Charles de Dampierre, PhD
Charles de Dampierre, PhD
Computational social science & long-term dynamics
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I’m broadly interested in how insights from human psychology can illuminate larger societal dynamics—particularly long-term trends in human development and their relationship to cultural and scientific production and consumption. To explore these questions, I develop large databases and apply tools from artificial intelligence and statistics. I describe myself as a Computational Social Scientist with a strong orientation toward cognitive science and AI.
I hold a Master’s degree in Business and Economics from HEC Paris and a Master’s in Cognitive Science from ENS Paris. I also earned a PhD in Computational Social Science from ENS Paris, where I developed and applied advanced methods—such as unseen-species models and visual topic modeling—to uncover patterns in large-scale behavioral datasets. My research focused on mapping long-term trends in human dynamics and development, with a particular emphasis on reducing bias in the analysis of complex social phenomena.
To date, I have published research in PNAS, Scientometrics, Scientific Reports, and Current Research in Ecological and Social Psychology. I also enjoy building software and regularly contribute to open-source projects on GitHub.
I am also the Chief Scientific Officer of Bunka.ai, a company that builds software to analyze and understand social dynamics.
Published Articles
Published Articles
My publication history can be found on Google Scholar.
de Dampierre, C., Kestemont, M., Karsdorp, F., Chevalier, C., Harper, K., Huillery, E., Koyama, M., Voth, J., Bolt, J., van Zanden, J. L., Bassino, J.-P., Chen, T., Kaše, V., Kumon, Y., Morris, I., Nakabayashi, M., Shatzmiller, M., Xu, T., Yazdani, K., Thouzeau, V., & Baumard, N. (2025). Cultural production reveals transitions to sustained human development in both European and non-European societies. Nature Human Behavior (In review)
de Dampierre, C., & Mercier, H. (2025). The structure and evolution of scholarly interests from antiquity to the eighteenth century. Scientometrics, 1-21.
Sabat, M., de Dampierre, C., & Tallon-Baudry, C. (2025). Evidence for domain-general arousal from semantic and neuroimaging meta-analyses reconciles opposing views on arousal. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 122(6), e2413808122.
Fan, Z., Thouzeau, V., de Dampierre, C., Chevallier, C., & Baumard, N. (2024). Name uniqueness and the rise of individualism in Europe and North America (1500-1900), Current Research in Ecological and Social Psychology
de Dampierre, C., Mogoutov, A., & Baumard, N. (2024). Towards transparency: Exploring LLM training datasets through visual topic modeling and semantic frame. arXiv
Tainturier, B., de Dampierre, C., & Cardon, D. (2023). Mesurer l’empreinte antisémite sur YouTube. Bulletin of Sociological Methodology/Bulletin de Méthodologie Sociologique, 160(1), 71-98.
Dubourg, E., Thouzeau, V., de Dampierre, C., & Baumard, N. (2021). Exploratory preferences explain the cultural success of imaginary worlds in modern societies.
Open-Source Softwares
Open-Source Softwares
Bunkatopics: https://charlesdedampierre.github.io/BunkaTopics/
Bunkatech: https://github.com/charlesdedampierre/bunkatech
Funding & Awards
Funding & Awards
i-PhD Award Winner, Innovation competition, BPI France 2024
PSL Prematuration Program 2024
CNRS – University of Tokyo “Excellence Science” Joint Research Program
CNRS Pre-maturation 2023 for the Bunka Project
AAP Découvrabilité Ministère de la Culture 2023 for the Bunka Project
PRAIRIE Appel SHS 2022 for the Bunka Project
Interventions & workshops
Interventions & workshops
2026
Seminar, Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science (SODAS), University of Copenhagen, 30/06/2026, Speaker
Beyond Events : Historical Processes Behind Political Crisis, 16/01/2026, ENS Paris, Participant
2025
Understanding the Historical Forces Driving Expansions of Human Rights, Santa Fe Institute, 19/12/2025, Participant
Exploring the synergy between new massive historical and archaeological databases for testing theories of social evolution Complexity 28/05/2025, Complexity Science Hub, Vienna, 11/11/2025, Participant
Seminar of Economic History, Paris School of Economics, 28/05/2025, Speaker
Embed-Days, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, 28/02/2025, Organiser
2024
DEC ALTAC, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, 18/12/2024, Speaker
French and Japanese Studies in Evolutionary Social Sciences, University of Tokyo, 13/06/2024, Speaker
AI MeetUp, 11/04/2024, Speaker
2023
DHAI Seminar, Ecole Normale Supérieure, 07/11/2023, Speaker
Institut Jean Nicod (IJN) Lab Meeting, 25/10/2023, Speaker
Intervention cours HEC - Tech Innovation & Social Impact, 25/10/2023, Speaker
FRESH (The French network for the Evolutionary Study of Humans) 4th Annual Conference, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, 20/11/2023 - 21/11/2023, Speaker
PRAIRIE Days workshop, PariSanté Campus, 05/06/2023, Speaker
EHBEA (European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association), UCL, London, 18/04/2023 - 21/04/2023, Speaker
Médialab Seminar, SciencePo, Paris, 21/03/2025, Speaker
2022
DEC ALTAC, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, 21/12/2022, Speaker
Kameda Lab Lab Meeting, University of Tokyo, 09/11/2022, Speaker
PSL Week workshop "Data Science and Pop Culture"07/03/2022, Speaker
2021
SODAS Data Discussion, University of Copenhagen, 17/12/2021, Speaker
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