14 NEW RESEARCHERS JOIN SCIENCES PO

Since 2009, more than 100 academics have joined Sciences Po’s research units. This year, we are pleased to welcome fourteen new academic staff—economists, historians, jurists, political scientists, sociologists and geographers—to our research and teaching teams. Learn about their backgrounds and research interests below.  

In Law

Professor Régis Bismuth has joined the Law School from the Faculty of Law and Social Sciences at Université de Poitiers. His research mainly focuses on international public law, the legal issues of economic integration, financial regulation, international litigation and animal rights.

Professor Julie Saada (Fr) has joined the Law School. She is an expert in the philosophy of law and in modern and contemporary political philosophy. Her main research interests include the philosophy of international law, criminal justice, ethics and war, and post-war law.

In Economics

Professor Thomas Chaney comes to the Department of Economics from the Toulouse School of Economics. Previously he was assistant professor and research fellow at the University of Chicago. His research focuses on international trade and finance and their underlying networks. He has been awarded an ERC starting grant for his project entitled “Firm Networks Trade and Growth”.

Eduardo Perez-Richet, previously at Polytechnique, Columbia and Stanford Universities, has joined the Department of Economics as associate professor. His research focuses on the information economy, political economy, game theory and social networks. Current interests include the design of information environments.

In History

Previously a research associate at the Vienna Institute of Social Ecology, Giacomo Parrinello (Fr) has joined the Centre for History as assistant professor. His work concerns environmental history, particularly urbanisation and industrialisation as ecological, social and political transformations. He holds a Chair of Excellence from Sorbonne Paris Cité on the interaction between societies and nature on the Mediterranean coast.  
In Political Science

Laurent Fourchard has joined the Centre for International Studies (CERI) as an FNSP senior researcher. Previously he held a research position at the "Africas in the world” research centre (Sciences Po Bordeaux), before heading the French Institute for Research in Africa (IFRA) in Nigeria. His research focuses on government, violence and exclusion in African urban and metropolitan areas, especially in Nigeria and South Africa.

Romain Lachat (Fr) has joined CEVIPOF as assistant professor, after holding visiting research fellowships in Montreal, New York and Barcelona. He studies electoral choices by assessing the importance of contextual factors, political programmes, ideologies and the candidates themselves. He is also interested in party competition and has been awarded a Chair of Excellence from Sorbonne Paris Cité for his research project in this field.

Patrick Le Bihan has joined CEVIPOF as assistant professor. He was previously a researcher at the Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse (Laboratoire d’excellence, Université Toulouse I). He is interested in how political institutions affect the electorate’s ability to control its representatives and ensure that political decisions truly reflect voter preferences. His research also focuses on the impact of electoral incentives on the functioning of political institutions.

Benoît Pelopidas has joined the Centre for International Studies (CERI) as an assistant professor and remains affiliated to Stanford (CISAC) and Princeton (Science and Global Security) universities. He previously taught in Geneva and Bristol. His research focuses on the formulation, circulation and legitimation of knowledge related to nuclear weapons, and their ethical and political effects within the nuclear community and beyond, particularly in France.

In Sociology

Dominique Cardon (Fr) has joined the Medialab from Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée, where he was associate professor of media and digital sociology while also holding a research post at Orange Labs (Laboratory des usages). His research focuses on the link between new technologies and social, political and cultural practices. He studies forms of knowledge socialisation, production and dissemination, and of public expression through new media.

Bruno Cousin (Fr) has joined the Centre d’études européennes (CEE) as assistant professor after his post-doctoral research at Harvard University and a lecturer position at Université Lille 1. His research concerns the sociology of global cities and of major European metropolises, the sociology of upper classes and inequalities, and the analysis of relations to social and ethnic diversity.

Camille Roth, creator of the “Digital Humanities” unit at the Marc Bloch Centre (Berlin), has joined the Medialab as associate professor. Drawing on his dual expertise in the social sciences and the hard sciences, he studies knowledge networks, socio-semantic dynamics, corpus analysis, complex social systems, the digital public sphere, etc.

Management professor Marie-Laure Salles-Djelic has joined the CSO and serves as co-dean of the School of Innovation and Management, which Sciences Po recently launched. Prior to this she served as dean of the faculty and director of a research centre at ESSEC. Her research focuses on the interface between the business/economic spheres and society. She has published research on the transformations of capitalism, the role of transnational networks in the dissemination of ideas and practices, and on the dynamics of transnational economic governance.

Professor Éric Verdeil has joined the Centre for International Studies (CERI). Previously, he was head of the urban observatory of the French Institute for the Near East, then a researcher in the “Environment, city, society” and “Techniques, territories and societies” laboratories.
His research explores the sociology and history of urbanism, the political ecology of urban infrastructure, and energy issues.

Caption: Photos, from left to right and from top to bottom: Bruno Cousin (CEE), Giacomo Parrinelli (CHSP), Benoît Pelopidas (CERI), Romain Lachat (CEVIPOF), Patrick Le Bihan (CEVIPOF), Julie Saada (Law School), Marie-Laure Salles-Djelic (CSO), Dominique Cardon (Medialab), Laurent Fourchard (CERI), Eduardo Perez-Richet (Department of Economics), Thomas Chaney (Department of Economics), Régis Bismuth (Law School), Éric Verdeil (CERI), Camille Roth (Medialab).

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