PhD Candidates

Hafid Ait Sidi Hammou

PhD Candidate | hafid.ait_sidi_hammou@minesparis.psl.eu | Title of the thesis: The role of data in the sustainable maintenance of public networks Supervisor: Jérôme Denis. As so-called “smart territories” projects have multiplied in recent years, data is becoming a public policy issue at the local level. This… More about »

Victoria Brun

PhD Candidate | victoria.brun@minesparis.psl.eu | Thesis title: The forms of valuation of research. Supervisor: David Pontille. More about »

Abdoulaye Diaw

PhD Candidate | abdoulaye.diaw@minesparis.psl.eu | 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… More about »

Clément Foutrel

PhD Candidate | clement.foutrel@minesparis.psl.eu | Thesis title: Financing strategies and practices for nature conservation. A study of the marine protected areas (MPAs) in the Mediterranean basin Supervisor: Fabian Muniesa Adopting both Science and Technology Studies (STS) and political anthropology perspectives, I study the different kinds… More about »

Clément Gasull

PhD Candidate | clement.gasull@minesparis.psl.eu | Thesis title: The social and technical setups of blockchains: innovation, valuation and controversies. Supervisor: Fabian Muniesa. The ambition of this thesis is to propose a sociological analysis of the in-the-making innovative process in which are engaging financial institutions, high-tech companies and many different actors. More about »

Jean Goizauskas

PhD Candidate | jean.goizauskas@minesparis.psl.eu | Thesis title: Building in raw earth and dry stone: a breakthrough innovation? Sociotechnical experiments around construction practices in the process of stabilization. Supervisor: Morgan Meyer More about »

Guillaume Louvet

PhD Candidate | guillaume.louvet@minesparis.psl.eu | Title of the thesis: Cost-benefit assessment policies Superviser: Brice Laurent. This thesis focuses on the use and development of cost-benefit analyses, i.e., methods used to estimate costs and benefits in order to inform decision-making or to evaluate a project, an… More about »

Léone-Alix Mazaud

PhD Candidate | leone-alix.mazaud@minesparis.psl.eu | Thesis title: What data for urban biodiversity ? Equiping architectural and urban design practice for more sensitivity to living beings. Supervisor: Jérôme Denis More about »

Allyson Pallisser

PhD Candidate | allyson.pallisser@minesparis.psl.eu | hesis title: Retail as a producer of “street sense”: the objectification of the positive externalities of retail in the city. Supervisor: Alexandre Mallard More about »

Solène Sarnowski

PhD Candidate | solene.sarnowski@telecom-paris.fr | 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… More about »

Roman Solé-Pomies

PhD Candidate | roman.sole@minesparis.psl.eu | Thesis title: Making Pavements Last: The Care of Municipal Road Infrastructures in Decentralized Mainland France Supervisor: Jérôme Denis The thesis deals with the collective management of the fragility of road infrastructures. For several years, the major French road construction companies… More about »

Carole-Anne Tisserand

PhD Candidate | carole-anne.tisserand@minesparis.psl.eu | 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… More about »