Category: PhD Candidates

Lauranne Chaignon

Thesis title: Scientific contribution and the making of evaluation: the case of highly cited researchers. Supervisor: David Pontille. In the context of increasing development of research assessment tools that promote the success of individual researchers, the Highly Cited Researchers (HCR)…

Guillaume Louvet

Title of the thesis: Investing for “mineral sovereignty”. France’s critical metals supply policies. Supervisers: Brice Laurent and Béatrice Cointe. Guillaume Louvet’s doctoral thesis focuses on the analysis of the development of a French strategy for securing supplies of critical metals.…

Hafid Ait Sidi Hammou

Title of the thesis: The role of data in the sustainable maintenance of public networks. Supervisor: Jérôme Denis. With the proliferation of “smart territories” projects in recent years, data is becoming a public policy issue at the local level. This…

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…

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

Thesis title: The Value of Commerce. An investigation into the construction of (small) retail value and the evolution of current retail development policies. Supervisor: Alexandre Mallard.

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…

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…

Carole-Anne Tisserand

Thesis title: How does the organization of participation bodies in the territory “of the future” perform its public? The construction of a smart territory and of a territory “of the future”, Île-de-France Supervisor: Brice Laurent In 2019, the Île-de-France Region…