Alexandre Muzy is a Research Director at CNRS (France). He has an interdisciplinary and international research background, with academic experience at the University of Corsica Pasquale Paoli, the University of Arizona, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Université Côte d’Azur, Université Paris-Saclay, and McGill University.

In 2007, he was recruited by the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) as a tenured principal investigator. In 2011, he received the Bernard P. Zeigler Award for his contributions to the Theory of Modeling and Simulation, presented at the ACM/SCS Summer Simulation Conference in Boston, USA.

Throughout his career, he has created and led three research teams composed of tenured researchers and engineers, spanning computer science, statistics, economics, and neuroscience. From 2021 to 2024, his team eXplAIn was awarded the CNRS PRIME interdisciplinary excellence label, supporting research in computer science and mathematics, with applications to neuroscience and artificial intelligence.

From 2013 to 2019, he contributed to the foundations of the NeuroMod Institute at Université Côte d’Azur. He became co-director of the institute at its official launch in 2019 and served as director from 2022 to 2024. At that time, NeuroMod brought together three training programs, sixteen institutes, and more than 250 researchers working in modeling, medicine, cognition, and biology.

At NeuroMod, Alexandre Muzy also played a central role in the creation, teaching, and academic management of the interdisciplinary, research-oriented MSc program Mod4NeuroCog.