Dr. Nicolas Payette

Research Software Engineer

Nicolas started his career as a professional software developer before getting absorbed into academia and eventually completing a PhD in Philosophy at UQÀM (Université du Québec à Montréal).

His research interests are focussed on agent-based modelling. He has contributed to the NetLogo modelling platform and written multiple extensions for it. In recent years, he has been the main programmer for the POSEIDON ABM of fisheries. He loves to teach about these topics and has been on the faculty of the Behave Summer School since 2016.

His recent coding activities have revolved mostly around Java and R, but he has a special fondness for functional programming.