Activities

Nicolas Lambert is a research engineer in geographic information science at CNRS. Within the UAR RIATE, he develops both interactive and animated maps with R and D3js (Obervable) and static editing maps for books oand atlases. As member of the Migreurop network, the MAGIS research group and the Comité Français de Cartographie (CFC), he has contributed to several books, including the Atlas de l'Europe dans le monde (2008), the Atlas des migrants en Europe (2009, 2012, 2017), the Manuel de Cartographie (2016, published in English in 2020), Mad Maps (2019) and the Atlas des migrations dans le monde (2022). He leads the research notebook neocarto and the section Regard de cartographe for the newspaper l'Humanité. He teaches cartography at the University of Paris-Cité.

Carrer

2000 - Joined GeoConcept SA.
2002 - Joined the Conseil Général de Seine-Saint-Denis.
2004 : Joined the CNRS as Ingénieur d'études at UMS RIATE.
2008 - Winner of the FIG scientific poster competition in Saint-Dié.
2009 - Co-winner of the Prix Diderot Innovation at Paris 7 University.
2011 : Awarded the CNRS Cristal.
2015 : Ranked first in the internal research engineer competition.
2016 - Publication of Manuel de cartographie by Editions Armand Colin.
2019 - Publication of Mad Maps by Editions Armand Colin.
2020 : Publication of Practical Handbook of Thematic Cartography by CRC Press.
2021 : Promoted to 1st class research engineer.
2021 : Winner of the "Black History DataViz" competition.

Scientific publications

(selection)

Bahoken, F., & Lambert, N. (2024). Le cartogramme par points – The Dot cartogram. Cybergeo.

Lambert, N., Giraud, T., and Viry Matthieu, & Ysebaert, R. (2023). Cartographier pour le web avec la bibliothèque JavaScript bertin. SAGEO.

Lambert, N., Giraud, T., & Ysebaert, R. (2022). Enjeux de communication dans la multireprésentation cartographique reproductible. Communication cartographique: Sémiologie graphique, sémiotique et géovisualisation, 73.

Lambert, N. (2020). Every map is an act of creation and not a mirror of the World. Some rhetorical issues about migration mapping. The Large Glass – journal for contemporary art, culture and theory.

Lambert, N., & Clochard, O. (2015). Mobile and Fatal: The EU Borders. In Borderities and the Politics of Contemporary Mobile Borders (p. 119‑137). Springer.

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