chennai
• Munetaka SASAKI -> Associate Professor, Kanagawa University, Japan
• Sumedha SUMEDHA -> Assistant Professor, NISER, India

Previous teaching:

• I was co-in-charge of the Master Systèmes Biologiques et Concepts Physiques in which I also taught a modeling course.
• I taught with M. DuBow and R. Mastrippolito a class "Physics of Biological Systems" in third year undergraduate level.
• I taught classes on biological networks in the Master Bioinformatique.
• I taught classes on Programming in C at the Master M1 level.
• I taught classes on Numerical Analysis at the Master M1 level.
• I taught classes on statistical physics at the Master M2 level.
• I taught a modeling course in the master program Champs, Particules, Matières.
• I taught for 3 years a course on finite size effects in phase transitions (an option of the Ecole Doctorale Constituants Elémentaires <-> Systèmes Complexes.)
• I taught the option "Champs et Fluides" and helped set up the option Complexity of collective physical phenomena, an M1 option of the Magistère de Physique Fondamentale d'Orsay.
• I taught first year Pre-Meds (PCEM = Premier Cycle d'Etudes Medicales) many years.
• I did one mandate on the Editorial Board of the physics teachers in higher education journal European Journal of Physics.

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