Computational methods
I enjoy using computational models to explore how individual actions give rise to collective patterns, from agent-based simulations to causal loop diagrams. It’s where abstract reasoning meets tangible insight.
Welcome! 🥳
Hi, I’m Bas Châtel, a computational behavioral scientist exploring how thoughts, emotions, and interactions ripple through society. I build models that uncover why people connect, conform, or resist change — and how these patterns shape challenges like loneliness, gambling, and sustainability. My work combines psychology, complexity science, and simulation to understand (and occasionally redesign) the feedback loops that define collective behavior.
My latest work
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Interests and things you can expect here
Section titled “Interests and things you can expect here”Psychology
I’m fascinated by how cognition, motivation, and social context shape behavior, and how subtle biases or emotional feedback loops can scale up to population-level effects.
Sociology
Social systems are complex, adaptive, and rarely linear. I’m drawn to the ways norms, networks, and institutions interact to produce both resilience and fragility in societies.
Sustainability
The sustainability challenge is, at its core, a systems problem. I’m interested in behavioral and systemic interventions that make sustainable choices the default rather than the exception.
Science communication
Channels such as Kurzgesacht, 3Blue1Brown, Veritasium are superheroes. They have the ability to teach hard concepts in an accessible manner for a wide audience, a goal anyone should strive for!
Healthy food
I like to dig into food science. It’s a messy field, but one of the most useful ones to learn about for individual purpose!
Calisthenics
Bodyweight training is about control, progression, and patience. It’s very rewarding if you learn a move that you trained for so long!
Complex systems
I’m fascinated by how simple rules can lead to unexpected, emergent behavior. Complex systems show how feedback, adaptation, and interdependence shape the world, from ecosystems and economies to human societies. Understanding them helps reveal why interventions often have side effects, and how small changes can ripple into large-scale transformations. It is the playground that connects all other disciplines.