Summary
Marc Santolini is a practitioner-researcher with a decade of experience at the intersection of network science, collective intelligence, and open innovation, currently leading the Interaction Data Lab at the Learning Planet Institute and serving as a visiting researcher at Georgia Tech. Trained as a physicist with a PhD from École Normale Supérieure and postdoctoral work under Albert-László Barabási, he applies complex-systems and network approaches to citizen science, open-source communities, and participatory research for sustainability and inner development. He co-founded Just One Giant Lab to scale distributed, IP-free research collaborations and has led projects funded by ANR, Horizon 2020, NESTA and the Botnar Foundation. Marc blends deep quantitative expertise in biological and social networks with hands-on platform building and community mobilization, a combination that lets him translate abstract emergence principles into practical designs for collaborative systems. An uncommon thread in his work is the focus on relational well-being as a measurable outcome of open innovation processes.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Major in fundamental physics, minor in History and Philosophy of Sciences, Physics, Ranked 9th at the entrance exam, Major in fundamental physics, minor in History and Philosophy of Sciences, Physics, Ranked 9th at the entrance exam at Ecole normale supérieure
Master’s Degree, Liquid Physics, M2, Master’s Degree, Liquid Physics, M2 at Université Denis Diderot (Paris VII)
English, French, German