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Denise Pumain is Emeritus Professor at University Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, member of CNRS laboratory Géographie-cités. Her main scientific contribution is about building an evolutionary theory of urban systems and transferring concepts and models from self-organising complex systems towards social sciences. Founder of the research laboratory P.A.R.I.S. (1984), Director of the UMR Géographie-cités (CNRS 1992-2000), Chair of the Commission on Urban Development and Urban Life of the IGU (1992-2000), Director of the European Research Group S4 (Spatial Simulation for Social Sciences, 2006-2013), Founder and Director of Cybergeo, European Journal of Geography (since 1996), PI of the ERC advanced grant GeoDiverCity (2011-2016).