Bastien Chopard

Bastien Chopard is a Full Professor at the University of Geneva, affiliated with the Computer Science Department and the Scientific and Parallel Computing Group (SPC lab). He is part of the Science Faculty and the Computer Science Institute (CUI). His research focuses on complex systems modeling using cellular automata, lattice Boltzmann methods, and parallel computing techniques. Key projects include the MAPPER initiative for multiscale modeling, THROMBUS (biomedical thrombosis modeling), and INSIST (in silico clinical trials for stroke treatment).

He teaches courses on algorithmic methods, parallel computing architectures, metheuristics for optimization, and the Modeling and Simulation of Natural Phenomena. Chopard leads development of the PALABOS Lattice Boltzmann Solver, a widely-used open-source framework. His work spans applications in fluid dynamics, biomedical systems, and environmental modeling.

Notable contributions include co-authoring the textbook "Cellular Automata Modeling of Physical Systems" (Cambridge University Press, 1998), and pioneering research in parallel algorithms for large-scale simulations on supercomputers and GPUs.