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name: Alexandre Champagne-Ruel
image: images/AChampagneRuel.jpg
description: Visiting PhD Student
description: NASA Postdoctoral Fellow
role: phd
group: alum
home-page: https://alexandrechampagne.io
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I am a physicist with dual training in philosophy, deeply passionate about the origins of life and complex systems. I’m currently completing my Ph.D. in physics at the Université de Montréal.
I’m Alexandre Champagne-Ruel, a NASA Postdoctoral Fellow with the Mathis Group at ASU. I’m a physicist with dual training in philosophy, and I’m deeply passionate about the origins of life and complex systems.

I have worked on several models and theories of complexity derived from statistical physics, including network theory and self-organized criticality. I have also investigated how various physical phenomena, such as perturbations or diffusion, influence the emergence of cooperation in evolutionary environments, and am also interested in recent applications of frameworks such as assembly theory and information theory to the origins of life. In addition to my research work, I am also involved in the Origin of Life Early Career Network and publish the Origin of Life Digest.
I study how physical processes and environmental structures shape the emergence of complexity at life’s origin. Using artificial-chemistry models, I investigate how transport and topology modulate the emergence of complex chemistry, with the goal of refining agnostic life-detection strategies and experimental design.

I will be joining the Mathis-Group for the Fall 2024 semester to focus on numerical modelling of spatially embedded chemical reaction networks.
In earlier work, I explored how perturbations and diffusion can promote cooperative phenomena, complex behavior, and spatial patterning. I’m also actively involved in the Origin of Life Early Career Network and maintain the Origin of Life Digest.