Loup Cellard

Loup Cellard is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S) at the University of Melbourne, affiliated with Melbourne Law School. His research focuses on the ecological impacts of data centres and automated decision-making (ADM), drawing on science and technology studies (STS) and materialist media studies. He holds a PhD from the University of Warwick (UK), where his thesis explored algorithmic transparency through ethnographic fieldwork at France's Etalab open data initiative. Before joining ADM+S, he worked as a data visualisation designer at Sciences-Po Paris and EPFL Lausanne, and as an editor for the design criticism journal Strabic.

His current project examines environmental challenges of data centre cooling infrastructures in Marseille, France. He has authored policy-relevant white papers on algorithmic transparency cited in Algorithm Watch's reports and contributed to interdisciplinary collaborations across law, computer science, and social sciences.

Active in cross-national research networks, Cellard's work bridges technical practices with societal implications of ADM systems, emphasizing ethical governance and policy innovation.