His work addresses issues at the intersection of physics and various disciplines such as geography, urban planning, epidemiology, and demography.
By leveraging tools and concepts from statistical physics, he has analyzed empirical data and modeled diverse systems, tackling crucial challenges such as virus propagation, mobility and congestion in cities, the historical evolution of infrastructures, and the dynamics of urban populations.
Marc Barthelemy is known for his studies on spatial networks and infrastructures,[1][2][3] the structure of cities,[4] [5][6] transportation systems,[7][8][9][10][11][12] and the urban population evolution and Zipf's law.
[13][14] Marc Barthelemy is an alumnus of the Ecole normale supérieure, Paris,[15] and earned his PhD from the Pierre et Marie Curie University in 1992.
[18] Upon returning to France, he shifted his attention to transport and infrastructure networks, as well as the quantitative description and modeling of urban systems.