Girardin, Luc

Luc is fascinated by the complexity that surrounds all aspects of life and by our attempts at taming it. He began his journey at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva and later joined the UBS AG (Ubilab), where he focused on information analysis and management issues, while also creating novel approaches that support intuitive and interactive ways of thinking. Subsequently, he co-founded Macrofocus, a start-up company that designs interactive visualization tools for knowledge workers that help them make well-informed and efficient decisions. Luc is currently lead architect at Macrofocus and researcher on complex adaptive systems at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH). He holds a master's degree in computer science and telecommunication.

Selected publications

Julian Wucherpfennig, Nils Weidmann, Luc Girardin, Lars-Erik Cederman. and Andreas Wimmer. Politically Relevant Ethnic Groups across Space and Time: Introducing the GeoEPR Dataset. Conflict Management and Peace Science 28(5):423-37, 2011

Lars-Erik Cederman, Luc Girardin. Growing Sovereignty: Modeling the Shift from Indirect to Direct Rule. International Studies Quarterly 54 (2010): 27-48, 2010.

Lars-Erik Cederman, Luc Girardin, Kristian Gleditsch. Ethno-Nationalist Triads: Assessing the Influence of Kin Groups on Civil Wars. World Politics 61: 403-437, 2009.

Lars-Erik Cederman, Luc Girardin. Beyond Fractionalization: Mapping Ethnicity Onto Nationalist Insurgencies. American Political Science Review, vol 101, no 1, 173-86, 2007.

Lars-Erik Cederman, Luc Girardin. Toward realistic computational models of civil wars. Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, August 30-September 2, 2007.

Lars-Erik Cederman, Luc Girardin, Kristian Gleditsch. Ethno-Nationalist Triads: Assessing the Influence of Kin Groups on Civil Wars. Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, August 30-September 2, 2007.

Nils Weidmann, Luc Girardin. Introducing GROWLab: A Toolkit for Layered Agent-based Modeling. Agent 2007, Chicago, IL, November 15-17, 2007.

Lars-Erik Cederman, Luc Girardin. A roadmap to realistic computational models of civil wars. First World Congress on Social Simulation, Kyoto, August 21-26, 2006.

Nils Weidmann, Luc Girardin. GROWLab: A Toolbox for Social Simulation. First World Congress on Social Simulation, Kyoto, August 21-26, 2006.

Dominique Brodbeck, Luc Girardin. Trend Analysis in Large Timeseries of High-Throughput Screening Data Using a Distortion-Oriented Lens with Semantic Zooming. IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization 2003, Seattle, WA, October 19-21, 2003.

Dominique Brodbeck, Luc Girardin. Visualization of Large-Scale Customer Satisfaction Surveys Using a Parallel Coordinate Tree. IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization 2003, Seattle, WA, October 19-21, 2003.

Dominique Brodbeck, Luc Girardin. Design Study: Using Multiple Coordinated Views to Analyze Geo-referenced High-dimensional Datasets. Proc. International Conference on Coordinated & Multiple Views in Exploratory Visualization, London UK, 2003.

Dominique Brodbeck, Luc Girardin. Atom’O’Scope: Interactive visualization of a nanotechnology experiment. 3rd CODATA Euro-American Workshop on Information Visualization, Presentation and Design, Paris, July 10-11, 2002.

Luc Girardin, Dominique Brodbeck. Interactive Visualization of Prices and Earnings around the Globe. IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization 2001, San Diego, CA, October 22-23, 2001.

Luc Girardin. An Eye on Network Intruder-Administrator Shootouts. In Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Intrusion Detection and Network Monitoring (ID '99), Santa Clara, CA, April 1999.

Luc Girardin, Dominique Brodbeck. A Visual Approach for Monitoring Logs. In Proceedings of the 12th System Administration Conference (LISA '98), Boston, MA, December 1998.

Luc Girardin. Mapping the virtual geography of the World-Wide Web. Paris: Proceedings of the Fifth International World-Wide Web Conference; 1996.

Affiliations

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), Usenix, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Swiss Informaticians Society (SI), Free Software Foundation (FSF).