Category: People

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…

Roman Solé-Pomies

Roman Solé-Pomies is a postdoctoral researcher studying the anticipation of futures in debates about mining and energy infrastructures, more specifically the notion of critical mineral resources in transition scenarios, within the programme et équipement prioritaire de recherche “Sous-sol bien commun”…

Victoria Brun

Thesis title: The forms of valuation of research.

Supervisor: David Pontille.

Since the 1990s, there has been a succession of public policies encouraging the “valorisation of public research”. This consists of opening up the use of research results to beneficiaries other than academic actors, by defending the merits of a “return to society” of tax-funded research. It benefits from dedicated services and funding schemes, presenting valorisation activities as career enhancement or civic involvement on the part of research staff. This thesis claims to define (in the double sense of delimiting and qualifying) valorization and to show how it is the result of a distributed work that redraws the boundaries of scientific activity. […]

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 David Pontille and Victoria Brun. He is also project officer at the CNRS Open Science Direction, member of the…

Jérôme Denis

Jérôme Denis’ research focuses on two main objects: data labor and maintenance practices. Based on surveys conducted within companies in different sectors and public administrations, he seeks to understand what is at stake in data manufacturing operations and their relative invisibilization. In…

Invited researchers archives

2023 MOMMERSTEEG Brett (May-July), Ph.D. candidate, Urban Anthropology – Stadtlabor for Multimodal Anthropology, Humboldt Universität, Berlin, Germany. ENGEN Stine (January-June), Doctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture (TIK), University of Oslo, Norway. LILLENG Kaja (February-May), Ph.D.…

Marie Alauzen

Marie Alauzen’s work interweaves social studies of science and technology, the sociology of the state and law, and the anthropology of writing and reading. Her publications analyze administrative technologies, which bring about a change in the way the state is…

Pierre-André Juven

Pierre-André Juven olds a PhD in socioeconomics of innovation form the École des Mines de Paris. He conducted his thesis research at the CSI under the supervision of Vololona Rabeharisoa, and had his viva on October 7, 2014. Over the…