Mehdi Moussaid

Biography

Mehdi Moussaïd, born July 23, 1981 in Rabat (Morocco), is a French cognitive sciences researcher, popular science communicator and web video creator. Born to a French mother and Moroccan father, he studied at the Lycée Descartes in Rabat and then trained as a computer engineer at École polytechnique universitaire de Nantes. He defended his PhD thesis in ethology in 2010 at Toulouse-III-Paul-Sabatier University under the supervision of Guy Théraulaz and Dirk Helbing, earning the 2011 Prix Le Mond...