Bertrand Jayles is a Senior Sustainability Data Scientist in EDHEC Infrastructure & Private Assets Research Institute, and focuses on climate risks and scenario analyses. He graduated with a Master’s degree in Theoretical Physics from Aix-Marseille University. Bertrand went on to pursue a PhD degree at the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) in Toulouse, whereby he specialized in Social Physics, a field of study at the interface of Theoretical Physics, 3 Behavioural Economics, and Social Psychology. After attaining his PhD, Bertrand joined the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin as a Post-doctoral fellow. He then moved to Singapore when he joined Nanyang Technological University as a Research fellow. His research interests include collective behaviour, social influence, collective intelligence, social resilience, and complex networks.