Meet the New Team Members
Guillaume Falmagne
Guillaume started his science journey in Fundamental Physics at École Normale Supérieure (Paris-Saclay). He took his PhD in particle physics at École Polytechnique (Palaiseau, Paris) using the CMS experiment at the LHC particle accelerator at CERN. He went on to a postdoc position in complex systems at HMEI (Princeton University) with Simon Levin, working on critical transitions in varied socio-ecological systems and networks. 
Guillaume is now investigating what network structures enhance the propagation of cooperative behaviour—that is, choosing actions that favour group reward rather than individual reward. He leads the 5-year COOLNET project: COOperation in Large-scale NETworks, funded by the Lopez-Loreta Foundation. To obtain experimental validation of mechanisms that promote global cooperation, COOLNET will design a massively multiplayer game to serve as a laboratory for large-scale human collective behaviour. This project will recruit a mixed team of academics and video game professionals within SOHAM.
Jenny Carla Moran
Jenny is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow housed in Trinity College Dublin’s Long Room Hub Arts & Humanities Institute and is an affiliated faculty member at SOHAM. She has a background in the Humanities, having earned her BA Hons in English Studies at Trinity College Dublin and her MA in Postcolonial Studies at SOAS, University of London. In 2023, she completed her PhD in Multidisciplinary Gender Studies at the University of Cambridge. 
Jenny’s research critically interrogates the politics of emotion in reference to robots and AI. Her PhD thesis questioned the role of love in attributing lives that matter to non-living technological commodities; covering romantic love for female-gendered automata and NLP-embodying sex dolls, parental love for cute sociable robots, and love for the future of Artificial General Intelligence. She believes we must consider how compulsions to love can be intensely political. This is particularly true in reference to hierarchy, or the tendency to love certain things more easily than others. Her current project involves writing up her thesis research into a book and extending the research to consider love for Large Language Models.
Commenting on the appointments, Professor Taha Yasseri, Director of SOHAM, said:
“I’m delighted that our Centre is welcoming two new members, whose diverse research backgrounds and ambitious projects will enrich our work. Both Jenny and Guillaume are among the rising stars in their respective fields, and their training in the humanities and natural sciences, respectively, adds a great deal to the intellectual wealth of our team.“