Category: People

Stine Engen

Title of the thesis: Green finance and the turning of climate change into climate risk. Under the supervision of Kristin Asdal (TIK-Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture, University of Oslo, Norway) and Liliana Doganova (CSI, Mines Paris-PSL). I’m interested in…

Solène Sarnowski

Thesis title: The digital accompaniment of people’s investigations aimed at the ecological transition Under the joint supervision of Jean-Samuel Beuscart (SES, Télécom-Paris) and David Pontille (CSI, Mines Paris-PSL). My thesis focuses on people’s ecological concerns and how they investigate to…

Clément Marquet

Clément Marquet’s research focuses on the materiality of the digital technical system. Using methods and theories from the social studies of science and technology, he is interested in the political, social and environmental tensions caused by the installation of digital…

Léone-Alix Mazaud

Thesis title: Composing with biodiversity: sensitivity operators to other-than-human beings in urban and architectural projects Supervisor: Jérôme Denis The thesis explores initiatives developed in France in response to normative pressures and increasing market incentives within the real estate sector to…

Allyson Pallisser

hesis title: Retail as a producer of “street sense”: the objectification of the positive externalities of retail in the city. Supervisor: Alexandre Mallard

Daniel Florentin

Daniel Florentin is a lecturer in environment and urban studies at Institut Supérieur d’Ingénierie et de Gestion de l’Environnement (ISIGE, Mines Paris Tech). His research interest for the past ten years has been in urban infrastructures, particularly urban water, energy…

Clément Foutrel

Thesis title: The nature of durability. An investigation on Marine Protected Areas in Tunisia Supervisor: Fabian Muniesa and Béatrice Cointe Protected areas are one of the main instruments of biodiversity conservation policies worldwide. While they primarily appear as a spatial…

Alexandre Violle

Alexandre Violle joined the CSI as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in November 2023. He is coordinating a five-year research project entitled “Anticipation: the futures of French subsoil use” (ANTICIP) carried out by research teams from three partner institutions: Ecole des Mines de Paris, IMT Mines Alès and Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières (BRGM).

Abdoulaye Diaw

Thesis title: The construction of the contemporary bulk market in France. Study of the relations between the initiatives of the supply actors, the market devices, and the consumers’ practices. Supervisor: Alexandre Mallard. This dissertation focuses on the construction of contemporary…

Kewan Mertens

Kewan joined the CSI in December 2021 as a postdoctoral researcher with European Marie-Curie  individual fellowship funding (MSCA-IF). He studies the role that environmental science and economics play in the development and implementation of environmental protection mechanisms in France and…