SNSF PhD candidate in Geography from november 2018, with a specialisation on urban and environmental issues.
Research Interests
Background & current research
In 2016, I completed an interdisciplinary master's degree "Territories, Spaces, Societies" at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris. During and after this training, I had the opportonity to carry out research tasks on topics such as: controversies and conflicts related to eco-neighbourhood urban renewal projects; the renaturing of contaminated industrial wastelands; animal feeding and rat infestations management in Parisian open spaces.
Currently part of the SNSF research project "When ecology goes to town" (2018-2022), I am conducting a doctoral research on the emergence and development of the urban object in ecology in Switzerland, under the co-supervision of Joëlle Salomon Cavin (UNIL) and Céline Granjou (INRAE). Based on a geographical approach of scientific practice which considers the production of ecological knowledge as historically situated "spatio-epistemic" processes that are constitutive of these spaces (de Bont and Lachmund, 2017), my research is structured around two lines of questioning: