!!Denise Pumain - Biography

Denise Pumain is Professor at University Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne and Director of
Cybergeo, European Journal of Geography ([www.cybergeo.eu|http://www.cybergeo.eu]). Former Chair of the
Commission on Urban Development and Urban Life of the International Geographical Union
(1992-2000), founder (1984) and Director (1992-2000) of the research laboratory P.A.R.I.S.
(UMR Géographie-cités, CNRS), since 2006 director of the European Research Group S4
(Spatial Simulation for Social Sciences, [www.S4.parisgeo.cnrs.fr|http://www.S4.parisgeo.cnrs.fr]), she is specialised in urban
modelling and theoretical geography. Her main scientific contribution is about building an
evolutionary theory of urban systems and transferring concepts and models from selforganising
complex systems towards social sciences. Her last book “Hierarchy in natural and
social sciences” is published by Springer in 2006 in the Methods Series. She is director of the
series “Villes” published by Anthropos.
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__Special Achievement:__
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Creation in April 1996 of the first entirely electronic scientific journal in geography: Cybergeo, European Journal in Geography