Fabian Muniesa

Contact details:

• fabian.muniesa [at] minesparis.psl.eu
• +33.1.40.51.92.88
• CSI, Mines Paris - PSL, 60 bd St-Michel, 75272 Paris cedex 06 France

Welcome to my personal homepage. My professional profile at the CSI website is here (in French) and here (in English). You will find a PDF version of my CV here (and you can see how I look like here, here or here, also here).

I am a researcher at the Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation (CSI), a research center at Mines Paris - PSL (formerly Ecole des Mines de Paris, now also part of PSL University) and part of i3. My position there now: "directeur de recherche", i.e. professor / research director. I am also an external faculty affiliate at the Center on Organizational Innovation at Columbia University, at the Centre for Invention and Social Process at Goldsmiths, and at the International University College of Turin. I was the executive director of the Observatory for Responsible Innovation at the Ecole des Mines de Paris (2011-2021). I was the holder of an ERC Starting Grant (2011-2015, research project PERFORMABUSINESS). I am a co-founder and board member of Valuation Studies and chair of the editorial board of the Journal of Cultural Economy.

My primary research fields are science and technology studies, economic sociology, organization studies and anthropology. I develop interest in topics such as financial capitalism, market algorithms, automation, quantification, performance in management, business education, valuation, innovation policy, architecture and experimental methods, topics which I approach from an anthropological, qualitative, pragmatist angle. A good summary on my take on these and comparable topics can be obtained from my 2014 book The Provoked Economy: Economic Reality and the Performative Turn (snippets and comments available here).

I was initially trained as a sociologist at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. I followed there an MSc program in 1997 (at the Facultad de Ciencias Políticas y Sociología). In 1999 I joined the social sciences laboratory of France Télécom R&D in Paris (formerly Centre National d'Etudes des Télécommunications) and enrolled in the PhD program of the Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation. I submitted my thesis ("Markets as Algorithms: A Sociology of Automated Trading at the Paris Stock Exchange") in 2003, and then joined the Department of Information Systems at the London School of Economics for a post-doctoral research fellowship. Subsequently, I came back to Paris and joined the Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation with an international grant from the Ville de Paris. I was recruited as a permanent research staff member in 2005. My current, permanent position is of "directeur de recherche" (researcher director, professor) at Ecole des Mines de Paris.

I teach a course on the sociology of markets ("sociologie des marchés") for the third year students of the civil engineering program at the Ecole des Mines de Paris, and a course on "financialization and valuation" ("financiarisation et valorisation") for the PSL SES IOES master's program ("Sciences économiques et sociales") at PSL University. I am involved in other teaching activities there, which include the ISIGE's master's program in environmental engineering and management, the IES master's program at Université Paris Nanterre, and the "anthropology of finance" course for the MSc in Comparative Law, Economics and Finance at the International University College of Turin. I also act as a co-supervisor for a number of PhD candidates at the CSI, and I am responsible for the STS CSI doctoral program.

Have a look at the following links for different angles on the things that I do:

• scholar.google.com/citations?user=61uMdnYAAAAJ -- profile at Google Scholar
• provokedeconomy.net -- a blog on my book The Provoked Economy
• twitter.com/provokedeconomy -- Twitter account
• www.csi.mines-paristech.fr/performabusiness -- my ERC Starting Grant project
• debatinginnovation.org -- a policy initiative on responsible innovation