picDr. Nils Ferrand is senior researcher at Cemagref, the french public research institute for environmental engineering, within the Water Management & Actors lab in Montpellier. 
His research themes are group decision support, public participation, participatory modeling, games and multi-agent systems. He is currently leading a major project on electronic public debate for coastal area management, and developing a new multi-scale gaming apparatus for resources sharing. 
He has designed or participated in 10 European projects and more than 25 national projects, and has started one R&D company. He has more than 50 publications and book chapters. He graduated from Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan in applied physics, and also as Water and Forest Engineer. He has a MSC in math of Ecole Polytechnique and Univ. Paris Dauphine, and a PhD in Computer Sciences from Université Joseph Fourier (Grenoble).
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