Marc Santolini

Background

About Marc Santolini

I am a practioner-researcher working on open innovation and collective intelligence towards the Sustainable and Inner Development Goals. I study how small and large groups innovate, collaborate and learn, with a particular focus on citizen science communities and the open-source movement. I hold a PhD in Statistical Physics from Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris, where I studied Complex Systems Physics and Philosophy of Science. Fascinated by the emergence of higher-order simplicity out of complex interactions, I specialized in network science applied to biological, medical and social contexts at the Barabasi Lab in Boston, before becoming a research fellow at the Learning Planet Institute in the Learning Transitions Research Unit where I lead the Interaction Data Lab. I am also a co-founder of the Just One Giant Lab Foundation that supports the development of emergent, large-scale open research communities through social and digital technologies. My current research ties network approaches and participatory methods to foster collaborative dynamics and relational well-being in open innovation contexts. My work has been supported at the national (ANR), European (Horizon 2020), and international level (NESTA, Botnar Foundation).