Lionel Villard
Head Of CorText Team at ESIEE PARIS
Greater Paris Metropolitan Region France
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Top SchoolLionel Villard is Head of the CorTexT team at LISIS and a researcher/lecturer specializing in digital methods for Science and Technology Studies with 11 years of professional experience. He builds and oversees the CorTexT digital platform to support open research into the dynamics of science, technology, innovation and knowledge production while teaching social network analysis, GIS, SQL and controversy mapping at ESIEE Paris and Université Gustave Eiffel. His work blends method development, large-scale data mining and visualization—handling hundreds of thousands of publications and patents—to produce quantitative indicators and maps that inform research on nanotech, genomics, energy and R&D globalization. Comfortable at the intersection of academia and tool-building, he has a track record of translating sociological questions into reproducible digital workflows and classroom practice. A geographer by training, he brings a spatial sensibility to scientometrics and controversy mapping that often reveals overlooked geographic and actor-network patterns.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master 2 Recherche, Economic Geography, Master 2 Recherche, Economic Geography at Institut de Géographie Alpine (IGA/UJF)Master of geography, Local planning, Master of geography, Local planning at Université du Québec à Montreal (UQAM)
French, English, Italian
Github Skills (6)
relational8
database7
sql6
weighted4
coordinates3
gis2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
cortext/geoclust
Feb 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:17 commits, 21 pushes in 9 months
cortext/GeoNames
Apr 2017 - Apr 2017
Contributions:22 commits, 27 pushes, 1 branch in 4 days
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