Arnald Puy

Guest Researcher, Marie Curie Global Fellow

Centre for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities

E-mailarnald.puy@uib.no
Phone+47 55 58 27 13
Visitor Address
Parkveien 9

Ida Bloms hus

5007 Bergen
Postal Address
Postboks 7805

5020 Bergen

I study intensive agrarian systems and their sustainability through time. I focus on investigating their capacity to cope with socio-environmental shocks and manage uncertainty. My approach is holistic and merges anthropological frameworks with methods from the environmental sciences, ecology, modeling and statistics.

At UiB, I was the PI of the EU-funded project SIZE, which aimed at assessing the risks and benefits of promoting "large" and "small" irrigation systems through dynamic models and uncertainty/sensitivity analysis. This project was coordinated by the University of Bergen and had Princeton University as a partner institution.

I am used to working on water-related topics with a wide range of scientists from different fields, including engineers, hydrologists, archaeologists, mathematicians, ecologists and computer and environmental scientists. So if you are interested in collaborating, please drop a line!

Overview of my publications on my personal web page

Research groups

Research Group Theory of science

CoPol: Covid-19 contact tracing as digital politics

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Uniquely interdisciplinary UiB researcher to take on substantial global challenge

With funding from the EU, UiB researcher Arnald Puy will study the deep uncertainties that condition our understanding of irrigation water withdrawals for agriculture.

Portretter av Laundal, Gebhardt, Våge og Puy

Four researchers awarded ERC Consolidator Grants

Karl Magnus Laundal, Cristian Gebhardt, Kjetil Våge, and Arnald Puy have received funding to conduct groundbreaking research through the European Research Council (ERC).

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Number-crunching maths models may give policy makers major headache

Mathematical models that predict policy-driving scenarios may be too complex and deliver "wrong" answers, a new study reveals.

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CoPol: Covid-19 contact tracing as Digital Politics

CoPol studies Covid-19 contact tracing as digital politics and as data practice on the interfaces between technology, public health and fundamental rights.

Illustration: Researchers study the nuts and bolts of a box producing policy

Can we ensure that mathematical models serve society?

Inspired by the Covid-19 pandemic, UiB researchers present five principles for model quality.

Will irrigation be the next limit to growth?

New research suggests that current models critically underestimate the uncertainties when predicting future irrigated areas.

Humanities scholars attract foreign researchers to Bergen

Thanks to EU funding, the Digital Culture, Archaeology, Philosophy and Theory of Science researchs groups will welcome new international researchers to their team. These groups at the Faculty of Humanities received five out of seven Marie Curie grants awarded to UiB.