Massimo Vergassola is an Italian physicist, who worked at the University of California, San Diego from 2013-2019.
He is now a Professor at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris and Directeur de Recherche at CNRS.
[1] Vergassola uses physics to study the sense of smell and olfactory navigation in turbulent environments.
[2] For example, he has shown the importance of a zig-zag search pattern to deal with odor plumes that have been broken into fragments due to turbulence.
Infotaxis involves the creation of a mental model of where an odor source is likely to be, based on previously collected information.