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Maud Deves
Associate professor
Maud H. Devès is a lecturer at the Université Paris Cité, where she divides her time between two laboratories and two teaching units: the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, and the Institut Humanités Sciences Sociétés (Centre de recherche psychanalyse médecine et société).
Her unique profile includes dual training in Earth sciences (PhD in geophysics in 2010) and human sciences (Master's degree in clinical psychology in 2013), in fundamental research and in engineering sciences (INSA-Lyon engineer 2006). This has enabled her to develop an original approach to risks and crises, combining contributions from the psycho-sociology of disasters with concrete experience of the science/decision-making/civil society interface within the framework of the French volcanological and seismological observatories for which the IPGP is responsible.
Her fields of study are overseas (Martinique, Guadeloupe, Mayotte, Réunion) and abroad (Indonesia). Strongly involved in the associative world, she chaired for several years the scientific council of the Association Française de Prévention des Catastrophes Naturelles (2016-2020) and was part of the French delegation to the 2017 UNDRR Global Platform. Today, she is co-director of the ANR V-CARE research project on early warning in volcanic contexts (2018-2024), the Earth Policy Center's MAY'VOLCANO project on information circulation practices, and a member of the French delegation to the UNDRR Global Platform.
