Nationality: French
Birth date: 17/10/1978
Marital status: Married with one child
clevallois@rsm.nl www.clementlevallois.net twitter: @seinecle
Research Associate, Erasmus University Rotterdam 2008-to date
Honorary Visiting Research Fellow, City University London 2007-2008
Research Fellow, Universite Paris X Nanterre 2006-2007
Doctoral Fellow (“Allocataire Moniteur Normalien”), Université de Lyon 2003-2006
1. Digital humanities and e-science
dataviz: GEPHI (advanced user)
network analysis: Pajek, UCINET, Network Workbench, ORA, Tnet, RSIENA, Visone, SoNIA.
text processing : Lexico3, Voyeur, AlchemyAPI, NLTK, TreeTagger. I know regular expressions.
web-based applications: xhtml, CSS, javascript, Flash, XQuery.
web mining: Iopus (Imacros)
scripting: VBA (advanced)
2. Social sciences and humanities
PhD in History of Economics, Université de Lyon 2008
“Economics and Biology in the United States (1950-1982): An Ambivalent Relationship”
Visiting Student, Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science, LSE 2007
B.A. in Modern Literature, Université Paris Sorbonne III 2002
Agrégation in Economics and Management Science, ENS de Cachan 2001
1. Refereed journal articles
“Why were biological analogies in economics “a bad thing”? Edith Penrose’s battles against social Darwinism and McCarthyism”. Science in Context (forthcoming).
“Can De-Growth Be Considered a Policy Option? A Historical Note on Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen and the Club of Rome”, Ecological Economics, vol.69, n°11, 2010, pp. 2271-2278.
“One Analogy Can Hide Another: Physics and Biology in Alchian’s ‘Economic Natural Selection’”, History of Political Economy, vol.41, n°1, 2009, pp. 163-181.
2. Working papers
“Whose field is it? Disciplinary interactions in neuroeconomics” (with Ale Smidts and Paul Wouters). Target: a high impact multidisciplinary journal.
ð a social network analysis and scientometric study of the community of neuroeconomists, exploiting the results of an extensive online survey we conducted in 2009.
“Sloppy data floods or precise social science methodologies?” with Stephanie Steinmetz and Paul Wouters, chapter in a collective volume (Anne Beaulieu, Andrea Scharnhorst, Paul Wouters & Sally Wyatt, eds). In submission to the MIT Press.
ð a comparison of the consequences of data-intensive research for sociology and economics.
“Bridging the history of sociobiology with animal social behavior studies”. Final draft. To be submitted to the Journal of the History of Behavioral Sciences.
ð an archive-based history of the naturalist tradition in animal behavior studies in the post-war period.
“Economics under my skin: the reintroduction of physiological evidence in economics”. Final draft, to be presented at the Econ Departt at Duke University in Apr. 2011. Proceedings are published in History of Political Economy, annual supplement.
ð a discussion of the methodological issues raised by neuroeconomics, supported by an examination of the change in observational practices that it entails.
Review of Paul Glimcher’s Foundations of Neuroeconomics (OUP, 2010) for the Journal of Economic Methodology (accepted for publication).
ð This book makes the case for a program of integration between economics, psychology and neuroscience. I argue that this bold challenge should be taken very seriously by economists.
1. Invited lectures
“Studying disciplinary interactions between natural and social sciences”, Eindhoven TU, June 2011.
“Against the house of mirrors view of interdisciplinarity”, Collegio Carlo Alberto in Moncalieri, It, May 2011.
“Reflection on the increasing societal interest in neuroimaging”, Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Amsterdam, April 2011.
“Economics under my skin: the reintroduction of physiological evidence in economics”, HOPE Conference, Duke University, April 2011. (Pre-invitation + referee process)
“Interdisciplinarity in neuroeconomics – with several methodological proposals for its study” Workshop of the Netherlands Graduate Research School of Science, Technology and Modern Culture (WTMC), Feb 2011.
“Neuromarketing: an e-story”, Workshop on scientometrics, Science-Po, MediaLab, Paris, Dec 2010.
“Networks for history of economic thought”, Centre Pareto Walras, Lausanne, Feb 2010.
2. Refereed presentations to international conferences
“Dynamic semantic analysis via text mining of an online corpus with Alchemy and Gephi”, Sunbelt XXXI, Feb 2011.
“Neuromarketing: an e-story”, Oxford Said Business School, Dec 2010.
“Whose field is it? Disciplinary interactions in neuroeconomics”, Society for Neuroeconomics, Oct 2010.
“Networks for history of economic thought”, European Society for the History of Economic Thought, Mar 2010.
“Were biological analogies in economics a bad thing? A Micro-History of Edith Penrose during McCarthyism”, History of Economics Society, Jun 2009.
“Sociobiology before Sociobiology: changing meanings (1945-1975)”, Joint Meeting of the British Society for the History of Science, the Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science, and the History of Science Society, Jul 2008.
“Natural allies or bitter contestants? Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen and the Club of Rome”, History of Economics Society, Jun 2008.
“The Biophysics of Alchian’s economic natural selection”, European Society for the History of Economic Thought, Jul 2007.
“Wilson’s Sociobiology and its reception in economics”, Università di Siena, Nov 2004.
3. Workshops
“What role did biology play in the genesis of Nelson and Winter’s evolutionary economics?”, IHPST, Dec 2010.
“Neuromarketing: An e-story”, VKS Amstersdam, Nov 2010.
“Whose field is it? Disciplinary interactions in neuroeconomics”, VKS Amsterdam, Oct 2010.
“Interdisciplinary networks in neuroeconomics”, Erasmus Studio Seminar, Feb 2010.
“Tensions in neuroeconomics”, VKS Amsterdam, Nov 2008.
“Neuroeconomics: first impressions”, VKS Autumn Plenary Session, Nov 2008.
“The nine lives of altruism and group selection in biology and economics,” EconomiX-Cachan, May 2008.
“Natural allies or bitter contestants? Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen and the Club of Rome”, Econ Deptt, City University London, Apr 2008.
“One analogy can hide another: physics and biology in Alchian’s economic natural selection”, CPNSS – London School of Economics, May 2007.
“Le débat Alchian / Penrose : la place des analogies biologiques en économie, 1950-1953,” Université Lyon 2, Apr 2006.
“Alchian’s ’Uncertainty, evolution, and economic theory’: origins of a seminal paper,” GREQUAM, Sept 2005.
“1920-1950: Organicisme et biologie physique en économie,” Université Lyon I and INSA, Jun 2005.
“Un bref aperçu des contacts entre économie et biologie, XVIII-XX siècles”, University Lyon I, Oct 2004.
1. Collaborative projects
2011- 2014
NESSHI: The ‘Neuro-turn’ in European Social Sciences and Humanities: Impacts of neurosciences on economics, marketing and philosophy.
Role: Initiator and co-writer of the application. Main researcher for the Netherlands.
Total budget granted: 1,237,370€
Funding programme: Open Research Area (joint program of NWO, ANR, ESRC and DFG).
Participating institutions: Erasmus University Rotterdam, Oxford Said Business School, Institut Jean-Nicod, University of Mainz
Project Leader: Paul Wouters
2010- to date
Role: participant
Funding programme: ANR (programme blanc)
Participating institutions: IHPST, Universite Paris I Sorbonne.
Project Leader: Jean Gayon
2008- 2011
Role: Main researcher
Participating institutions: Erasmus Studio and Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Project Leaders: Ale Smidts and Paul Wouters
2006-2009
The self-interest model and seemingly unselfish behavior in postwar social science
Role: participant
Funding: ANR
Participating institutions: H2S (ENS de Cachan), LSE, University of Birmingham, University of Denver.
Project Leader: Philippe Fontaine
2. Blogs
Founder and co-writer, http://neurobusiness.wordpress.com
Co-writer, http://ineteconomics.org/blog/playground
3. Grants and distinctions
ü Open Research Area Grant (1,237,370€) for the project “NESSHI” led by Paul Wouters, awarded in Dec 2010. I was the initiator and a co-writer of the grant application.
ü Selected, “Young Scholars Session” at the HES Annual Conference in Toronto, Jul 2008.
ü Selected, “Young Scholars Seminar” at the ESHET Annual Conference in Strasbourg, Jul 2007.
ü Research and travel grant awarded by the Friends of the Princeton University Library, 2006.
ü "Marc C. Stevens Researcher Travel Fellowship" awarded by the Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, 2006.
ü Travel grant and Visiting scholar at the Economics Department of Duke University, August 2006.
ü "Allocataire Moniteur Normalien": 3-year full doctoral scholarship awarded by the French Ministry of Education, 2003-2006.
3. Archival and field work
Ethnographic field work (6 weeks) at two labs in neuroeconomics, United States 2009-2010
Edith Penrose (economist) and Owen Lattimore Defense’s Fund
FBI files retrieved with Freedom of Information Act requests. 2008-2009
J.P. Scott, Frank Beach, T.C. Schneirla (animal sociologists, comparative psychologists), Kenneth Boulding (economist, peace activist, ecologist), Alfred Lotka (demograph, statistician, biologist, etc.), Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen (economist, theorist of the entropy law)
2006-2008
4. Refereeing
Oeconomia, History of Economic Ideas, Ecological Economics, Journal of the History of Economic Thought, Ethical Perspectives.
5. Affiliations
History of Science and Society Group (H2S) – ENS de Cachan.
History of Science Society
INET (Institute for New Economic Thinking)
International Network for Social Network Analysis
GEPHI Consortium
Member of the Advisory Board for Peerevaluation (http://www.peerevaluation.org)
6. Organization of events
Opening workshop for the NESSHI project. CWTS, Leiden University. June 9, 2011.
7. Design of websites
www.clementlevallois.net: html + Javascript + Flash
www.nesshi.eu: html5 + processing.js
1. Tutorials
“Mapping your scientific field with Network WorkBench and Gephi”
ð 1h tutorial, 30 participants (graduate students). Feb 2011.
2. Supervision of theses
Five Master’s theses in Marketing Management (Erasmus University Rotterdam, 2008 – to date)
3. Lectures
2009 Erasmus University Rotterdam
Lecturer: “Neuroeconomics: How the Brain Makes Decision” (15 ECTS).
2007/2008 City University London
Lecturer: International Trade, Competition and Regulation
Teaching Assistant: Intermediate Macroeconomics
2006/2007 Université Paris X Nanterre
Teaching Assistant: Introduction to Economics, Short-Term Economic Analysis
2003/2006 Université Lyon 2
Lecturer: “Asian Economies” (in Hanoi, Vietnam)
Teaching Assistant: Introduction to Macroeconomics, International Economics,
Corporate Finance.
2002/2003 University of International Business and Economics (UIBE), Beijing, China.
Lecturer of French to Chinese MBA students.
Pr. Philippe Fontaine
Département d’économie et de gestion
École normale supérieure de Cachan
61, av. du Pt Wilson
94235 Cachan Cedex
France
Tél. : (+33) 1 47 40 24 50
Fax : (+33) 1 47 40 24 60
E-mail : fontaine@ecogest.ens-cachan.fr
Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science
London School of Economics and Political Science
Houghton Street London WC2A 2AE
England
Tél. : (+44) 20 7955 7340
Fax: (+44) 20 7955 6004
Pr. Ale Smidts
Dean of Research RSM Erasmus University
Scientific Director ERIM
Professor of Marketing Research
Rotterdam School of Management
Erasmus University
Burg. Oudlaan 50, 3062 PA Rotterdam
The Netherlands
P: +31 10 408 9609 / 1182
F: +31 10 408 9011
Pr. Paul Wouters
Professor of Scientometrics
Director Centre for Science and Technology Studies
Leiden University
Willem Einthoven Building
Wassenaarseweg 62A
P.O. Box 905
2300 X Leiden
T: +31 71 5273933 (secr.)
F: +31 71 5273911
E: p.f.wouters@cwts.leidenuniv.nl