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Popular science in a commuter daily

06.08.26

FNR Luxembourg

Article

My 10th article covering news topics from a scientific perspective has been published by the Luxembourg commuter newspaper L'Essentiel.

Report on the introduction of a minimal age for social media

22.07.26

FNR Luxembourg

Report

An increasing number of countries are discussing limiting the access to social media for children. I have investigated in a report the related legal, political and technical issues.

Article on the footprint of AI

08.07.26

Horizons

Article

The AI boom is increasing electricity demand. But by how much? I have investigated for Horizons.

Article on the 1987 Montreal protocol

11.06.26

Gesda

Article

I have investigated the legacy of the Montreal Protocol, which paved in 1987 the way to solve the ozone hole problem

Article on paper mills

03.03.26

Horizons

Article

I’ve investigated for Horizons how hashtag#PaperMills are polluting the scientific literature with fraudulent articles, illegitimate co-authors, and bought-off citations.

Report on agentic AI

26.01.26

C4DT

Report

AI agents acting without human interaction are raising entirely new challenges for cybersecurity and governance. I summarized a conference on agentic AI organized by the Center for Digital Trust at EPFL.

Article on childhood protection during covid-19

21.12.25

NRP80

Article

The COVID-19 fortunately did not lead to a massive increase in domestic violence, but highlighted the vulnerability of the Swiss social protection systems. My article appeared on the DeFacto blog.

Article on a network analysis of fake news

17.12.25

Horizons

Article

Fake news spread differently than reliable information. I reported on the results of network analysis applied to Twitter for Horizons.

Series of articles for a commuter daily

01.11.25

FNR Luxembourg

Article

I adapted 13 articles highlighting a few scientific facts about daily life for the commuter newspaper L'Essentiel.

Article on the fragility of scientific data

03.09.25

Horizons

Article

How safe are the results of scientific research? I wrote for Horizons an article on the dangers faced by research data, from natural to political and financial hazards.

Article on red blood cells

21.08.25

Uni Fribourg

Article

Having too many red blood cells can be a problem. I wrote an article about the physiology of oxygen for Universitas.

Portrait of a young scientist and adventurer

18.06.25

Horizons

Article

“My phobia: it is to sit behind a desk.” At 22, Margot Camus has just spent a year on a boat circling the North Atlantic to analyse plankton. I wrote her portrait for Horizons.

Articles online

Horizons – Bulletin des médecins suisses – Universitas

More examples

A selection of older texts and articles.

Interviews

"Für die Pharmabranche beginnt ein neues Zeitalter" – Joe Jimenez, CEO Novartis (Swissquote, 2011)

"Nous demeurons dans l’ombre" – Peter Pauli, CEO Meyer-Burger (Swissquote, 2010)

"Wir können die Natur von der Wirtschaft nicht trennen" – Inger Andersen, director IUCN (Horizonte, 2019)

Portraits

Der Physiker, der alles voraussagen will – Didier Sornette, physicist and investor (Horizonte, 2019)

20 entreprises familiales qui font le Nord vaudois (PME Magazine, 2012)

Background

La science du bonheur (Reflex, 2012)

High frequency trading: Millionengewinne in Millisekunden (Swissquote, 2012)

 

Séquençage ADN: la course au génôme est lancée (Swissquote 2010)

The murky costs of nuclear power (Reflex, 2011)

 

Médecine chinoise: bataille pour un marché juteux (L’hebdo, 2012)

Alzheimer-diabète: l’enjeu qui fait saliver Nestlé (L’Hebdo, 2013)

Informatique bancaire: développer ses systèmes à l'interne ou outsourcer? (Private Banking, 2009)

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