Benoît Pelopidas is Full Professor and the founding director of the Nuclear Knowledges program at the Center for International Studies, Sciences Po, Paris. Nuclear Knowledges is the first scholarly research program in France on the nuclear phenomenon which refuses funding from stakeholders of the nuclear weapons enterprise or from antinuclear activists in order to problematize conflicts of interest and their effect on knowledge production. The program mobilizes interdisciplinary methods to become able to assess accepted claims about nuclear realities and explore how possible nuclear futures are scoped and connected to other existential risks. Benoît is an affiliate to CISAC at Stanford University and has been a visiting fellow at Princeton University’s Program on Science and Global Security.

The Nuclear Knowledges program has received funding from the European Research Council, the French National Research Agency, the French Ministry of Education – Chaire d’excellence –, the European Commission through the Marie Curie postdoctoral schemes and the Carnegie Corporation of New York. The team’s scholarship has received six international awards.