Category: People

Clément Foutrel

Thesis title: The zone and its networks. From Monaco to Monastir, an investigation of marine protected areas in Tunisia. Supervisors: Fabian Muniesa and Béatrice Cointe Protected areas, whether marine or terrestrial, have established themselves as the flagship instrument of biodiversity…

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’s research focuses on the links between environmental sciences on the one hand, and mechanisms of environmental action on the other. He studies the extent to which the conceptual and methodological tools of ecology and sustainability sciences shape the environment,…

Carole-Anne Tisserand

Thesis title: The Politics of Co-construction: Post-It Citizen and Flexible Innovation The Case of the Paris Smart Region Supervisor: Brice Laurent This thesis analyzes how “co-construction” is defined and implemented by the Île-de-France Regional Council’s Smart team, the regional body in…

Béatrice Cointe

Béatrice Cointe’s research explore the relations between environmental concerns and the organisation of the economy. Relying on the ethnography of science and the sociology of economics and markets, she focuses on the part played by economics and natural science. She…

Jean Daniélou

Jean Daniélou holds a PhD in sociology from the Centre de Sociologie de l’Innovation (CSI), Mines Paris-PSL. His research interests include the territorialization of energy infrastructures, the climate strategies of multinational companies, and globalization. Publications Below is a selection of…

Morgan Meyer

Morgan Meyer’s research focuses on the production of knowledge and technology outside or at the boundaries of scientific institutions. His research concentrates on three main topics: 1) participation and co-production of knowledge (natural history, do-it-yourself biology, open source agriculture, low…

Didier Torny

Didier Torny joined CSI in 2016, where he keeps on doing fieldwork on a political economy of academic publication, especially with Louis Bachaud on Open Science Monitors and with Aube Richebourg on the introduction of open reseach information data in research…