Nom Buffiere Prénom Hector Téléphone Bureau 4055 Mail Hector.Buffiere@irif.fr Page web https://www.irif.fr/~buffiere/ PhD student at IRIF (Université Paris Cité) & CAMS (EHESS) since October 2024. My advisors are Sylvain Schmitz and Patrice Ossona de Mendez. My interests include combinatorics, (structural) graph theory, (finite) model theory and (parameterized) algorithms. Some topics I am working on are NIP and stable hereditary classes of graphs, FO transductions, linear clique-width, preservation theorems, cops & robber games. Papers : Decomposing graphs into stable and ordered parts, with Patrice Ossona de Mendez, preprint Blind cop-width and balanced minors of graphs, with Rutger Campbell, Kevin Hendrey and Sang-il Oum, extended abstract accepted at Eurocomb '25 Shallow vertex minors, stability, and dependence, with Eun-Jung Kim and Patrice Ossona de Mendez, Innovations in Graph Theory, Volume 1 (2024), pp. 87-112.