Laurent Hébert-Dufresne is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Vermont and the Vermont Complex Systems Institute. He is an External Professor of the Santa Fe Institute and of the Complexity Science Hub, Vienna. LHD obtained his PhD in physics in from Université Laval in Québec. He then branched out in different avenues of complex systems modelling; first in microbial and forest ecology as a James S. McDonnell Foundation Fellow at the Santa Fe Institute, and later as a researcher at the Institute for Disease Modeling. His current research often focuses on the interplay between structure and dynamics in complex systems, such as the co-evolution of institutions with emerging societal challenges like pandemics and climate change. Spanning topics from network science to cultural evolution, Laurent’s research develops new modelling techniques and frameworks for understanding how ideas, beliefs, behaviours, and diseases spread.