Staff Directory

Zachary Levine is a doctoral student in the Columbia University history department, focusing on modern French history, intellectual history and the history of science. He is particularly interested in the history of the brain and mind sciences, psychoanalysis and models of the self. His dissertation, provisionally titled "The Illuminating Case: The Case Study Method in the Fin-de-Siècle French Brain and Mind Sciences," examines case studies in neurology, psychiatry and psychology.

Yvan Bonnassieux is a professor at École polytechnique working on thin-film and flexible electronics. With Columbia's Ioannis Kymissis, he has led Alliance-supported research on unconventional sensors and light sources for point-of-care detection, mobile healthcare and implantable medical technologies, aiming at conformable, energy-efficient biochips capable of stimulating and recording vital signals at high resolution.

Yuma Terada is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University. His writing has appeared in Grey Room. Terada holds M.A. and B.A. degrees from Columbia University.

Yue Pan is a PhD student in cultural studies at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. She graduated from the Beijing Film Academy with undergraduate and master's degrees in screenwriting, and earned a second master's degree in cinema studies at Paris 1. Specializing in film and cultural studies, her current work focuses on contemporary American film and Chinese-American cultural exchange. Alongside her research, she works as a screenwriter for Chinese film and television.

Yinon Cohen is the Yosef H. Yerushalmi Professor of Israel and Jewish Studies in the Department of Sociology at Columbia University, which he chaired from 2011 to 2014. His research interests include labor markets, social stratification, international migration and Israel. Before Columbia, he was a professor at Tel Aviv University, where he directed the Horowitz Institute on Society and Economy and the Golda Meir Institute for Social and Labor Research. He holds a PhD in Sociology from SUNY Stony Brook.

Yasutomo J. Uemura is a Professor of Physics at Columbia University. He received his B.Sc., M.Sc. and D.Sc. in physics from the University of Tokyo and was an associate physicist at Brookhaven National Laboratory before joining Columbia in 1988. His research uses muon spin relaxation (μSR) and neutron scattering to study magnetism and superconductivity. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and a recipient of the Packard Fellowship and the Yamazaki Prize of the International Society for μSR Spectroscopy.

Yann Toma is an artist and professor at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. He co-led an Alliance project bringing together artists, mathematicians and social scientists to design participatory online visualization platforms that empower citizens to produce and use data to transform their local environment, with a flagship participatory art project on urban transformation for sustainability.

Xiaobo Lü is Professor of Political Science at Barnard College, Columbia University, and a member of the Executive Committee of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, which he directed from 2001 to 2007; he also directed Columbia Global Centers - East Asia (2008-2010). His research focuses on comparative political corruption and governance and contemporary Chinese politics. As an Alliance short-term visiting professor at Paris 1 in April 2014, he taught a course on Chinese politics and society and worked with geographer Thierry Sanjuan.

Wolfram Schlenker is a professor at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs whose research focuses on environmental and agricultural economics. He has worked extensively on the effect of weather, especially extreme heat, on agricultural yields, and on the implications for food prices and socio-economic spillovers such as refugee flows to the European Union. During his Alliance visiting professorship at École polytechnique, he pursued research on food price volatility, including how spatially correlated weather shocks affect global food prices.

Vrinda Sharma is a PhD candidate in Economics at the Paris School of Economics and Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, under the supervision of Karen Macours. She holds a Mas- ter’s in Applied Economics from the Paris School of Economics and EHESS (Summa cum Laude) and a BA (Honours) in Economics from Kirori Mal College, Delhi University.

Her thesis titled ”Climate Change and Economics of Water” aims to understand the household consequences of changing water access in developing countries. She works at the intersection of development and environmental economics with a focus on gender and agriculture. Previously, she was a pre-doctoral researcher at E ́cole Polytechnique and a consultant at the World Bank.

After completing a bachelor's degree in Political Science in Brussels, Viola Denizon joined l’École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, during which she wrote a thesis on "The perception of immigration by the Sicilian population". Since 2021, Viola Denizon has been a contractual doctoral student at the University Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne and the Ecole Française de Rome, under the supervision of Jean-Louis Briquet. She is co-supervised by the University Federico II of Naples and is affiliated with the Centre Européen de Sociologie et de Science Politique (CESSP). Viola Denizon's research focuses on the implantation of the far right in Southern Italy, specifically on Giorgia Meloni's party in Sicily, Fratelli d'Italia, in order to highlight the rise of extremism and right-wing populism within contemporary democracies. This thesis work is based on a 6-month ongoing field survey, combining participant observation and comprehensive interviews. She has participated in several international scientific projects (in New York, Rome, Sfax, Tunis, Paris, Madrid) during which she presented her ongoing work. Currently, she is writing a scientific article entitled "Campaigning for « La Meloni »: The Case of Regional and National Elections in Sicily."

Vincent Lépinay is a sociologist at Sciences Po. For his Alliance visiting professorship at Columbia (spring 2027), he proposed the course "Complicated Bedfellows: The common knowledge of academics and journalists," which introduces students to a computational approach to the sociology of ideas by collecting and analyzing data on the circulation of people and ideas between France and the United States.

Valérie is a Ph.D. Fellow from Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne studying European environmental Law and Access to justice in environmental matters. She earned a bachelor’s and a master’s degrees from the Free University of Brussels (Belgium). She completed a master of Advances studies in European law at Ghent University (Belgium) and an LL.M. at University of California, Berkeley. She has worked as a lawyer at the Brussels and Paris Bars and as a law clerk to Judges at the Court of justice of the European Union (Luxembourg). During her stay at Columbia Law School, she will focus on climate change litigation.

Unchain my Art has the ambition to enhance art exhibitions globally. Nowadays, numerous art pieces are in the hands of private collectors all around the world, while more exhibitions encounter large-scale public success. The need to connect both is pressing and would benefit all, but as collectors want to stay anonymous, museums can hardly connect with them. To solve this problem and enable exchange in a trustworthy environment we imagined a collective blockchain-based platform that can certify ownership while ensuring anonymity. Our project will help museums in their mission and make culture accessible to all.

Ulysse Guttmann-Faure is a Ph.D. student in constitutional law at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University (ISJPS), under the supervision of Professor Anne Levade. He also serves as a Teaching and Research Fellow in public law at Sorbonne Law School, after graduating valedictorian of his Master's degree.

He is conducting a global study of constitutional rigidity, with a focus on constitutional amendment attempts initiated by members of parliament in France and members of Congress in the United States. He also specializes in Empirical Legal Studies, a field in which Columbia University and American scholars have developed significant expertise.

In addition to his research, Ulysse is actively involved in academic life. He is currently responsible for organizing the Georges Vedel Moot Court on Constitutional Review (QPC), organized by the French Association of Constitutional Law and sponsored by the French Constitutional Council, and serves on the executive board of the Paris 1 University Foundation. He has also received several awards for his involvement in charitable activities.

At Columbia Law School, Ulysse is supervised by Kate E. Andrias, Faculty Director for the Center for Constitutional Governance and Patricia D. and R. Paul Yetter Professor of Law.

Tyler Abbot is a doctoral student in the Department of Economics at Sciences Po. His research focuses on heterogeneous agent models that include both idiosyncratic and aggregate risk, with particular interest in Mean Field Games, mathematical finance, stochastic calculus and non-linear filtering.

My name is Titouan. I studied mathematics and physics at Ecole Polytechnique and this year I chose to specialize in artificial intelligence and data analysis. I come from Grenoble, a French city nicknamed the capital of the Alps, where I love to cross-country ski, hike and be close to nature. I look forward to joining Columbia University and especially Pierre Gentine’s team, to use artificial intelligence to improve climate models.

Joining Columbia University, I am very excited to work on climate-invariant deep learning architectures, as this emerging field of research seems very promising for the future of climate prediction.

Timothy Frye is a professor of political science at Columbia University specializing in Russian and post-Soviet politics. As an Alliance short-term visiting professor at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, he taught "Politics in Contemporary Russia," a course that uses the literature on hybrid and authoritarian regimes to analyze political dynamics in Russia, including public opinion, presidential approval, elites and opposition, in comparative and historical perspective.

Thomas Lindemann is a professor of political science and international relations at École polytechnique (since 2015) and Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin. He holds the agrégation in political science and a PhD from the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, and has taught at Sciences Po, Paris 1, Bordeaux IV and Toulouse 1, with visiting positions in Istanbul, Staffordshire and Beirut. His research covers international relations and the history of international relations.

Thomas Clay is a Professor of Private Law at the Sorbonne Law School (where he teaches Arbitration Law and Alternative Dispute Resolution. In 2020, he was also the University’s acting President and, in 2022, he founded Sorbonne Arbitrage. 

Thomas Bourveau joined Columbia University in 2018. He previously served on the faculty at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He obtained in PhD in Management Science from HEC Paris. He teaches financial statement analysis in Columbia Business School's MBA program. Professor Bourveau primarily conducts empirical research. His research lies at the intersection of accounting, law, and economics. He is most interested in evaluating the implications of regulatory interventions in financial markets, often through the role of information disclosure.

Thomas is a doctoral candidate in African history. His research focuses on histories of childhood, gender, health, and development in West Africa in the 20th century. His dissertation, titled « Burkinabè Humanitarianisms: Children, Mutual Aid, and Migration in and beyond Burkina Faso (1932-1990) » examines the multifaceted interventions that surveyed children’s lives in Burkina Faso (Upper-Volta before 1984) from the 1930s to the 1980s. These efforts played a critical role in defining communities’ interactions and interpretations of governmental practice in the late colonial and post-colonial periods. The project links a history of social work practice, an analysis of economic models that quantified households in the post-war period, and a social history of experiences of such interventions.

Prior to pursuing his Ph.D., Thomas worked as a Peace Corps Fellow at University Neighborhood Housing Program, working on housing rights in New York. He served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Benin for two years, with a focus on health and education.

Thaís Tanure is a historian, PhD candidate (funded) at University Paris 1 Panthéon- Sorbonne. Member of the Centre for Social History at Contemporary Worlds and of the Labex Dynamite (Center of Excellence for Territorial and Spatial Dynamics). She is preparing a thesis on the heritage of slavery in Nantes and Rio de Janeiro (1983– 2019). Her research focuses on the processes of memorialization of the Atlantic slave trade and colonial slavery from a transatlantic perspective, as well as on the history of Afro-Atlantic cultures.

Thaïs Roussel, originally from Lille, France, is a final-year student at École Polytechnique, where she specializes in applied mathematics. She aspires to conduct scientific research on major societal challenges. She has previous experience using machine learning, stochastic modeling, and statistics to address health-related issues, and now looks forward to exploring their use in climate modeling at the Gentine Lab, particularly in the study of cyclone dynamics.

I’m excited to join the Gentine Lab to apply mathematical and machine learning tools to tropical cyclone dynamics. I’m also looking forward to meeting and learning from researchers in this inspiring environment!

Thais Nunez-Rocha is a doctoral researcher in economics. Her research links two literatures: the effect of international trade on the environment, and the effect of environmental regulation stringency on environmental outcomes. Using panel data for 1990-2011 and a country-specific measure of environmental regulation built from treaties and legislation, she examines whether differences in regulatory stringency between trading partners lead to pollution-haven or waste-haven effects.

I’m Sylvain Dehayem, a master’s student in Artificial Intelligence at École Polytechnique. I previously completed a third year in Informatics Engineering at École Nationale Supérieure Polytechnique Yaoundé (Cameroon). Before joining Columbia, I worked as a research intern at DXO Labs on diffusion models for image inpainting. During this internship, I explored diffusion-based generative models for high-quality image reconstruction. This experience deepened my interest in probabilistic modeling and generative AI. At Columbia, I will apply these concepts to guided diffusion models for protein design, working under the mentorship of Dr. Aaron Zweig, Dr. Mingxuan Zhang, and Prof. Elham Azizi. I’m excited to learn from an interdisciplinary research environment and to contribute to methods that connect generative modeling with biological sequence design.

I’m excited to explore how diffusion models can be adapted for biological system design, especially in protein engineering. I’m also looking forward to learning from my mentors and contributing to an interdisciplinary research team.

Sudipta Kaviraj is a professor of Indian politics and intellectual history at Columbia University. With Christophe Jaffrelot of Sciences Po, he co-led an Alliance project on Indian conservatism, a powerful tradition long overshadowed by the liberal and socialist nationalism of India's ruling parties, bringing together scholars from several disciplines to study its core principles, internal diversity and influence on Indian politics.

Stéphanie Balme is a research professor at Sciences Po (CERI) specializing in Chinese law and politics. Her research includes fieldwork filming mediations, hearings and trials in basic-level courts in China, towards publications and a research documentary on the evolution of ordinary justice during the Hu Jintao years (2002-2012). As an Alliance visiting professor at Columbia, she proposed a course on "Chinese Law and Political Institutions" and lectures on China, law and human rights.

Stefano Chessa Altieri is a PhD candidate in Global History and Governance at the Scuola Superiore Meridionale (Naples) and at the Center for History at Sciences Po, under the supervision of Professor Mario Del Pero. His doctoral research examines post-Cold War human rights advocacy in the United States and its impact on American foreign policy towards China following the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown. He holds an MSc from the London School of Economics, two Master's degrees in European Affairs from Sciences Po and an LL.M. from Fudan University. At Sciences Po he teaches 20th- and 21st-century history and co-organizes the annual LSE-Sciences Po Seminar in Contemporary International History.

Souleymane Bachir Diagne is a professor of French and philosophy at Columbia University. With Françoise Blum of Paris 1, he led the Alliance-supported African Philosophy and Politics Project, "Corpora and Doctrines of African Socialisms: A Global Historical Framing," which brought together American, French and African partners through workshops at Columbia and Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar, leading to an edited volume on the circulation and hybridity of African socialisms.

Sogol Edriss Abadi is a Ph.D. candidate in International and European Law at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University, and her dissertation is on “The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action on Iranian Nuclear Issue in the Light of International Law”. Her dissertation aims to analyze this complex agreement called JCPOA, which was endorsed by the Security Council, and to determine its legal nature, as well as its implementation, which has been called into question since May 8, 2018, following the Trump administration’s announcement to end the United States’ participation in the JCPOA.

She received her Bachelor’s degree in Law from the University of Science and Culture in Tehran (in Persian: Daneshgah Elm va Farhang). She then came to France in order to continue her studies in international law and obtained a Master’s degree in International Law and International Relations from the University of Jean-Moulin (Lyon 3). In addition to her academic activities, during which she was a teaching assistant and tutor-librarian at the Universities of Paris 1 and Paris 2, respectively, she completed a three-year internship at Shearman & Sterling LLP in Paris, where she was in charge of enriching the Doctrinal database.

Sofiene Tabtoub holds a Master's in Comparative Law from the École Normale Supérieure (Ulm) and EHESS, where his thesis examined American law and French corporate governance, and a double Master's/LL.M. in business, financial and international financial law from Paris-Sud University and King's College London. He also studied management in the Grande École program at ESSEC Business School.

Siarhei Finski is a mathematician at École polytechnique working on asymptotic problems in complex geometry. His Alliance short-term visiting professorship at Columbia was designed to deepen exchanges with Professor Duong H. Phong and colleagues in complex geometry, and included a seminar talk and a graduate seminar introducing students to asymptotic problems in complex geometry, including his recent work on the semiclassical Ohsawa-Takegoshi extension theorem.

Sharon Di is a tenured Associate Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics at Columbia University, where she directs the DitecT (Data & innovative technology-driven Transportation) Lab, specializing in transportation systems optimization and machine learning, and serves on the Smart Cities Center committee of the Data Science Institute. Her Alliance short-term visiting professorship at École polytechnique (2024), hosted by Claudia D'Ambrosio, aimed to develop collaborations with colleagues there working on related topics.

Sean Treacy is a Ph.D. student in Chemistry at Columbia University where he conducts research on the photocatalytic functionalization of C-H bonds in the Rovis Group. His research has focused the remote functionalization of aliphatic amines through nickel-photoredox catalysis and the intermolecular alkylation of feedstock alkanes with electron deficient olefins via copper catalysis. He received his BA from Princeton University in 2016 in Chemistry along with a certificate in Materials Science and Engineering.

Scott Barrett is a Columbia University economist specializing in climate change and international cooperation. He has long-standing ties with European institutions: he serves on the advisory board of IDDRI at Sciences Po, taught a PhD course at Paris 1 in 2015 and has participated in the Alliance Summer School. As an Alliance visiting professor at École polytechnique during his 2016-17 sabbatical, he worked on a new book on climate change, which he describes as the biggest collective action problem in human history.

Scott Barrett is a Columbia University economist specializing in climate change and international cooperation. He has long-standing ties with European institutions: he serves on the advisory board of IDDRI at Sciences Po, taught a PhD course at Paris 1 in 2015 and has participated in the Alliance Summer School. As an Alliance visiting professor at École polytechnique during his 2016-17 sabbatical, he worked on a new book on climate change, which he describes as the biggest collective action problem in human history.

Saskia Sassen is a sociologist at Columbia University and a member of its Committee on Global Thought. In Territory, Authority, Rights (Princeton University Press, 2006), she argues that today's foundational transformations take place largely inside national environments and institutions, through denationalizing as well as globalizing dynamics. She is the author of eight books, translated into twenty-one languages, and has taken part in large collective projects such as The Urban Age. She was an Alliance one-month visiting professor at Paris 1 in 2011.

Sarah Tanke is a PhD candidate in political science/international relations at Sciences Po, working on Japanese multilateral diplomacy. She holds an M.A. in Political Science/International Relations from Sciences Po and an International M.A. in Japanese Studies from the University of Hamburg, including a stay at INALCO in Paris. She spent two years studying in Japan, including as an assistant at the Nihon University Population Research Institute in Tokyo, and worked at the United Nations Development Programme in New York.

Sarah H. Cleveland is a professor at Columbia Law School and co-director of its Human Rights Institute. Her teaching and research cover international law, human rights, transitional justice and the constitutional law of U.S. foreign relations. As an Alliance visiting professor at Sciences Po, she proposed courses in these fields, including one on the law and practice of the UN human rights mechanisms, and pursued research on comparative approaches to counterterrorism and human rights at the intersection of human rights law and the law of armed conflict.

Sara Panata is a PhD student in History at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. Her research focuses on women's history in southern Nigeria from 1945 to 1999, examining how women mobilized collectively to obtain socio-economic and political rights at the city, national and international levels. Her work is part of the project "Mobilisations and identity in West Africa" supported by IFRA-Nigeria and the CNRS. At Columbia she researched gender constructions, women's collective mobilizations and the circulation of feminisms between Nigerian and African-American experiences (1945-1991).

Sara Legrandjacques is a PhD candidate in Contemporary History affiliated with the Centre d'Histoire de l'Asie contemporaine (CHAC) at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and with UMR Sirice. Her research examines student mobility in colonial Asia (1850s-1940s) through a comparative study of British India and French Indochina, combining connected and global history with colonial history and the history of education. She teaches the history of Asia at Paris 1 and is assistant editorial secretary of the Bulletin de l'Institut Pierre Renouvin.

Sandra Renou is a PhD candidate at the Interdisciplinary Institute for Innovation - Management Research Center (i3-CRG, UMR CNRS 9217) and an assistant professor at École polytechnique. She specializes in strategic management and organization studies. Her PhD research focuses on the collective strategies of firms in the renewable energy industry and on firms' collective action devices, especially meta-organizations, with a broader interest in the energy transition and grand challenges such as climate change.

Rotem Gerstel is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice encompasses sculpture, video, installation, drawing, and sound. Born in Israel in 1988, she currently lives and works in Paris. Gerstel holds a BFA from Bezalel Academy of Art in Jerusalem, a post-diploma in Arts in Sound from the European Postgraduate Program at KASK Academy of Art in Ghent, and a master’s degree from Paris 8 University. She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in creative research at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University, where her research investigates the concept of audio-visual flux through the lens of new materialism. 

Gerstel has participated in a variety of artist residencies, including the Cité Internationale des Arts and DOC! in Paris, as well as Werkraum Warteck PP in Basel. Since 2020, she has been part of the Poush residency in Paris, where she continues to develop her artistic practice. She has exhibited in numerous group shows across Europe, including at Galerie Bertrand Grimont and Galerie Charraudeau in Paris, as well as KIOSK in Ghent. In 2018, Gerstel co-founded THE REAL, a traveling radio station with artist Simone Etter, which broadcasts the artistic activities and projects emerging from artists' residencies. 

Alongside her creative and academic pursuits, Gerstel has established a strong path in art education. She holds an Art Teaching Certificate for Secondary School from Kibbutzim College in Tel Aviv. She has worked in art mediation in Paris for the past seven years, collaborating with prestigious institutions such as the Palais de Tokyo, Bourse de Commerce, and the Centre Pompidou. Gerstel has also lectured at the Open University of Israel, the Eretz Israel Museum in Tel Aviv, and Bezalel Academy of Art in Jerusalem.

Rosanne Craveia holds a Master’s Degree in International Law and International Organizations from Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University and a LLM in International Human Rights Law from Oxford Brookes University (UK).

She is now a Ph.D. candidate in International Law at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University where she conducts her research on extractive industries and human rights, under the supervision of Professors Laurence Dubin and Evelyne Lagrange. Her thesis focuses on issues of responsibility and is based on the in-depth study of rigorously selected real cases in which human rights violations are alleged.

Rosanne was also a teaching assistant at the Sorbonne Law School for three and a half years: she has taught Public International Law, International Economic Law, International Relations, Administrative Law and Fundamental Rights.

Rosalie Ray is a PhD student in Urban Planning at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. She received her B.A. in Economics from Smith College and her Master's in Urban and Regional Planning from UCLA, and previously worked as an economist at the U.S. Department of Transportation. Her dissertation focuses on institutions in transportation planning and the institutional change needed to shift to just, sustainable transport. Past research has explored the effects of transit construction on local businesses and displacement, collaboration between city transportation departments and transit agencies to prioritize buses, and the prospects of fare-free transit in the United States.

Romain Le Cour Grandmaison is a doctoral candidate at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. His thesis offers a sociology of violent groups through the case of criminal organizations in Michoacán, Mexico, drawing on fieldwork in the Tierra Caliente region, where self-defense militias (autodefensas), federal police, the army and criminal groups compete for control of territory considered to lie "at the margins of the State."

Rodolfo de la Garza is a professor of political science at Columbia University. He spent a month as an Alliance visiting professor at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne in April-May 2016, where he presented his research in a seminar.

Robert is a PhD candidate in Development Economics at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon- Sorbonne. He focuses in his research predominantly on climate risk and disaster adaptation in a development context. Hereby, instead of solely spotlighting the macro dimension of the international finance-climate nexus, he chiefly centers his research around local economic impacts of (climate) disasters in developing countries measured, amongst others, by high resolution satellite imagery. To improve his understanding of applied disaster models, he has spent part of his PhD as a Visiting Scientist at the United Nations University in the Institute of Environment and Human Security in Germany.

Before joining the PhD program in 2021, he obtained a MSc in Economics and a MPhil in Development Economics from Paris 1 after completion of his undergraduate studies in Germany.

Robert E. Harrist Jr. is a professor of Chinese art history at Columbia University. His book The Landscape of Words: Stone Inscriptions from Early and Medieval China received the Joseph Levenson Prize of the Association for Asian Studies (2010). He was Slade Professor of Fine Art at the University of Cambridge (2006-07) and has received Columbia's Lenfest Distinguished Faculty Award and an award for distinguished service to the Core Curriculum. He was an Alliance one-month visiting professor at Paris 1 in 2011.

Richard Peña is Professor of Professional Practice in Film at Columbia University and former program director of the Film Society of Lincoln Center. As an Alliance visiting professor at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, he taught a 14-session course on the American avant-garde in film, from its beginnings through Maya Deren, Stan Brakhage, Andy Warhol, structural and feminist film, the diary film, punk cinema and sensory ethnography; he also proposed a course on Latin American cinema.

Richard Peña is Professor of Professional Practice in Film at Columbia University and former program director of the Film Society of Lincoln Center. As an Alliance visiting professor at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, he taught a 14-session course on the American avant-garde in film, from its beginnings through Maya Deren, Stan Brakhage, Andy Warhol, structural and feminist film, the diary film, punk cinema and sensory ethnography; he also proposed a course on Latin American cinema.

Richard Briffault is a professor at Columbia Law School specializing in state and local government law and campaign finance. He is co-author of the casebook State and Local Government Law and of Dollars and Democracy: A Blueprint for Campaign Finance Reform. He has advised numerous New York City and State commissions on charter revision, districting and constitutional revision, and served as Assistant Counsel to New York Governor Hugh L. Carey. He holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School and a B.A. from Columbia. He was an Alliance one-month visiting professor at Paris 1 in 2012.

Richard Balme is a professor of political science at Sciences Po, affiliated with the Centre for European Studies, who teaches and researches comparative politics, public policy and international relations. He was scientific advisor of the Master in International Public Management at PSIA and director of the executive master "Potentiel Afrique," and was a full-time visiting professor at Tsinghua University (2008-2012). His research addresses EU-China relations, Chinese politics and governance, China's environment and climate policy, and comparative environmental governance. His Alliance visiting professorship at Columbia took place in 2016-17.

Reshmi Mukherjee is a professor of physics at Barnard College, Columbia University, specializing in high-energy astrophysics: the study of Galactic and extragalactic gamma-ray sources using ground-based atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes and satellite experiments such as NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. Since her first Alliance visiting professorship in 2014, she has collaborated with Deirdre Horan's high-energy astrophysics group at the Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet (École polytechnique), producing joint publications, PhD projects and a doctoral mobility exchange; her 2024 visit built on this collaboration.

Professor Mukherjee received her B.S. from Presidency College, University of Calcutta and her M.A., MPhil, and Ph.D. degrees from Columbia University. In addition to being a professor, she served as the previous chair of physics and astronomy at Barnard College

Renée Ramona Robinson is a Jamaican-American, but French trained lawyer. She matriculated from Johns Hopkins university for her undergraduate, before continuing to on to graduate cum laude and with merit from Sciences Po and Queen Mary Law School respectively. She will receive her LL.M from Harvard Law School in May 2025. She is a current third-year PhD candidate at Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne in the School of Law. Her research centers on the paradoxical schism of public and private international law impacting the global value chain in the fashion and textile industry, and conversely, how the fashion industry informs the legal processes that construct it. It is focused on the elements of worker rights, environmental litigation, and consumer behaviour, and how these are molded by property rights and analyzed by strands of feminist legal theory. She has previously presented at the London College of Fashion Symposium on “Multiple Experiences in Fashion,” as well as at Tampere University, in Tampere, Finland on fashion related to the climate emergency. 
 

Renaud Le Goix is a geographer at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, where he teaches geography, urban studies and spatial analysis and has served as Vice President for Research. His doctoral research on gated communities in the United States demonstrated their impact on segregation patterns using GIS-based spatial analysis, and he has extended his work to other forms of private urban governance, such as Business Improvement Districts and airport cities. He has been a Fulbright Fellow (UCLA and CUNY) and a Tocqueville Fellow of the French-American Foundation (USC and UCLA).

Rémi Poirot is a PhD candidate in Comparative Constitutional Law and Public Finances at the Sorbonne Law School. His thesis examines the comparative governance of global metropolises, focusing on Greater Paris, Greater London and Greater New York City, under the supervision of Professors Eleonora Bottini and Matthieu Conan. His research analyzes the constitutional, legislative, financial and fiscal arrangements that shape how these metropolises are governed, in order to determine the extent of home rule they enjoy and the ability of local government law to embrace metropolitanization.

Rémi Bazillier is a professor of economics at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, and an expert on labor standards, labor market institutions in developing countries, corporate social responsibility, and mining and development.

Régine Le Jan is a professor of medieval history at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. With Adam J. Kosto of Columbia, she led the Alliance project "Competition in Medieval Europe (c. 500-c. 1300)," which established competition as a new thematic field in early and high medieval history, moving beyond the study of dispute settlement, through workshops in New York and Paris that linked the medieval history programs and younger researchers of both universities.

Raphaël Lee is a graduate of École polytechnique, ENSAE and the Economic Policy and Analysis (APE) master's program at the Paris School of Economics. A PhD candidate at Université Paris-Saclay (École polytechnique) under the supervision of Professor Edouard Challe, he works as a macroeconomist in the Department of Economic Studies at INSEE, the French National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. He specializes in macroeconomics, time series and econometrics, with particular interest in New Keynesian models at the zero lower bound, incomplete markets and financial macroeconomics.

Raphaël Granier de Cassagnac is a CNRS research scientist at École polytechnique and a member of the Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet since 2000. His research focuses on particle and heavy-ion physics, and he is the author of numerous publications within the CMS (Compact Muon Solenoid) collaboration at CERN and the PHENIX heavy-ion experiment. He teaches at École Centrale Paris and École polytechnique, and received his PhD from the University of Paris VI in 2000.

Mrs. Raoudha Sammoudi is a senior magistrate with a long and distinguished career in the Tunisian courts. She has presided over the civil and commercial chamber at first instance and has held the position of advisor to the Tunis Court of Appeal and bankruptcy judge. 

She is in charge of standards compliance monitoring at the Ministry of Justice and is the Ministry's focal point for several projects, including the processing of non-performing loans financed by the World Bank. She has also chaired working groups in charge of drafting legislation on distressed companies, civil and commercial procedures, and mediation. 

She has been a member of several governmental commissions for the elaboration of reforms related to the improvement of the business climate.

Mrs. Sammoudi also has an important experience in negotiating international agreements, leadership and communication. 

She currently teaches at the University of Tunis Carthage and was a trainer at Tunisia's Higher Institute of Magistrates. Mrs. Sammoudi also holds an international TOT (trainer of trainee) and mediation certificate.

Racha Radja is currently a Ph.D candidate in Private International Law at Sorbonne Law School, entering her third year, under the supervision of Professor Pascal de Vareilles-Sommières. Racha holds two master’s degrees, one in European Economic Law and one in Private International Law and International Commercial Law, both from Paris 1 University.

Racha's thesis challenges the dogma of the neutrality of Private International Law, which is very much rooted in the French doctrine, by focusing on the existence of policies underlying the connecting factors of choice of law rules and rules of jurisdiction. She has a strong interest in comparative law, she decided to include European Union Law and American Conflict of Laws in her thesis.

Alongside her Ph.D, Racha is a teaching assistant, She teaches Private International Law and Human rights. She is also the President of the Lex Association, an association of students and alumni of the master’s degree in Private International Law and International Commercial Law.

Quentin Couvreur is a PhD candidate in International Relations at Sciences Po’s Center of International Studies (CERI), where he works under the supervision of Professor Frédéric Ramel. His research focuses on China’s approach to multilateralism and global governance, through the study of China’s policies across the United Nations Development System. He is a member of the Research Group on Multilateral Action (GRAM), funded by the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS).

Quentin Couvreur holds a Master degree in Political Science from Sciences Po (2022). He has also taught various courses to undergraduate students from Sciences Po’s campus in Le Havre, including Comparative Politics and Political Science.

Qiang Du is the Fu Foundation Professor of Applied Mathematics in the Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics and the Data Science Institute at Columbia University, where he has chaired the Applied Mathematics Program and co-chaired the Center for Foundations of Data Science. He received his PhD in Mathematics from Carnegie Mellon University and was previously Verne M. Willaman Professor of Mathematics at Penn State. He is a Fellow of AAAS and SIAM, and his honors include the SIAM Outstanding Paper Prize and the Feng Kang Prize in Scientific Computing.

Qiang Du is the Fu Foundation Professor of Applied Mathematics in the Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics and the Data Science Institute at Columbia University, where he has chaired the Applied Mathematics Program and co-chaired the Center for Foundations of Data Science. He received his PhD in Mathematics from Carnegie Mellon University and was previously Verne M. Willaman Professor of Mathematics at Penn State. He is a Fellow of AAAS and SIAM, and his honors include the SIAM Outstanding Paper Prize and the Feng Kang Prize in Scientific Computing.

Pierre-André Chiappori is the E. Rowan and Barbara Steinschneider Professor of Economics at Columbia University. A former student of the École normale supérieure, he holds the agrégation in mathematics and a doctorate in economics from the University of Paris 1. Before joining Columbia in 2005, he was a professor at the University of Chicago and, in France, a CNRS senior researcher, professor at ENSAE and maître de conférences at École polytechnique and EHESS.

Peter L. Strauss is a professor at Columbia Law School specializing in administrative law. As an Alliance visiting professor with the Chair of the Americas at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and IRJS, connected with the Sorbonne's Master in Digital Law, he studied French governmental uses of computer technology in interactions with the public, and lectured on how American government uses technology, including data disclosure as an alternative to direct regulation, open-government initiatives and public data sets such as Data.gov.

Perrine Ferrer-Lormeau is a PhD candidate in law under the direction of Professor Anne-Marie Leroyer, with a thesis titled "Parentage Law in a Gender Perspective: a Comparatist Approach." She holds a Master 2 in Private Law from the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, which awarded her a full scholarship for her research. Her thesis examines how gender inequalities are institutionalized and perpetuated in parentage law and, through a comparative and multidisciplinary approach drawing on history, anthropology and sociology, addresses contemporary issues in France such as reproductive rights, LGBT parenting and imposed paternity.

Pauline Blistène is a PhD student in Contemporary Philosophy at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne under the supervision of Sandra Laugier. Her dissertation is provisionally titled "The Visibility of Secrecy and the Aesthetics of Reason-of-State Politics: Fictional Representations of Intelligence Agencies in France and America post-9/11." She holds an M.A. in International Relations and Journalism (Sciences Po Lille) and an MSc in International Politics (SOAS, University of London), and has taught international security, political science and political theory at Sciences Po. Since 2016 she has headed the CNRS-funded TESDEM program (Terrorism and TV Series in Democracy: a Franco-American Perspective).

Pauline Nadrigny is an Associate Professor (Maîtresse de conférences HDR) of Philosophy at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, where she is affiliated with the Institut des Sciences Juridique et Philosophique de la Sorbonne (UMR 8103 ISJPS) and the Centre de Philosophie Contemporaine. Her research sits at the intersection of aesthetics, philosophy of art, and sound studies, with a growing focus on environmental aesthetics and philosophical realism.

Education and Early Career

Nadrigny's academic training is among the most distinguished possible in the French system. She ranked first nationally in the Agrégation in Philosophy in 2008 — a highly competitive national teaching examination — and holds a Master's degree from the prestigious École Normale Supérieure (Ulm) in Philosophy (2009), having also completed a Master's summa cum laude at Paris 1. She was awarded her PhD in Philosophy from Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne in 2014, with a dissertation titled "The Concept of Sound Object," supervised by A. Charrak. In 2024, she reached another milestone with her Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches (HDR), titled "The Sound Track: Aesthetics, Realism, and Environment," supervised by Jocelyn Benoist, with an examining committee that included scholars from NYU, Brown University, and EHESS.

Academic Career

Nadrigny has held her position as Associate Professor at Paris 1 since 2016. She previously taught as a lecturer at Sorbonne University (2015–2016) and held a certified high school teaching position in the Lille Academy (2014–2016), including in a Priority Education Network (REP+) school. She was a CNRS Research Fellow in 2019–2020, working on the program "Normativity of Aesthetic Experience" (NormExEsth).

Research

Nadrigny's scholarship is rooted in the philosophy of sound and music, and has expanded into environmental aesthetics and philosophical realism. She has authored three solo monographs: Sonder le monde, Arts sonores, Réalisme et Environnement (MF, 2025), Le voile de Pythagore : du son à l'objet (Classiques Garnier, 2021), and Musique et philosophie au XXe siècle, Entendre et faire entendre (Classiques Garnier, 2015). She also co-authored The Most Beautiful Ugly Sound in the World: à l'écoute de la noise with Catherine Guesde (Éditions MF, 2018), with support from the Centre National du Livre.

Her international profile is strong. She was a Visiting Scholar at Columbia University's Philosophy Department in Spring 2020, invited by Lydia Goehr. She is a member of the International Research Project "Realism as a Philosophical Response to the Challenges of our Time," a collaboration between Paris 1, Bonn University, and Turin University, where she heads the Aesthetics program. She is also co-director of MIACE (Measuring the Impact of Art on Environmental Awareness), a project in partnership with the Paris School of Economics.

Recognition

In 2024, Nadrigny was awarded the CNRS Bronze Medal, one of France's most prestigious recognitions for early-to-mid career researchers. She has received multiple research grants from Paris 1 and the Sorb'Rising program, and has served as an examiner for the ERC Starting Grant and on HCERES evaluation committees.

Editorial and Scientific Service

Nadrigny is co-director of Enceladus Press (distributed by The MIT Press), co-director of the book series "Research in Contemporary Aesthetics" at Vrin, and a member of the editorial board of the Nouvelle Revue d'Esthétique. She is Deputy Director of the Experience & Connaissance research group at ISJPS and a member of the CNU Section 17 (the national body governing philosophy academic appointments in France).

Musical Practice and Public Engagement

Beyond her scholarly work, Nadrigny has a notable creative practice. She performs and records under the name Lodz, with releases on the Tuskuboshi and Wild Silence labels, and has appeared at festivals including Villette Sonique and Les Femmes s'en Mêlent. She is a permanent member of the "Experimental Music" committee for the Prix de l'Académie Charles Cros, and has given a Master Class with Peter Cusack at the Jean Rouch Festival. She is a regular presence in French public intellectual life, appearing on France Culture, France Musique, and Métaclassique, and in televised interviews on Arte, including the program PhantasIA (2024).

Pauline Bozo is currently a PhD candidate in law at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University under the supervision of Marta Torre-Schaub. Her research focuses on the jurisdictional treatment of climate change, and more precisely before the French administrative courts. During her stay at Columbia’s Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, she aims to carry out a comparative study of renewable energy litigation on both sides of the Atlantic.
Prior to beginning her Ph.D., she completed a master’s in public law (Université Paris Nanterre) and one in environmental law (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne). Alongside her research, she teaches and regularly takes part in scientific events on environmental and climate law as part of the Climalex program.

Paul R. Katz is a PhD candidate in Latin American history at Columbia University, where he studies the politics of modern South America. His dissertation explores the rise of systematic torture and its impact on the revolutionary Left within and beyond the military-dominated Southern Cone of the 1970s. He completed his undergraduate degree in history and literature at Harvard (2009), served as a Hauser Human Rights Fellow at Harvard, and received a Specialization in Social Sciences from Argentina's National University of Luján (2018). His research has appeared in the International Journal of Transitional Justice and has been supported by Fulbright-Hays and Columbia GSAS International Travel fellowships.

Paul Audinet is a PhD candidate in contemporary history at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, supervised by Professors Frédéric Tristram and Pierre Vermeren. After two years in a classe préparatoire in Paris, he joined ESCP Business School, where he earned a Master in Management, while simultaneously completing a law degree and a Master’s in economic history at Paris 1. Before devoting himself more fully to his research, he worked in economic diplomacy abroad.

He is preparing a dissertation on the history of Algerian oil from the first discoveries of deposits in the north of the country in 1872 to the nationalisation of hydrocarbons in 1971. He analyses how the French state progressively equipped itself with a powerful oil apparatus by relying on Algeria as a key territorial and legal space - through mining legislation, fiscal and regulatory instruments, and public bodies such as SN REPAL - and how these arrangements, particularly in the period from 1956 to the early 1970s, made Algeria central to French energy security. He then examines how Algerian authorities reappropriated and transformed the inherited structures, leading up to the 1971 nationalisation, which redefined the relationship between France and Algeria and anchored the country’s position in global oil politics.

Patrick is a PhD candidate in economics at Columbia University studying trade, urban economics, and industrial development. He holds an MPA from Princeton University and completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Pittsburgh. Prior to starting his PhD he worked in Yangon, Myanmar as government relations and political risk consultant and for the Asian Development Bank in Jakarta, Indonesia.

Pablo Piccato is a professor of Latin American history at Columbia University. With Nara Milanich and Pablo Pinto, he coordinated the Alliance project "Contemporary Latin America: New Approaches and Research Agendas," a graduate seminar taught by visiting Columbia faculty at Sciences Po in fall 2010, designed to build long-term exchanges between Latin Americanists at both institutions and to lay the groundwork for a joint MA in Latin American Studies.

Olivier Nay is Professor of Political Science at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and a member of the Centre européen de sociologie et de science politique (CESSP). His fields are development studies, international public affairs, global governance and international organizations, with recent work on institutional change, public administration reform, knowledge production and the transnational circulation of global norms. A first Alliance visiting professorship at SIPA in 2017 allowed him to conduct fieldwork at the United Nations Secretariat and the World Bank; he returned to Columbia as a visiting professor in 2023-24.

Oliver Durnan is a Ph.D. candidate in the Columbia Lab for Unconventional Electronics (CLUE) at Columbia University. He obtained his M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Columbia and his B.Eng. in Electrical Engineering from McGill University. His research focus is the integration of thin-film metal oxide electronics with microLED devices for displays and illumination.

Occitane Lacurie is a PhD student in arts and visual studies at the École des Arts de la Sorbonne (Université Paris 1 – Panthéon-Sorbonne) under the supervision of Olivier Schefer and Christa Blümlinger (Université Paris 8 – Vincennes-Saint-Denis). Her doctoral research aims to enlighten the regimes of visibility and the modes rationality generated by ghostly apparitions and their scientific study. From a history of spectral sciences and an anthropology of techniques aiming at observing or reproducing ghostly phenomena, her dissertation proposes an archaeology of audiovisual media drawing on these paradoxical rationalities and an investigation of the artistic forms derived from them that still haunt our visual culture. At Université Paris 1 and Université Paris 8, she works as a teaching assistant in film studies and in philosophy of art. Prior to her doctorate, she completed two Master’s degrees in film studies and in arts at the ENS de Lyon and the EHESS.

Occitane is also a film critique for the French cinema journal Débordements and the cultural podcast of the newspaper Mediapart. She programs Débordements’ film club in the Saint- André-des-Arts cinema in Paris.

I am an Assistant Professor in the Economics Department at Columbia University. My research areas are macroeconomics and finance.

Research

The Crowding Out Effect of Local Government Debt: Micro- and Macro-Estimates

Conditionally accepted, American Economic Review

How Steep is the Phillips Curve in Developing Economies? A Sufficient Statistics Approach and Estimates for India

with Juan Herreño (UCSD) and Malte Thie (Paris Dauphine)

Growth, Firm Scale, and the Energy Intensity of Production

with Kathryn McDonald (Columbia) and Conor Walsh (Columbia)

When Private Firms Provide Public Goods: The Allocation of CSR Spending

with Kim Fe Cramer (LSE) and Lucie Gadenne (Queen Mary University London)

Mediating Financial Intermediation

with Aymeric Bellon (UNC Chapel Hill) and Louis-Marie Harpedanne (Banque de France)

Robust Statistics for Monetary Non-Neutrality in Menu Cost Economies

[Draft available soon]

with Beatrice Allamand-Turner (UCSD) and Juan Herreño (UCSD)

Teaching

Undergraduate ECON GU4720: Empirical Macroeconomics & Finance.

Undergraduate ECON GU4913: Financial Policy and Regulation: Fostering Growth and Macroeconomic Stability.

PhD 2nd year ECON GR6226: Applied Macroeconomics & Finance

Nitouche Anthoussi is a PhD candidate in Fine Arts and Art Sciences at the Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University, under the supervision of Professor Jean-Marie Dallet. Her doctoral research is about the appropriation of space in asylums, psychiatric hospitals, prisons, and the world of metaverse, from an artistic, philosophical, and anthropological approach.

At the Columbia University she will be working in residence at the Justice in Education Initiative under the supervision of Professor Neni Panourgiá (Academic Adviser at JIE Initiative). She will be developing a project on comparative carcerality between Ellis Island and Leros (Greece).

Nitouche having previously completed a Master 2 at the same university in Fine Arts and Contemporary Creation. She has also graduated from the School of Fine Arts of the University of Ioannina, Greece. From her great love mathematics, she finds herself in art. She is the first Erasmus international student to have been accepted by the Centre Culturel Georges Pompidou in Paris as a photographer for the main art collection and has participated in several artistic exhibitions in Athens, Paris, Milan, Ioannina and Corinth. In her spare time, Nitouche sails with the Paris 1 university team.

Niklas Schoch is a PhD candidate in economics interested in the interplay of climate policy interventions and firms’ technology choices. In his thesis, he evaluates the incentives of firms to adopt green technology in response to carbon pricing schemes in varying competition environments. To do so, he is estimating a structural model of dynamic imperfect competition, using data on fuel consumption and green investments of industrial installations in France. Prior to joining Sciences Po, he obtained a master’s degree in economics from the University of Mannheim and worked on energy policy as a consultant at the Institute of Energy Economics at the University of Cologne and the International Energy Agency.

Nicolas Delalande is an Associate Professor at the Centre for History at Sciences Po, where he researches and teaches the history of capitalism, political history and transnational history. He co-edited, with Nicolas Barreyre, A World of Public Debts: A Political History (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), the result of an international research project on the global history of public debt developed in dialogue with Columbia's Adam Tooze. He has advised several Columbia PhD students researching in Paris, and spent spring 2022 as an Alliance visiting professor in Columbia's History Department.

Nicolas Ajzenman is a PhD candidate in Economics at Sciences Po. He holds a Master in Public Administration in International Development from Harvard University, a Master in Economics from Universidad de San Andrés and a BA in Economics from the Universidad de Buenos Aires. His research lies at the intersection of political economy, corruption, culture and behavioral economics, with a focus on the determinants of rule compliance and cooperation. His work has been published in the Journal of Law and Economics and Health Economics, and he has consulted for the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, the EBRD and the Office of the Chief of Staff of the National Government of Argentina.

Nicholas Mulder is a PhD student in European and international history at Columbia University and a Richard Hofstadter Fellow, advised by Professors Mark Mazower and Adam Tooze. His dissertation examines the origins and development of economic sanctions in the early twentieth century, focusing on the Anglo-French project to enforce a new international order by using "the economic weapon" to preserve peace and deter aggressor states. He previously studied political thought and intellectual history at Cambridge (MPhil, 2013) and history and economics at University College Utrecht (BA, 2012).

I'm Ness, a French student currently enrolled in a Biomedical Engineering master's program at École Polytechnique. Passionate about healthcare, I'm specializing in Computer science and Artificial Intelligence. Outside of work, I love hanging out with friends, traveling, and reading! I'm beyond excited to discover Columbia and New York City!

I’m honored to join the IICD, under the mentorship of Khanh Dinh and Simon Tavaré. This opportunity will allow me to actively contribute to research advancing our understanding of cancer evolution.

Nathaniel Butler Blondel is a PhD candidate in Economics at Sciences Po Paris. His research examines how fiscal policy, monetary policy, and financial stability interact and constrain one another, with a particular focus on the interplay between central banks and the financial sector. Prior to his PhD, Nathaniel worked as a research assistant at the National Institute of Economic and Social Research and as a trainee at the European Central Bank. During his doctorate, he has held research internships at the Bank of England and the International Monetary Fund. He holds a Masters in Economics from Sciences Po and an undergraduate degree in Economics from the University of Glasgow.

Natasha Marie Llorens is a PhD candidate in modern and contemporary art in the Department of Art History at Columbia University and a graduate of the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College. Her doctoral research focuses on Algerian national cinema and representations of revolutionary violence in the 1960s and 1970s. She writes about North African and Middle Eastern contemporary art and film, feminist politics, philosophies of violence, queer and intersectional politics in art, and post-colonial and ethical curatorial practice.

Natalie Yang is a PhD candidate in Economics at Columbia University. She conducts research in urban economics, with a particular interest in studying urban transportation infrastructure and policies. She received her Bachelor’s degree from Yale University in 2018, majoring in Applied Mathematics and English.

Nadia Urbinati is the Kyriakos Tsakopoulos Professor of Political Theory at Columbia University. With Antoine Vauchez and Magali Bessone of the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, she co-led the Alliance project "Mediterranean Transatlantic Europe," an interdisciplinary study of the European political space and its Mediterranean and Atlantic dimensions with respect to the refugee crisis, freedom of movement, migration policy and borders, bringing together a transatlantic consortium of scholars and PhD students.

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Monica Seiceanu is a PhD candidate at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, affiliated with the HiCSA Research Laboratory (Cultural and Social History of Art). With a Master's degree in Contemporary Art History from the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and a Bachelor's degree in Philosophy, she is specializing in 20th century textile art, particularly in the new tapestry during the Cold War. Her Master’s theses, entitled “The Emergence of Three-Dimensional Textile Works in Europe in the Second Half of the 1960s: Contributions of Magdalena Abakanowicz and Jagoda Buić” and “The Reception of Lenore Tawney’s “Woven Forms” and the Place of Textiles in New York Art in the Second Half of the 20th Century” are available for consultation at the HiCSA Documentation Center at the Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art. In addition to academic research, she is an art critic and also developing an independent curatorial practice.
 

Mohamed Bouabdallah has been appointed Cultural Counselor of France in the United States and Director of Villa Albertine. He officially took office yesterday in New York City.

Working under the authority of the Ambassador of France in the United States, Laurent Bili, Mohamed Bouabdallah will lead France’s strategy for cultural, educational, and university exchanges in the US. This includes directing France’s expansive education initiatives in the US, such as ‘French for All’, and taking the helm of Villa Albertine, the multidisciplinary and innovative arts institution with hubs in 10 cities across the country.

Miriam Schulz completed her B.A. in Judaic Studies and an M.A. in Modern Judaism and Holocaust Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin, and worked at the Jewish Museum Berlin and the Topography of Terror before starting her PhD in Yiddish Studies at Columbia. She has worked as a research assistant for the "Protecting Memory" project on Holocaust mass graves in Eastern Europe and for NYU's Shvidler Project for the History of the Jews of the Soviet Union, and in 2017 co-organized the first Summer University for Yiddish Language and Literature in Berlin. Her dissertation examines Soviet Yiddish Holocaust discourse and commemoration from the beginning of World War II through the Cold War, and has been supported by fellowships including the Harriman PepsiCo Fellowship.

Michalis Vazirgiannis is a professor at École polytechnique, where he heads the Data Science and Mining (DaSciM) team at LIX, working on data science and AI. As an Alliance visiting professor at Columbia's Data Science Institute, he proposed a Master's-level course on "Advanced Machine Learning for Text and Graphs," covering NLP, graph-of-words methods, word and document embeddings and deep learning architectures, based on the course he teaches in the Master MVA.

Michalis Vazirgiannis is a professor at École polytechnique, where he heads the Data Science and Mining (DaSciM) team at LIX, working on data science and AI. As an Alliance visiting professor at Columbia's Data Science Institute, he proposed a Master's-level course on "Advanced Machine Learning for Text and Graphs," covering NLP, graph-of-words methods, word and document embeddings and deep learning architectures, based on the course he teaches in the Master MVA.

Michaël Bourdon is a PhD candidate in Political Science at the Center for International Studies (CERI) of Sciences Po Paris. His research focuses on the transformations of the state, development, and elites correlated with the diffusion of the start-up entrepreneurship model in West Africa, specifically in Togo and Ghana. He is a graduate of the École Normale Supérieure de Paris where he obtained a master's degree in Social Sciences. He is also an associate member of the project African Trust Infrastructure, led by Keith Breckenridge at Wits University in Johannesburg.
 

Research Interest

Signals, Information and Data

Micah Goldblum is an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Columbia University.  His research focuses on deep learning, especially on building safe AI systems and also using mathematical tools to understand how and why deep learning works.  Micah’s research portfolio includes award winning work in Bayesian inference, generalization theory, algorithmic reasoning, and AI security, privacy, and fairness. Micah’s work appears at venues like NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, and CVPR.  In 2022, he received the ICML Outstanding Paper Award.  Before his current position, Micah was a postdoctoral research fellow at New York University with Yann LeCun and Andrew Gordon Wilson before which he received a Ph.D. in mathematics at the University of Maryland under Tom Goldstein and Wojciech Czaja.

For more information on Dr. Goldblum's work and contributions to the field, please visit his personal website, Google Scholar profile, and follow him on Twitter.

Meryl Lavenant is a PhD candidate at the History department in Paris I – Panthéon Sorbonne University in France. She is an alumnus of the École Normale Supérieure, and studied Russian language at Inalco (Paris). She is passionate with foreign languages and masters French, English, Italian, Spanish and Russian.

Her research deals with the Russian southern expansion and the maritime aspects of the imperial project developed in the Black Sea region from 1774 to the late nineteenth century. Meryl proposes a work at the crossroads of imperial and maritime History, paying special attention to the importance of space in imperial dynamics and representations. She is particularly interested in reflecting on methodological challenges, in a context of difficult access to archives in Ukraine and Russia.

Apart from her research activity, Meryl teaches in the Sorbonne and would like to explore the various and innovative ways in which historical research can be publicized.

I’m Merwan, a third-year Applied Mathematics student at Polytechnique. I’m passionate about using math to tackle real-world problems, and I became especially interested in biology after discovering the opportunities at the crossroads of quantitative methods and the life sciences. In the long run, I aim to work in AI for biology & health to help speed up research and discovery. I’m also a sports enthusiast: I competed in triathlon for ten years and played midfield for Polytechnique’s soccer team. I also love traveling and have previously worked in London and Singapore. Now I’m thrilled to experience Columbia’s research environment in the U.S!

I’m excited to learn from an experienced research team and deepen my understanding of AI and the power of transcriptomic methods. I’m also thrilled to discover New York City along the way!

Meltem Yildiz is a PhD candidate at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, pursuing her studies in arts, aesthetics and sciences of arts. Her academic journey includes an MA in Visual Arts and Contemporary Creation from the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, as well as an MA in Visual Arts from the University of Bordeaux-Montaigne. She kickstarted her academic pursuits with a BA in Graphic Design from the University of Haliç (Istanbul), which notably featured an Erasmus student exchange program at the Academia di Belle Arti of L'Aquila in Italy. With a diverse educational background, she brings a wealth of experiences to her research and academic endeavours. Her professional journey includes serving as a mediator at the Sorbonne Art Gallery, where she actively engaged with artistic expression and curation. Currently, she leverages her expertise by delivering lectures on professional English applied to fine arts. A member of the Institut Acte (Art, Creation, Theory, Aesthetic), she actively participates in various exhibitions and seminars in Paris, Istanbul, Berlin, Athens and L’Aquila, contributing to the vibrant discourse surrounding art and its intersections with society. Her research transcends disciplinary boundaries, exploring the nexus of arts, sociology, geopolitics, and political sciences. Her work in participatory arts seeks to harness the theories, experiences, and approaches of social sciences as an artistic medium. By creating spaces for viewers to question and confront socio-politically imposed behaviours and modes of thought, her research aims to provoke critical dialogue and societal reflection.

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Maya Wilson-Sánchez is a curator and a current PhD Candidate in Art History and Archeology at Columbia University. Her work centers on the development, movement, and exchange of art across the Americas. Wilson-Sánchez’s writing can be found in various publications including The Senses and Society Journal, The Journal of Visual Culture, Contemporary HUM, PUBLIC Journal, and the book Other Places: Reflections on Media Arts in Canada. Wilson-Sánchez was an Editorial Resident at Canadian Art, a Curatorial Resident at the Art Museum at the University of Toronto, and an Associate Editor at C Magazine. They were the 2020 recipient of the Middlebrook Prize for Young Canadian Curators and a 2021 participant at the Tate Intensive in London, UK. She curated Intra-Action: Live Performance Art (2016, 2017) at Xpace Cultural Centre, Living Room (2017) at the Royal Ontario Museum, and Grounding (2020) at the Art Gallery of Guelph. Most recently, she served as one of the main curators for Toronto’s Year of Public Art, curating the 2021-2022 exhibition series I am Land, and the 2023-2024 show Replicas and Reunions: Ancient and Contemporary Ceramics from Ecuador at the Gardiner Museum.

Maya Chehade is a French-Syrian second-year Ph.D. student at Sciences Po Paris. Maya has worked for several years in the private sector with Syrian refugees in the Middle East, before starting her doctoral research at Sciences Po on the topic of “the impact of the private sector on Syrian refugees in Jordan”. During the Alliance Doctoral Mobility, she will work with ASPIRE, a Columbia University Research Project on Syrian refugees that include researchers and partners at local universities, governmental agencies, NGOs, and the UN in Jordan. Her doctoral mobility at Columbia aims to capitalize on data collected by ASPIRE in 2016 and 2018 to help the progress of her dissertation in a context of difficulty of access to the fieldwork due to the Covid-19 Pandemic.

Matylda Borcuch is a Ph.D. student at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University under the supervision of Professor Pierre Wat. She holds a Master’s degree in Art History from the Fine Arts Academy in Warsaw and in French Modern Letters from the University of Warsaw. Specializing in the field of Polish Artists in France in the 20th century, her Master’s thesis on the exhibition Autour de Bourdelle: Paris et les artistes polonais. 1900-1918 received distinction in the competition held by the National Art Gallery Zachęta in Warsaw and the Gessel Foundation.

Currently, she is focusing on her thesis dedicated to the Polish-Jewish painter Alice Halicka (1889-1974), who lived and created in France upon 1912. During her stay at Columbia, Matylda Borcuch will explore the lesser-known American chapter of Halicka’s career in the 1930s, including research in archives of different institutions, among others: MoMA, The New York Public Library for Performing Arts, Yale University Art Gallery. A stay at the American institution will be also an opportunity to enrich her research with new methods and examine the reception of Halicka’s art in the US.

In addition to her doctoral dissertation, Matylda Borcuch works in the cultural field between France and Poland and has collaborated with different institutions such as Bourdelle Museum or Polish Institute in Paris.

Matthias Thiemann is a sociologist, with close affinities to political economy. On the one hand, he is analyzing the attempts of financial regulators in Europe and the US to control the risk taking behavior of agents in the financial industry, an attempt complicated by the fact that these agentsgain from evading such control. On the other hand, Matthias Thiemann is investigating post-crisis regulatory changes in the US asking why certain ideas that gained prominence post-crisis are translated into policy tools, while others are eschewed by policy makers. Methodologically, he is drawing on expert interviews and document analysis, but also citation network analysis and topic modeling.

CURRENT PROJECTS

KNOWLEGPO - Central banking in hard times: Knowledge, legitimacy, and politics (2023-2026)

EvalEU 2 - Evaluating Blended Finance in the EU (2023-2025)

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Matthias Preindl is an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at Columbia University and Founding Director of the Center for Advanced Electrification. His Alliance short-term visiting professorship at École polytechnique (2025-26) aimed to build research collaboration and partnerships in energy efficiency, forecasting of renewable generation and flexible loads, and resilient smart grids, pursuing joint research on smart inverters and battery energy storage with colleagues including Claudia D'Ambrosio and Philippe Drobinski.

Matthew McKelway is a professor of Japanese art history at Columbia University. Having taught Art Humanities at Reid Hall, Columbia's Global Center in Paris, he proposed as an Alliance visiting professor at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (spring 2019) a graduate seminar centered on the direct study of Japanese paintings in Paris collections such as the Musée Guimet and the Bibliothèque nationale de France, examining materials, techniques and insights from recent conservation alongside primary documents and current research.

Matthew Easton is a PhD candidate in economics at Columbia University. His current research interests are primarily in the fields of urban and spatial economics. In particular, he is studying urban growth and decay in the U.S. and France, and also is working on understanding how networks of cities can grow and succeed in developed and developing countries. Prior to beginning graduate work at Columbia in 2019, he graduated from Pennsylvania State University in 2016 and then worked at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.

Mathilde De Sloovere is completing her fourth year in the PhD program at the University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, working under the supervision of Professor Loiseau.

Mathilde holds a Master’s degree in Employment and Labor Law from Paris I Panthéon-  Sorbonne University. She is also graduate in Work Psychology from Paris II Panthéon-Assas. Her doctoral thesis focuses on the question of sick leave through the following subject: « L’arrêt de  travail, symptôme d’un mal-être ou syndrome précontentieux» (i.e. in English : Does the use of  sick leave illustrate a malaise at work or an abusive behavior ?). She has a comparative approach.

In the meantime, Mathilde taught as a teaching fellow and worked as a lawyer for three years in a  law firm.

Mathilde  has  chosen  an  interdisciplinary  approach  that  establishes  a dialogue  between law, psychology, medical, and sociology.
 

Martina Olivero is currently a Ph.D. Candidate and ATER in Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art at the Sorbonne School of Arts, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, where she is a member of the Institut Acte (Aesthetics and Critical Theories of Culture). She holds both BA and MA in Philosophy from Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Milan), with a focus on Existentialism and Psychoanalysis. She then specializes in German Philosophy (XVIII-XX century) and Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School. Her doctoral dissertation questions, with a critical approach, the role of the medium from ancient to contemporary artistic practices and mass culture by dealing with the acknowledgment of original devices, narratives, and representations in a late aesthetics of tragedy.

My original background is in Computational Mechanics and Computational Materials Science. The ultimate aspiration of my current research is to use the fundamental laws of physics and the power of modern computing and imaging facilities to improve cardiology and pulmonology. Generally speaking, my work belongs to the general field of biomedical engineering science, whose objectives are (i) to better understand the phenomenon of life in health and disease, and (ii) to develop and analyze novel concepts and methods for biomedical engineering, i.e., which will be the foundation of objective and quantitative tools for medicine, i.e., for the diagnosis and treatment of patients. More precisely, my research focuses on the development of (i) models of the mechanics of living tissues and organs (mostly the heart and the lungs), (ii) methods and tools for the simulation of such models (which can be used as a prediction tool, i.e., prognosis, but also to investigate competing hypothesis), and (iii) methods and tools for the estimation of model parameters based on clinical data (which can be used to estimate quantities that cannot be measured in vivo, i.e., augmented diagnosis, and to build personalized models, a.k.a. digital twins, that can be used to design patient-specific therapies, i.e., optimized treatment).

Mechanics Department & Solid Mechanics Laboratory, École Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France

Martin Barnay is a Ph.D. candidate and Paul F. Lazarsfeld Fellow in the Department of Sociology at Columbia University. His doctoral dissertation deals with loneliness and social isolation in old age. He uses large, multi-country data sets from the telecare industry to explore the social nature of loneliness.

Martin has MA degrees in Sociology and History, and a BA degree in History and Economics. Prior to joining Columbia, he worked as a researcher at the Centre de Sociologie Européenne in Paris, France

Martial Manet is a Ph.D. candidate in law at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne under the supervision of Professor Jean Matringe. He is a graduate in philosophy, political science and law from the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris and Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.

Based mainly on the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights, his research attempts to identify past and present legal figurations – understood as representations that make a concept legally perceptible and operational – of the notion of people, as given and constructed by drafters, interpreters, and all actors in African human rights law.

Martial has chosen an interdisciplinary approach that establishes a dialogue between law, history, anthropology and sociology. These disciplines mobilized and articulated in a coherent manner, make it possible to move away from the law in its positive form by “historicizing” it, socializing it, and reintegrating it into the historical, social, and political environments of its emergence and contemporary practice.

Mark Lilla is a Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University. French politics, history and culture have been central to his intellectual life since the late 1980s, when he studied at the École des hautes études while completing his doctorate at Harvard. He co-founded the New French Thought series at Princeton University Press and was named to the Ordre des Palmes académiques in 1995. Several of his books have appeared in French, including Le Dieu mort-né and La Gauche identitaire. As an Alliance visiting professor, he taught a graduate course in political theory at Sciences Po.

Marie-Emmanuelle Pommerolle is a political scientist (maître de conférences) at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and CEMAf, and co-editor of the journal Politique africaine. Her research focuses on Cameroon and on collective mobilization and protest in Africa.

Marie Tiberghien is a Ph.D. candidate in Law at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. Her dissertation, “Criminal Law and Lobbying”, examines how criminal law and the criminal justice system address lobbying-related conduct in France and the United States. She holds a Master’s degree in Criminal Law from Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and a Master’s degree in History of Philosophy from ENS Ulm and EHESS. She has passed the French Bar Exam and previously served as a Law Clerk at the Paris Judicial Court. Alongside her research, she teaches Constitutional Law and Criminal Law to undergraduate students.

Marie Robin is a third-year Ph.D. student in French colonial history at Columbia University where she studies the intersectionality of gender, race, sexuality, and military culture in the 20th-century French Empire. Her dissertation, tentatively entitled, “Managing Sex Overseas in the French Army: Bordel Militaire de Campagne (Mobile Field Brothels), Sexual Violence and Decolonization in Algeria and Vietnam (c. 1940-1960s),” provides the first comprehensive analysis of the strategies, policies, and practices employed by the French military to regulate and control sexual behavior and relationships among its troops during the First Indochina War (1946-1954) and the Algerian War (1954-1962) and the impact of these policies on broader processes of decolonization.

Prior to starting her Ph.D. at Columbia, Marie graduated Summa Cum Laude with a BA in History and Middle-Eastern Studies from the American University of Paris (2017) and completed her MA in History at Durham University (2018). Marie writes public-facing history for the Synapsis: A Health Humanities Journal on military prostitution and has translated chapters of the forthcoming Cambridge History of the Vietnam War, vol. 1 & 3.

Marie Ferri is a PhD candidate in history at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne under the supervision of Peter Hallama and Laurence Badel at the Institute for the History of International Relations and Contemporary European History (SIRICE). Her PhD project « Male Domestic Violence: Feminist Engagement and International Organizations (1970–2000)» examines the emergence of domestic violence as an international issue, with a particular focus on the United Nations. Her research explores transnational exchanges and networks among feminist organizations and other actors engaged in combating violence against women and children.

Marie Ferri also teaches an undergraduate course on the history of families in France since the French Revolution at Université Paris Nanterre. She holds a master’s degree in European Studies from the Global Studies Institute in Geneva (Switzerland), where she wrote a thesis on the evolution of the recognition of intimate femicides in Europe since 1976, as well as a bachelor’s degree in history and art history from the University of Lausanne (Switzerland) and Sorbonne University (Paris, France).

Marie Azuelos, based in Paris, FR, is currently a Acting Vice President for International Affairs at Sciences Po, bringing experience from previous roles at Sciences Po. Marie Azuelos holds a 2005 - 2007 Master's Degree in European Affairs @ Sciences Po. With a robust skill set that includes Bioinformatica, Program Evaluation, African Affairs, Capacity Building, Microbiologia and more, Marie Azuelos contributes valuable insights to the industry.

Mariana Silva Porto obtained a first-class joint degree in Classics and Archaeology from the University of Glasgow in 2010 and an MPhil in Classics from the University of Cambridge in 2011. In 2021, after a break in her studies, she obtained a Masters in Heritage and Museums from Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. She is currently doing her PhD as a cotutelle between Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne and the Humbolt-Universität in Berlin, where she is part of the Landscape Archaeology and Architecture program of the Berlin Graduate School of Ancient Studies. The title of her dissertation is ‘The Archaeology of Pre-Classical Attica: Space, Politics, and Society’ and she is supported by a scholarship from the German Foreign Exchange Service (DAAD). 

Mariana Katz is a PhD candidate in History at Columbia University. Her dissertation explores the relationship between state formation and regimes of unfree labor in postcolonial Latin America, with a focus on nineteenth-century Paraguay. Her research, funded by the Social Science Research Council, lies at the intersection of the history of popular politics, the social history of labor, comparative slavery studies, and the scholarship on state making. Prior to starting her graduate studies, Mariana studied history at the University of Buenos Aires, in Argentina, and conducted research on the history of workers and artisans in nineteenth-century Buenos Aires. She has been involved in different public history initiatives, including working as a researcher and exhibition curator at the Museo Nacional del Cabildo in Buenos Aires and co-creating the podcast series The Sounds of Calibán: A History of Latin America through Music. At Columbia, she collaborates with with Separated: An Oral History Project, which documents the experiences of families separated by the Trump Administration’s Zero Tolerance Policy.

María Victoria Murillo is a professor of political science and international affairs at Columbia University, with a PhD from Harvard University. As an Alliance short-term visiting professor at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (April 2016), she taught on citizenship and democracy in Latin America in the 19th and 20th centuries, led a doctoral seminar on the history of the state in Latin America, and gave a public lecture on political economy and public policy in Latin America, strengthening ties between Latin Americanist historians and political scientists at Paris 1 and Columbia.

Maria Stavrinaki is an art historian at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and scientific director of the journal Critique d'art. Her book Transfixed by Prehistory: An Inquiry into Modern Art and Time, completed during a 2018 fellowship at Columbia's Italian Academy, was published in English by Zone Books in 2022. She has longstanding ties with Columbia colleagues in art history, and her Alliance visiting professorship supported her current research on post-WWII American art.

Marco Santoro is a Private and Comparative Law PhD candidate and teaching assistant at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University. He conducts his research on the Europeanisation of maritime law and is member of the editorial committee of the Sorbonne Doctoral Law Review. Prior to starting his PhD, he graduated summa cum laude in Transport Law at the University of Messina and was awarded the Italian 2021 Degree Prize “Prof. Romanelli” in Maritime Law. He also completed the Master program in Diplomacy at the Istituto per gli studi di politica internazionale (ISPI) of Milan. Alongside his studies, Marco conducted a research project on organized crime in the maritime sector, founded by the Fondazione Falcone of Palermo, and published several articles related to his topics of research.

Marcel Nutz is a professor of statistics and mathematics at Columbia University, working in mathematical finance and stochastic analysis. Trained at ETH Zurich, he worked closely early in his career with Nizar Touzi of École polytechnique's Centre de Mathématiques Appliquées (CMAP) and with Bruno Bouchard. His Alliance visiting professorship took him to École polytechnique's Department of Applied Mathematics.

Mame Mor Ndiaye is a first-year PhD Candidate in the Department of Philosophy at Paris 1 Pantheon- Sorbonne University (ISJPS). I am writing a dissertation on “Western universalism and African philosophy: From the universal as principle to the achievement of its effectivity through the common prism of human rights”, under the supervision of the professor Magali Bessone. His research interests lie at the intersection of African philosophies, postcolonial studies and the decolonial approach, both of which are linked to Western philosophical theories.

Mame Mor received the first part of his academic education in Senegal up to the baccalaureate before joining the University of Lille in 2017, where he completed his undergraduate degree. Mame Mor obtained his Bachelor in philosophy (2018), before leaving for Sorbonne University for his first year of research master (2019). The following year, he returned to Lille University where he obtained a master degree in moral and political philosophy (2021), writing a Master thesis on the following topic: "Civil liberty and political liberty in Rousseau's thought", (passed with honors) under the supervision of Pr. Gabrielle Radica. After his master in philosophy, Mame Mor decided to do a second master in business administration at Sorbonne University thanks to an apprenticeship program with Paris City Hall which he obtained last year (2022). However, this year of transition made him feel how much he missed research and that this is what suits him best. Mame Mor decided to prepare a thesis project and to register for a PhD at Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne University.

Mamadou Diouf is the Leitner Family Professor of African Studies at Columbia University. With Laurent Jaffro of the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, he co-leads the African Humanities Project, a collaboration between Columbia, Mohammed VI Polytechnic University and Paris 1 that reinterprets the humanities through an African lens and develops an African humanities curriculum through a series of workshops.

Maialen Salcedo Berrueta is a third-year PhD student in History of Art at the HiCSA laboratory of the Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne. Under the supervision of Prof. Pascal Rousseau (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) and Prof. Xosé Manoel Núñez Seixas (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela), she studies the role of Spanish haute couture in the process of nation-building in Franco’s Spain (1939-1975). This project is generously supported by a doctoral studentship awarded by the Collège des Écoles Doctorales of the Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne.
Fellow of the Casa de Velázquez, she has been a doctoral visiting researcher at the Department of History of Thought and Social and Political Movements at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, under the guidance of Prof. Javier Moreno Luzón, and at the Museo del Traje in Madrid.
Her long-standing interest in the history of Spanish fashion and its links with the contemporary history of Spain has led her to participate in various seminars and conferences in both Spanish and French universities. In line with this commitment, she also serves as secretary of SARTORIA, the Association for Fashion and Art History Research, where she co-organises a monthly doctoral seminar that aims to broaden fashion studies towards an interdisciplinary approach, confronting them with current debates in Art History, such as the decolonial perspective, visual culture, and transcultural history.

Maëlle Gélin is currently a Ph.D. candidate in history at Sciences Po Paris. Her work is at the crossroad of literature, intellectual history, and political history. Her Ph.D. dissertation focuses on the complex transatlantic circulations of the Négritude movement from the 1940s to the present day. Maëlle also teaches an undergraduate course on the history of the 20th and 21st centuries and she works as a teaching assistant for a graduate course on the intertwined relations between literature, history, and social sciences. Prior to joining the Center for History at Sciences Po, Maëlle completed a master’s degree in history at Sciences Po and taught history and geography in the secondary education.

Mae Ngai is a professor of history at Columbia University specializing in immigration, citizenship and transnational history. As an Alliance short-term visiting professor at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne in spring 2015, she taught the course "Histories of transnational migration and citizenship in comparative perspective," examining new methodologies that de-center the nation-state, with case studies from Europe, the United States and Asia.

Madeline Woker is a PhD student in International and Global History at Columbia University in New York. In June 2014, she obtained an MPhil in Modern European History from the University of Cambridge. She holds also a Double Master in European Affairs from London School of Economics and Political Science and Sciences Po Paris. Her dissertation project examines the politics of taxation in the French colonial empire.

LynNell Hancock is a professor of journalism at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, where she has taught since 1996 and directed the Spencer Education Journalism Fellowship. Her specialty is covering education in the broad context of family policy, including juvenile justice, child protection and social welfare, with a focus on racial and social inequality in public education. Before joining Columbia she reported on education for the Village Voice, the New York Daily News and Newsweek. Her Alliance visiting professorship at Paris 1's CESSP supported research on immigrant schools and populations in the banlieues of Paris.

Luz Colpa is a fourth-year doctoral student in African history at Columbia University. Her interests include the history of household, family, and gender in twentieth-century West Africa and late-imperial France. Her dissertation is a history of out-marriage or marriage between individuals from different natal communities (1939-1980). From 2017-2018 She served as the Co-President of the Columbia Graduate History association.

Prior to starting her Ph.D. at Columbia, Luz graduated Summa cum Laude with a B.A. in Interdisciplinary Studies from SUNY Stony Brook with Minors in Post-Colonial History and Literature. Luz then served as an ESL teacher in Peace Corps Azerbaijan (2012-2014). In 2016 she completed an M.A. in History and Literature at the Columbia Reid Hall Program in Paris. In 2017 she completed an M.A. in History and Civilization at the EHESS in Paris.

Lukas Wahden is a PhD candidate at Sciences Po Paris (CERI) and an Associate Fellow with the Russia Program at George Washington University. His research examines Russian foreign and security policy, with a particular focus on Russia’s approach to the governance of international ‘frontier’ domains, including the polar regions, the deep sea, and outer space. Lukas has held research positions at the Institut de Recherche Stratégique de l'École Militaire in Paris and the German Association for East European Studies in Berlin, and was a Yenching Scholar at Peking University. He speaks English, German, French, Russian, and Mandarin Chinese, and is the editor of 66° North, a monthly newsletter on Arctic security and politics.

Luis Vassy is President of Sciences Po and Administrator of the Fondation nationale des sciences politiques. Prior to this appointment in October 2024, Luis served for twenty years as a French Diplomat (2004- 2024). He specialized on South Asia and nuclear non-proliferation, before taking the role of press advisor and spokesperson at the Embassy of France in Washington, DC. (2008-2012). Between 2012 and 2017, Luis held several senior roles within the French Ministry of Defense, first as Deputy Diplomatic Advisor, then as chief of staff to the Minister of Veterans Affairs, before taking the position of advisor to the Minister of Defense.
In 2017, he was appointed deputy chief of staff to the Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs, Jean-Yves Le Drian. In 2019, he served as Ambassador of France to the Netherlands and Permanent Representative to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW). Upon his return to France, he took the role of chief of staff of successive ministers for Europe and Foreign Affairs, Catherine Colonna and Stéphane Séjourné.
Luis has been a lecturer in international relations at Sciences Po and at the University of Paris I. He is a graduate of the École normale supérieure de Cachan in Economics, of Sciences Po in Public Administration and of the École nationale d'administration (ENA).

Lucile Dehouck is a PhD candidate working at the intersection of environment, development, and migration economics. In her thesis project entitled “Climate-induced forced migration”, she aims to contribute to a better understanding of the relationship between migration and climate. To this end, Lucile uses econometric techniques and data science tools to provide new empirical evidence in those fields. She likes using satellite data and remote sensing products to help answer policy questions. As an applied development economist, she is also aiming to directly contribute to the knowledge of the impact of climate change in the Global South.

Before coming to Columbia, Lucile obtained a master’s degree in economics from the Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay and Polytechnique.

Lucas Gerin is a mathematician at École polytechnique working in combinatorial probability and its applications to statistical mechanics. His research describes the limit behavior of random combinatorial objects such as permutations, graphs and paths, with a focus on new limiting objects and universality phenomena, including the Brownian separable permuton (Annals of Probability, 2018) and exactly solvable models in last-passage percolation. His Alliance visit to Columbia's Mathematics Department was hosted by Professor Ivan Corwin.

Louise Guillouet is a PhD student in economics at Columbia University, interested in industrial organization and its application to environmental and development issues. Her work includes a theoretical project on the Precautionary Principle, an empirical project based on surveys of local workers in foreign firms studying the spillovers of foreign direct investment in Myanmar, and a project on organic agriculture in the United States. She holds a master's in economics from the Paris School of Economics and a joint bachelor's degree in Science and Social Science from Sciences Po and Université Pierre et Marie Curie.

I am a French student at École Polytechnique (Class of 2027), where I major in computer science and biology with a strong interest in computational approaches to complex biomedical questions. I previously completed the highly selective Classes Préparatoires at Lycée Stanislas in physics and chemistry, and was selected to be part of the French team at the 2022 International Chemistry Olympiad. Before that, I obtained my French Baccalauréat with highest honors at Lycée Fénelon Sainte‑Marie, with a focus on mathematics and physics.

My research experience spans cancer genomics, RNA biology, and applied machine learning. At Columbia University, I will work on developing an inference algorithm to cluster mutational site frequency spectra in cancer, under the supervision of Prof. Tavaré. At ESPCI and École Polytechnique, I work on synthetic RNA design, modeling RNA conformational dynamics, and sequence–structure relationships using molecular simulations and AI‑based analysis. I am also involved in a project at the BIOC laboratory and Institut Curie on collective breast cancer cell migration, combining microscopy, knockout analysis, and computational modeling to understand cytoskeletal regulation.

Beyond academia, I have worked on AI deployment in industry at McKinsey, contributed to an AI‑based voice and acoustic analysis system to help triage emergency medical calls for the French SAMU. Outside of research, I am a black belt in Shotokan karate, an experienced high‑altitude trekker, and a long‑time violinist.

I look forward to working with the team to develop and test new statistical and machine learning approaches on real cancer genomic data.

Louis Chauvel is a sociologist (professor at Sciences Po at the time of his visit) whose research focuses on social inequalities, birth-cohort divides and welfare state transformations in Europe. He shows that France and other Southern European welfare regimes over-protect insiders at the expense of young adults, immigrants and women, drawing on three decades of comparative data from twelve countries. His Alliance year at Columbia (2011-12) supported a book project on European welfare states, cohort inequalities and the generational challenge.

Lotte Houwink ten Cate is a PhD candidate in the Department of History at Columbia University and a Visiting Fellow at the Freie Universität Berlin. Her dissertation is an intellectual history of the classifying and criminalizing of domestic and sexual violence across Western Europe since 1970. For her dissertation research she has been awarded Chateaubriand, DAAD and GSAS International Travel Fellowships, as well as the Jerrold Seigel Fellowship for Intellectual History. She previously held a Fulbright Fellowship and the Leo Baeck Fellowship for German-Jewish History.

Lorenzo M. Polvani is a professor at Columbia University specializing in atmospheric and climate science, with a focus on the stratosphere and middle atmosphere. He has chaired the American Meteorological Society's Committee on the Middle Atmosphere, co-chaired the Whole Atmosphere Working Group of the Community Earth System Model, and co-authored the chapter on global ozone in the UNEP/WMO Scientific Assessment of Ozone Depletion (2006). His Alliance visiting professorship was at École polytechnique (2014-15).

Lison Le Guen is currently a third-year PhD student in Art History at the HiCSA laboratory of the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and she is also part of the doctoral program “Theories and Practices of fashion” between Institut Français de la mode and Université Paris 1 Panthéon- Sorbonne. She is writing a thesis entitled “Hubert de Givenchy, a French couturier in the United States (1952-1995)”, under the supervision of Prof. Pascal Rousseau and with the support of the Heritage department of Givenchy (LVMH). Her research focuses on the presence and the influence strategy of one of the most important French couturiers of the second half of the 20th century, and transatlantic ties in fashion in the aftermath of World War II. Combining cultural history, global history and material culture, this study is supported by two-month research stays in the United States which enabled her to collaborate with numerous American institutions. In addition, her long standing interest in the history of French Haute couture and its links with the American context has enabled her to participate in several conferences and academic workshop in French Universities. Moreover, she is also secretary of SARTORIA, a research association in Fashion and Art History, where she was able to manage the communications and social media division, write articles about the different seminars, and organize events such as the major performance evening “Défaire les censures” (Undoing Censorship), which took place in May 2025 at the French Institute of Art History.

Liliana Borcea is the George P. Livanos Professor of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics in the Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics at Columbia Engineering.

Her research interests are in applied mathematics, with particular interests in wave propagation in random media with applications to wave-based imaging and free space optical communications; inverse problems for hyperbolic, elliptic, and parabolic partial differential equations; and data-driven reduced order modeling and applications to inverse problems.

Professor Borcea earned her undergraduate degree in Applied Physics from the University of Bucharest in Romania and her PhD in Scientific Computing and Computational Mathematics (SCCM) from Stanford University. Following a one-year postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Applied Mathematics at Caltech, she joined the faculty in the Department of Computational and Applied Mathematics at Rice University in 1996 and was named the Noah Harding Professor in 2007. She then joined the Mathematics faculty at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where she has been the Peter Field Collegiate Professor of Mathematics since 2013.

Professor Borcea was recognized as the AWM-SIAM Sonia Kovalevsky Lecturer for 2017, selected "for her distinguished scientific contributions to the mathematical and numerical analysis of wave propagation in random media, array imaging in complex environments, and inverse problems in high-contrast electrical impedance tomography, as well as model reduction techniques for parabolic and hyperbolic partial differential equations." She is a member of the 2018 class of SIAM Fellows and was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2023.

Research Interests

Wave propagation in random media with applications to wave based imaging and free space optical communications; Inverse problems for hyperbolic, elliptic and parabolic partial differential equations; , Data driven reduced order modeling and applications to inverse problems; Scientific computing

Leonardo Endrizzi is a PhD candidate at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and the Paris School of Economics, supervised by Tobias Broer and Riccardo Cioffi. His research is in macroeconomics and finance, with a particular focus on the role of inequality in shaping monetary and fiscal policy.

He holds a BA in Economics and a BSc in Mathematics from the University of Trento, an M1 in Economics from Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, and an M2 in Economics from the Paris School of Economics.

Leo Liberti is a CNRS research director at LIX, École polytechnique, working in mathematical optimization. His Alliance visiting professorship at Columbia's Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, in a reciprocal exchange with Daniel Bienstock, focused on optimization methods for Alternating Current Optimal Power Flow (ACOPF) problems and secure power grid operation.

Léo Denis is a PhD candidate at the Management Research Center (CRG-i3) of École Polytechnique since 2022. His research lies at the intersection of the Finance and Strategic Management fields. It focuses on the development of sustainable finance and impact investing strategies in the private markets, as well as their performance and legitimacy. Before joining CRG, he graduated from École Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay and worked in private equity firms for several years.

Lélia Roche is a PhD student in History at Columbia University, where she studies International and Global History as a Richard Hofstadter Fellow. Her research explores the history of policy planning and forecasting during the Cold War and post-Cold War periods. More specifically, she studies the elaboration, circulation, and competition of West European and American visions of the future of the international system during the 1980s and 1990s. Prior to starting her PhD at Columbia, Lélia completed an M.A. in History (cum laude) and a B.A. in Politics and Government (summa cum laude) at Sciences Po Paris. She also studied history and international relations at the London School of Economics. Lélia’s contributions to research include co-organizing Columbia University’s “International History Workshop” and serving as a Research Assistant at Columbia’s “History Lab.” Her work has or will be published in the Revue d’histoire diplomatique and Cold War History, and has been supported by the Scowcroft Institute of International Affairs and the Transatlantic Studies Association.
 

Lélia Roche is a PhD student in History at Columbia University, where she studies International and Global History as a Richard Hofstadter Fellow. Her research explores the history of policy planning and forecasting during the Cold War and post-Cold War periods. More specifically, she studies the elaboration, circulation, and competition of West European and American visions of the future of the international system during the 1980s and 1990s.

Prior to starting her PhD at Columbia, Lélia completed an M.A. in History (cum laude) and a B.A. in Politics and Government (summa cum laude) at Sciences Po Paris. She also studied history and international relations at the London School of Economics.

Lélia’s contributions to research include co-organizing Columbia University’s “International History Workshop” and serving as a Research Assistant at Columbia’s “History Lab.” Her work has or will be published in the Revue d’histoire diplomatique and Cold War History, and has been supported by New York University’s Consortium for Cultural and Intellectual History, the Scowcroft Institute of International Affairs, and the Transatlantic Studies Association.

Leandro P. Peredo, born in Brazil, is an architect and urban planner. After several years as an architect, he received a full European Union scholarship for an international Master's on cultural heritage and landscapes, and has since specialized in conservation policies for cultural heritage. He has worked for UNESCO on the implementation of the World Heritage Convention in Latin America and the Caribbean. A PhD candidate in Urban Planning at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, he studies urban informality within the United Nations framework, analyzing how the UN New Urban Agenda will affect informal settlements in Rio de Janeiro.

Léa Dousset is a Ph.D. candidate at the Université Paris 1 – Panthéon Sorbonne, Paris School of Economics under the supervision of Julien Grenet. Her research is in the field of the economics of education, with a particular focus on the under-representation of female students in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) studies and careers in France.

She holds a dual B.A. from Sciences Po Paris in social sciences and in applied mathematics from Université Paris 1 – Panthéon Sorbonne, and a M.A. in economics from the EHESS, Paris School of Economics. Prior to starting her Ph.D. at the Université Paris 1 – Panthéon Sorbonne, she worked as a research professional at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business for Rebecca Dizon-Ross and Manasi Desphande.

Lawrence D. Brown is a professor of health policy at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health and a member of the Institute of Medicine. He previously taught government at Harvard University and was a research associate in the Governmental Studies Program at the Brookings Institution.

Laurent Jaffro is a professor of moral philosophy at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. With Mamadou Diouf and Jinny Prais of Columbia and Ali Benmakhlouf, he co-leads the African Humanities Project, a collaboration between Columbia, Mohammed VI Polytechnic University and Paris 1 that reinterprets the humanities through an African lens and, through a series of workshops, develops an African humanities curriculum engaging with the historical, philosophical and cultural dimensions of African intellectual traditions.

A graduate of the French National School of Public Administration (ENA) (Victor Hugo Year, 1989-91), Laurent Bili joined the French Foreign Ministry’s Strategic Affairs and Disarmament Directorate (1991-93).

Seconded to the Defense Ministry as Deputy Diplomatic Adviser (1993-95), he then held several positions at the Quai d’Orsay:

• First Secretary and then Second Counsellor at the Embassy of France in Ankara (1995-99),
• First Secretary, Permanent Representative of France to the Western European Union (WEU) (1998-2000),
• Adviser to the European Union’s interim Political and Security Committee (PSC) in Brussels (2000-02),
• Head of Strategic Affairs (2002).

In 2002, he was Director of the Private Office of the Minister Delegate for European Affairs and became technical adviser at the Diplomatic Unit of the Presidency of the French Republic (2002-07).

He successively held the positions of Ambassador to Thailand (2007-09), Director of the Defense Minister’s Civilian and Military Office (2009-10), Ambassador to Turkey (2011-15) and then to Brazil (2015-17).

Laurent Bili was then Director-General for Global Affairs, Culture, Education and International Development at the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs and G7/G20 Sous-Sherpa (2017-2019).

Prior to his appointment in Washington, Laurent Bili was Ambassador to China since September 2019.

Laurence Tubiana is the founder of the Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations (IDDRI) in Paris and a professor at Sciences Po, where she directed the Sustainable Development Center. She has long participated in international climate negotiations, served as senior environmental advisor to Prime Minister Lionel Jospin (1997-2002) and set up the Directorate for Global Public Goods at the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2009-2010). She has sat on the scientific boards of CIRAD, the India Council for Sustainable Development and the China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development, and founded the journal Le Courrier de la Planète.

Laurence Cuny is a human rights lawyer and researcher. Following her studies in international law at the Geneva Graduate Institute, she was teaching assistant in international public law at this institute for three years. She then joined the World Organization Against Torture (OMCT) as program manager of the Observatory for the protection of human rights defenders. Between 2008 and 2018 she provided support in evaluation and training for the EU and for NGOs human rights programmes. Since 2011, her work focuses on cultural rights and artistic freedom. She collaborates on a regular basis with the mandate of the Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights (artistic freedom, marketing practices and cultural rights, cultural rights and public spaces, cultural rights and migration). She has been a member of the UNESCO expert group on the 2005 Cultural Diversity Convention since 2018. In this capacity she authored the report Freedom & Creativity: Defending art, Defending diversity in 2020 and has helped the Secretariat develop a training programme on artistic freedom in the digital environment. As a researcher she is currently doing her PhD at Paris I Sorbonne and the UNESCO Chair on the diversity of cultural expressions at the Faculty of Law, Université Laval in Québec. Her recent publications focus on relocation of artists at risk in Latin America (Ifa, 2020), working conditions and status of the artist (IFACCA, 2022), artistic freedom in the digital environment (Lex Electronica, 2023), Art and Human rights (Elgar, 2023). In 2023 she joined the group of experts of Columbia University Global Freedom of Expression Programme.

Laure Colin joined the Centre de Recherche en Gestion of l'École Polytechnique in September 2021 after working in a Parisian consulting firm.

Her thesis focuses on the management of defense innovation projects and the functioning of the French public defense innovation agency.

Laura Chaubard, Director-General of École polytechnique has also been entrusted with the interim role of president of the School's Board of Directors, as of September 17th, 2023.

Eric Labaye's term as Chairman of X, which he had held since 2018, ended on September 16th. Eric Labaye's role as President of the Institut Polytechnique de Paris also came to an end on this date. École polytechnique is one of the founding Schools of the Institut Polytechnique de Paris, alongside ENSTA Paris, ENSAE Paris, Télécom Paris and Télécom SudParis.

The ministerial order appointing Laura Chaubard, issued by the Minister of the Armed Forces on September 13th, states that the Director General of the École Polytechnique, "is responsible for acting as president of the Board of Directors of the École Polytechnique, as of September 17th, 2023".

At the same time, Professor Thierry Coulhon was appointed acting Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Institut Polytechnique de Paris.

After completing her studies at École Polytechnique, Laura Chaubard joined the Corps de l’Armement, a high level engineer and public servant body in charge of the French State armament policy, and pursued a PhD in algorithms at the University of Paris Diderot (Paris VII), focusing on the theory of formal languages from 2002 to 2006.

In September 2006, she joined the General Directorate for Armament (DGA), the French Defense procurement agency, where she held technical responsibilities for six years as an expert in big data and artificial intelligence. Between 2013 and 2016, she was head of the strategic SMEs office in charge of identifying, accompanying and supporting the 600 French SMEs of interest to the Ministry for Armed Forces. From January to August 2017, still within the DGA, she was in charge of budget programming. There, she supervised the work of preparing the 2018-2022 Military Programming Law, in a context of a historic increase in resources for the Ministry for Armed Forces.

In August 2017, she was appointed advisor for innovation and digital technology in the cabinet of the Minister of Armed Forces, Florence Parly. There, she successfully led the creation of the Defense Innovation Agency, the "Definvest" investment fund, the General Directorate of Digital Technology, as well as the drafting of the "Artificial Intelligence" roadmap of the Ministry for Armed Forces.

She took up her position as CEO of the Établissement Public du Parc et de la Grande Halle de la Villette (EPPGHV) in October 2019. Located in the northeast region of Paris, La Villette encompasses a national museum of science and technology, a major architectural complex devoted to music and an urban park dedicated to culture and open to all.

At the head of this public cultural institution, Laura Chaubard was in charge of coordinating the fifty or so players present on site and of supervising the multidisciplinary artistic program hosted in the Grande Halle de la Villette, the park or the new venues staging performances and events

Laura Chaubard is a Knight of the National Order of Merit and a Knight of the Legion of Honor.

I’m Khalid, an engineering student at École Polytechnique specializing in Artificial Intelligence. I grew up in Rabat, Morocco, before moving to Paris to pursue rigorous scientific training in competitive exam preparation classes. This experience strengthened my interest in mathematics and analytical thinking, ultimately leading me to École Polytechnique.

During my studies, I have explored a wide range of disciplines, including applied mathematics, quantum physics, biology, and economics. Among these, I became particularly passionate about statistics and machine learning, fascinated by their ability to model complex systems and generate meaningful insights from data. Over time, this interest evolved into a clear motivation to use AI to improve healthcare and contribute to more efficient, accessible, and innovative health systems. I am especially interested in how machine learning and deep learning can support medical research, health analysis, and decision-making in clinical settings.

At Columbia, I am excited to work with Professor Shalmali Joshi’s team in the Department of Biomedical Informatics, where I hope to deepen my technical skills while contributing to impactful research at the intersection of AI and mental health.

Outside of academics, I am a passionate sports enthusiast. I have always played and followed soccer, and more recently I have taken up tennis, which I find both challenging and rewarding. I also enjoy cooking and experimenting with new techniques and recipes, an interest that has only grown since arriving in France, a country renowned for its culinary culture.

I am thrilled to join Professor Shalmali Joshi’s team at Columbia to work on deep learning approaches that can shed new light on mental health. I’m eager to learn, contribute, and experience the vibrant energy of New York.

Kenneth D. Crews is a copyright scholar who directed Columbia University's Copyright Advisory Office. As an Alliance one-month visiting professor at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne in April 2011, he met with partners including the Institut national d'histoire de l'art (INHA) on copyright issues raised by art and photographic images of art.

Keïsha Corantin is a PhD candidate in geography at University Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne
under the joint supervision of Professor Antonine Ribardière and Professor Géraud Magrin. Her dissertation focuses on the role of armed groups in the informal urban production in Medellín (Colombia). Rooted in political geography, her research is part of a novel approach that addresses the influential role of organized crime in urban planning and organization. She holds a Bachelor's degree in law and another in geography, both from the University Paris1 Panthéon Sorbonne, where she also completed her Master's degree in geography. In 2022,
Keïsha was awarded a research grant from the prestigious Doctoral School of Geography of Paris She also teaches undergraduate courses of Urban geography and Geographic information systems GIS)

Kees van der Beek has been appointed Vice-Provost for Research at École Polytechnique, effective as of February 1, 2023. He will report to Dominique Rossin, Provost, and will succeed Benoît Deveaud. He is in charge of defining the strategy and supervising all activities of the Institution’s 23 research laboratories. He is a member of École Polytechnnique’s Executive Committee and Institut Polytechnique de Paris’ Teaching and Research Committee.

Native of the Netherlands and a physicist by profession, Kees van der Beek began his career as a researcher in the United States in 1996 at Argonne National Laboratory. Two years later and back in Europe, he started a second post-doctorate at the EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) within the Institut de Génie Atomique.

Kees van der Beek continued his career in France from January 1997 at École Polytechnique, as a researcher assigned to Irradiated Solids Laboratory (LSI). From 2002 to 2015, he carried out his research activity in conjunction with teaching at École Polytechnique. In 2009, thanks to his Habilitation to Supervise Research, he obtained the title of Director of Research. He directed LSI from January 2014 until May 2017.

In January 2019, he was assigned to the Centre de Nanosciences et de Nanotechnologies in Palaiseau. He also joined the CNRS Institute of Physics. In January 2021, he was appointed Assistant to the Scientific Director (ADSR) at the CNRS for the Grenoble-Alpes site.

Simultaneously, Kees became Director of the "Physics of Light and Matter" (PhOM) Research Department of the ComUE Université Paris-Saclay from January 2016 to December 2020, then Director of the "Physics of Light and Matter" (PhOM) axis of the Graduate School of Physics of the same university in 2021. The same year, he also became Director of Institut Intégratif des Matériaux of Université Paris-Saclay.

Author of nearly 180 publications in international scientific journals, the new Vice-Provost for Research at École Polytechnique was chairman of the Condensed Matter Physics Division of French Physical Society from 2009 to 2013, chairman of the Condensed Matter Physics Division of the European Physical Society from 2015 to 2020, and he is currently a member of the Executive Committee of the European Physical Society. It has allowed him to establish numerous European contacts, notably through the Institute of Physics (UK), the Deutsche Physikalischen Gesellschaft (Germany), and the Real Sociedad Española de Física (Spain).

Kees van der Beek graduated from University of Leiden in 1988 and 1992 and holds a Diploma in Experimental Solid-State Physics and a PhD in Mathematics and Natural Sciences.

Katharina Tittel is a PhD student at the Sciences Po médialab, the Observatoire Sociologique du Changement, and the Institut Convergences Migrations. Her dissertation studies the voice and representation of different social groups in (social) media discourses on immigration in Germany, France and the UK, and how these relate to political power, group interests and social structure, using mixed computational and qualitative methods. During her Alliance Doctoral Mobility stay she was hosted at the Brown Institute for Media Innovation at Columbia Journalism School. She holds an M.A. in International Economic Policy from Sciences Po.

Kalinka Alvarez-Courtois is a PhD candidate in French and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. She received a B.A. and a Maîtrise in French Literature from the University of Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle, and has taught French and Spanish languages, literatures and cultures in France and the United States. Her dissertation focuses on the Groupe d'Information sur les Prisons, the activist group founded by Michel Foucault, Pierre Vidal-Naquet and Jean-Marie Domenach to denounce prison conditions in 1970s France. As the group's archives are translated into English, her work brings forgotten histories and figures of the group to light and re-contextualizes its role in French intellectual history.

Justine Brisson is currently a Ph.D. candidate in political theory at Sciences Po Paris. She holds a MA in Modern Literature from the Université Sorbonne-Nouvelle, a MA in Political Philosophy (first year) from the École Normale Supérieure, and a MA in Political Theory from Sciences Po. She has taught literature and the history of political ideas at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and at Sciences Po. She is a member of the Editorial Board of Fabula-LhT. Littérature, histoire, théorie. Her research is at the crossroads of literature, philosophy, and political theory. More precisely, she studies the relations between politics and literature in mid-twentieth century France, focusing on the theme of the “neutral” in the works of Maurice Blanchot, Roland Barthes, and Emil Cioran. She aims to question the ethical meaning of the temptation to withdraw from the political. Before joining Columbia, she was a Visiting Fellow at Harvard, where she worked on Blanchot’s archives at the Houghton Library. She has published articles on Michel Foucault, Georges Bataille, Jean-Luc Nancy, Guillaume Dustan and Pascal Quignard.

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Julius is a PhD candidate at Paris School of Economics and Université Paris 1. His research examines alternative peer-to-peer sharing platforms that limit the use of money. He investigates how these restrictions affect user behavior and what they imply for the market design of these platforms. A large part of his dissertation focuses on a popular online platform for trading holiday homes with token money. These tokens are earned by hosting others and can only be spent on visiting other platform users. Using economics theory and econometric techniques for causal inference, Julius studies the design of prices with token money and the impact of interactions with people of different backgrounds on users’ trust. He is also interested in how prices and users’ dual role as hosts and guests shape norms of behavior. Recently, he has started exploring related questions on BlaBlaCar.

Julius holds a MA in Economics and a BA in Philosophy and Economics. Prior to his Master's, he worked at the Center for Impact Evaluations (C4ED), where he evaluated public policies in his field, and at the digital economy department of the Center for European Economic Research (ZEW), where he studied e-commerce and online ratings.

Julien Mabille is currently in the third year of PhD at University Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne under the supervision of Grégoire Loiseau. He studies the means of legal actions Labor Unions have at their disposal. His research puts em hasis on field work, especially in Labor Unions. He studied at Paris 1, where he graduated with a Masters in Labor Law, after a License in Law and Philosophy.

Julie Saada is Professor of Philosophy at Sciences Po Law School. She previously taught at Artois University, the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris-Sorbonne and Lille, and was a CNRS researcher. She holds a PhD and a habilitation from the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon and the agrégation in philosophy. Her expertise covers the history of political and legal philosophy, the philosophy of international law, international justice (war, post-war, transitional and international criminal justice), human rights, critical legal movements and law and literature.

Julian Jürgenmeyer is a PhD Candidate in Columbia University's Department of Sociology. His research lies at the intersection of the sociology of expertise and economic sociology. His dissertation studies how expertise in banking regulation and supervision was problematized and reorganized in the wake of the 2007 Great Financial Crisis, comparing the United States and the European Union with a focus on the role of stress tests. He came to Columbia as a Fulbright Scholar after a BA in Social Sciences from Humboldt University in Berlin, and spent 2021 as a Chateaubriand Fellow at the Centre d'Études Européennes at Sciences Po.

Julia Tomasson is a PhD candidate in the History Department at Columbia University studying the history of science, mathematics, knowledge and material culture, focused on early modern Mediterranean textual cultures. Her research explores how our current standards of proof and persuasion came to be and how other forms and ideals developed and came to be thinkable and unthinkable in different contexts. Her graduate work at Columbia University has been supported by numerous fellowships, including a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship and two Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships (Classical Arabic). Tomasson holds an A.B. from the University of Chicago and an M.A. and M.Phil. from Columbia University.

Josselin Garnier has been a professor in applied mathematics since 2001, first in Toulouse, France then in Paris at the University Paris Diderot and at the Ecole Normale Superieure, and at the Ecole Polytechnique since 2016. His research interests concern various aspects of applied probability and stochastic modeling, including wave propagation in random media, imaging for waves in complex media, and uncertainty quantification. Among Garnier's awards are the Felix Klein Prize and Blaise Pascal Prize. Garnier is a Member of the Institut Universitaire de France and the French Academy of Sciences.

John Mutter is a professor in Columbia's Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences and the School of International and Public Affairs. With economist Eric Strobl of École polytechnique, he led the Alliance project "Sustainable Economic Development and Natural Disaster Shocks," combining natural-science and economic data, including satellite-derived nightlights as a proxy for development, to study the short- and long-run economic effects of earthquakes, and co-taught a graduate course on disasters and development in Paris and New York.

John Morrison is a philosopher at Columbia University. With Laurent Jaffro of the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, he developed an Alliance project on moral realism and human agency, asking whether values are properties of the world or projections of our desires and sentiments, and how the answer bears on goal-directed agency and its responsiveness to value.

John Huber is a professor of political science at Columbia University specializing in comparative politics, including the differences between democracies and autocracies, democratic institutions and political representation. His Alliance visiting professorship took place in 2012-13.

John Beeson is a PhD candidate in art history at Columbia University and a Turza Family Fellow (2021-2022). His research focuses on late-twentieth-century art, global conceptualism, and cultural politics. Beeson's writing has frequently appeared in Artforum, frieze, Texte zur Kunst, and May, as well as in exhibition catalogues and anthologies. He served as Editor of Out of Body, Out of Time, and Out of Place, a series of publications from Skulptur Projekte Münster 2017, and has also done curatorial and editorial work for Manifesta, Spike, and Texte zur Kunst.

Johanna Siméant is a political scientist at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne specializing in mobilization and protest, with a focus on Mali. As an Alliance visiting professor at Columbia in 2012-13, she taught a course on "Contentious Malians: violence, dissent and mobilization in contemporary Mali" and took part in a panel on Mali with Columbia's Institute of African Studies.

Jhon Jairo Ocampo Cantillo holds a law degree and two master’s degrees, one in Latin American Studies and the other in Development Studies. He is currently pursuing a Joint PhD in Sociology and Environmental Sciences at the University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and the University of São Paulo. His research focuses on the relationship between the global coordination of SDG 4 and the local implementation of Target 4.7 in the cities of São Paulo and Bogotá. 

Since February 2019, he has been serving as a policy officer at the Permanent Delegation of Chile to UNESCO. Previously, he held various positions related to UNESCO, including roles at the Buenos Aires Regional Office of the International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP/UNESCO), the Permanent Delegation of Peru to UNESCO, and the Section of Education for Sustainable Development. 

Additionally, he serves as an associate editor for the Ambiente & Sociedade journal and volunteers with the Actions for Latin America and Africa Association (ALMAA).

Jessica Cochran serves as Assistant Director, Finance and Operations, of the Alliance Program. 

Prior to this role, Jessica was Administrative Manager in the Office of the Senior Vice Provost at Columbia University. Other previous roles include her service as Assistant to the Music Director of the Houston Symphony and Deputy Cultural Attaché to the Consulate General of France in Houston, where she oversaw the Education and French Language Department and chaired the production of the French Cultures Festival. 

She has a Master's Degree in Social and Political Sciences, and Economics from Sciences Po Aix-en-Provence. As a student, she spent a year abroad in Bremen, Germany, interning at the Institut Français (French Cultural Institute). The first US city she lived in was New Orleans, where she interned at the French Consulate, working in University Cooperation. She's currently working on obtaining her Master's in Public Administration at Columbia. 

Jérôme Sgard is a professor at Sciences Po whose research and teaching span economic history and political economy, centered on the history of the governance of international and national markets, from the jurisdiction of the medieval Champagne fairs to early modern European bankruptcy laws. His main current project is a history of international commercial arbitration from the 1880s to the 1980s. He spent a semester at Columbia as an Alliance visiting professor in 2015-16.

Jeremy Perelman is a tenured Associate Professor and Director of Clinical Programs at Sciences Po Law School, and a former Lecturer in Law at Columbia (2009-11). He has received Alliance Joint Faculty Project grants in 2011 and 2016, including work with Columbia's Human Rights Institute on critical human rights advocacy. His Alliance visiting professorship at Columbia Law School (2020-21) supported research on how human rights discourse is deployed in environmental and climate change law and justice frameworks.

Jeffrey R. Lax is a professor of political science at Columbia University whose primary field is judicial politics and law. As an Alliance short-term visiting professor at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, he proposed a course evaluating law and courts as political institutions and judges as political actors, using the U.S. federal courts as a case study in comparison with other legal systems, and covering judicial review, judicial power and Supreme Court decision-making.

Jeanne-Louise Roellinger is pursuing a PhD in political science at CERI under the supervision of Ariel Colonomos. She is a recipient of a Higher Education Pact doctoral grant by the Directorate General for International Relations and Strategy (DGRIS) of the French Ministry of the Armed Forces. Her dissertation focuses on how states approach uncertainty in cyberspace and the role of national technical communities in producing knowledge about cybersecurity. She holds a research master's in Political Science with a major in International Relations and a bachelor's degree with a major in politics and government from Sciences Po. Her previous work has examined cyber norms negotiations, cyber diplomacy, and expert negotiations at the United Nations. In the fall of 2024, she was a visiting fellow at The Hague Program on International Cyber Security.

After two years of intensive studies in biology, chemistry, and mathematics, I entered École Polytechnique to focus on computer science, applied mathematics, and biology. My goal is to develop quantitative methods that can meaningfully improve healthcare.

A formative experience was my military internship with the Paris Fire Brigade, where I observed frontline medical decision-making under real constraints. It strengthened my desire to work on problems with direct clinical relevance.

Since then, I have pursued projects at the intersection of artificial intelligence and medicine, including modeling biophysical random walks, clustering patient trajectories to better understand disease progression, and estimating treatment effects in precision medicine. Across these experiences, I have focused on building interpretable methods capable of translating complex biomedical data into actionable insights.

I am now particularly drawn to statistical genomics and cancer research, and I look forward to my upcoming internship with Pr. Tavaré and Dr. Dinh on tumor genome sequencing! I am very grateful for the opportunity to benefit from the stimulating academic environment at Columbia University through the Columbia Alliance Program.

I aim to contribute to research that connects advanced computation with real-world medical impact."

Jean-Pierre Filiu is a professor of Middle East studies at Sciences Po and a historian of contemporary Islam and the Arab world. His books include Les Neuf vies d'Al-Qaida (Fayard, 2009), and he has written on jihadist networks, French policy in the Middle East and Palestinian history in journals including the Middle East Journal and the Journal of Palestine Studies. He was an Alliance visiting professor at Columbia in 2010-11.

Jean-Philippe Garric is a professor of the history of architecture at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. As an Alliance visiting professor at Columbia (spring 2019), hosted by Professor Barry Bergdoll, he proposed two graduate courses: "Paris and Europe 1770-1830: Revolutions in architectural theory and practice," and a course on the history of the architectural book and architectural theory in Italy and France from the 15th to the 20th century.

Jean-Baptiste Scherrer is a PhD candidate at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne under the supervision of Professor Pierre Sirinelli. Trained first in the humanities and social sciences before turning to law, he studies the interaction between the legal framework and creative works during their elaboration. His dissertation is titled "Moral rights and freedom of creation: a comparative study in French, German and Japanese law."

Jean Makhlouta is currently a PhD Candidate in Geography at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne under the supervision of Nadine Cattan and Stéphanie Dadour. His dissertation focuses on queer practices and mobilities in Beirut and their potential to rethink the urban structure of the city. His research  interests lie at the intersection of Urban studies, Middle Eastern studies, and Gender studies.

Jean is affiliated to research units Géographie-cités (CNRS, Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Université Paris Cité, EHESS) and Architecture, Culture, Société (CNRS, École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture Paris-Malaquais). He also serves as a teaching assistant at the Department of Geography at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.

Prior to starting his PhD, Jean completed an MA in Architecture at the École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture Paris-Malaquais where he graduated with distinction.

Jean Joël Tekou Tene is a PhD student in law at the Sorbonne Law School. He holds a D.E.A. in Business Law and a professional Master's in International Transport from the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. A specialist in foreign exchange regulation and customs law in the extractive industries (oil, gas and mining), he previously headed the Customs and Foreign Exchange Regulation Unit for the oil, gas and mining sector at Mazars (Central Africa). He is a member of the African Centre for Research on Energy and Mining Policies (CARPEM), leads tutorials at Paris 1, and publishes regularly in specialized journals.

Janina S. Santer is a Ph.D. student and Richard Hofstadter Fellow in the History Department at Columbia University, researching the history of the Lebanese state in the 1940s-1950s. Before moving to New York, she completed a MA in Middle Eastern Studies at the American University of Beirut (AUB), and her work has been published in Arabic translation in Bidayat °28-29/2020 (Nashʿat al-qiṭāʿ al-siyāḥī wa namūdhaj “lubnān swīsrā al-sharq”). Her interests include the social and cultural history of modern Lebanon, and she is currently developing a public history project about Radio al-Sharq (1930s 1960s) in collaboration with UMAM Center for Documentation and Research.

Janeth Valverde Quispe is a PhD student at the Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet (LLR) at École polytechnique. She analyzes gamma-ray data from blazars, active galactic nuclei whose jets point towards Earth, to better understand the particle acceleration mechanisms at work in these extreme systems. Her work combines data from the space-based Fermi Large Area Telescope and the ground-based VERITAS telescope array, which is operated with Columbia's participation.

Jane C. Ginsburg is a professor at Columbia Law School specializing in intellectual property. With Célia Zolynski of the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, she led the Alliance joint project "Comparative Aspects of Online Platforms Regulation (US/EU)," which examines the European approach to regulating online platforms (including the DSA and DMA) from a U.S. perspective, potential conflicts between European and U.S. standards, and possible convergence on a legal framework for the attention economy, through symposia at Paris 1 and Columbia in 2024.

James Buckley is a PhD candidate in the History Department at Columbia University. His research centers upon the mutual development of humanist scholarship and political ideas in early modern Europe, particularly the ways in which both were informed by new conceptions of knowledge. James holds a BA in History and English from the University of Illinois Chicago and an MA and MPhil in History from Columbia University.

Jack Willis is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Columbia University, specializing in development economics. He moved to economics from mathematics through a Master's at the Paris School of Economics (2007-09) and was a visiting researcher at PSE in 2017. His Alliance visiting professorship at Sciences Po (2023-24) aimed to build ties with faculty and graduate students there and to develop a research presence in francophone West Africa.

Isabella Bossolino is a PhD candidate at the Università degli Studi di Pavia and the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. Her dissertation focuses on the Archaic cemeteries of Kamiros, Rhodes, and their importance for understanding societal developments on the island during the Iron Age and Archaic period. She holds a post-graduate diploma from the Italian Archaeological School at Athens and a BA and MA from Pavia. Her research interests include Etruscan and Greek art and archaeology, the Iron Age Mediterranean, iconography, and the history of Italian excavations in the 20th century. At Columbia she worked with Professor Victoria de Grazia on Italian Fascist policies in the Dodecanese and their relationship with archaeology.

Isabela Mares is a professor of political science at Columbia University who teaches comparative politics, social policy and political economy. As an Alliance visiting professor at Sciences Po (2014-15), she taught the course "Social Policies around the World," building on collaborations with Patrick Le Galès, with whom she co-organized the conference "States in Crisis."

Ioannis Mylonopoulos is a professor of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University specializing in ancient Greek and Roman art, religion and ritual. Before Columbia, he taught at the University of Heidelberg and served on the executive committee of its Collaborative Research Centre "Ritual Dynamics." His dissertation won the Margarete Häcker Award for the best dissertation in Classics in German, and he received Columbia's Faculty Mentorship Award in 2011. He was an Alliance one-month visiting professor at Paris 1 in 2012.

Professor Ioannis Kymissis joined the Columbia University Electrical Engineering faculty in 2006. He teaches courses in solid state devices and display technology. He obtained his SB, MEng and PhD degrees from MIT, and also participated in a cooperative program through which he completed his M.Eng. thesis at IBM Research. He also held a postdoctoral appointment at MIT and worked as a consulting engineer at QDVision before joining Columbia.

Prof. Kymissis's research focuses on the fabrication, characterization, and applications of thin film electronics, with a particular focus in the applications of organic semiconductors, thin film piezoelectric, and recrystallized silicon devices. In addition to his teaching and research work, he is also active in the Society for Information Display and IEEE EDS.

Inaya Khan is a PhD candidate in History at Sciences Po. She is a Cofund Inspire Fellow (under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement), and her doctoral project is a policy study of decolonization and the changing status of white settlers in Kenya. She graduated with a BA Honours in History from Lady Shri Ram College (University of Delhi) in 2014 and an MPhil from the University of Cambridge in 2015.

Idriss Fofana is a Ph.D. candidate in international and global history at Columbia University and a recent graduate of Yale Law School. He specializes in the history of international law and other forms of inter-polity order in Asia and Africa since the eighteenth century. He is especially interested in historical and contemporary attempts to regulate migration. His work spans the fields of modern Chinese history, the modern history of Atlantic Africa as well as the history of twentieth-century anti-colonial and Third World movements.

His dissertation is titled “The ‘Chinese Solution’ to the Labor Question in Africa: Chinese Workers, African Railroads & the International Regulation of Labor Migration, 1860-1935.” It investigates how European colonial administrations’ long-held ambition to use Chinese labor to exploit resources in tropical Africa gave way to a series of novel experiments in the regulation of labor and migration in southern China, Senegambia, and the Congo basin during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Hugo Logez is a PhD student in African History at Columbia University. His research examines the formation of modern elites and the evolution of reverse diaspora in West Africa, focusing on the study of coastal families in colonial Dahomey (present-day Benin). Before joining Columbia, Hugo graduated from the École Normale Supérieure de Paris, where he completed a master's degree in transnational history. He has conducted archival research in Benin and Nigeria, and his teaching experience includes courses in the French Department at Rutgers University.

I am Hubert Leroux, an officer cadet at Ecole polytechnique. I am currently in my third year of study there, specializing in applied mathematics in which I have a strong interest for its beauty, its power, especially when enhanced with computational tools and its interdisciplinary nature.

This interdisciplinarity is in fact what I particularly enjoy at my school, as it allows me to explore a wide range of subjects, always with a strong mathematical perspective.

This is why I am excited to work on mathematical modeling of biological systems during my time at Columbia.

During my free time, I enjoy playing classical flute, reading and hiking.

I am excited to apply my mathematical skills to understand complex biological systems and contribute to meaningful research at Columbia. This internship will allow me to bridge my passion for mathematics with real-world applications in biology.

Holger A. Klein is Professor of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University, where he has served as department chair and Director of Graduate Studies and chaired the Faculty Steering Committee for the Columbia Global Center in Istanbul. A specialist in medieval and Byzantine art, he was previously the Robert P. Bergman Curator of Medieval Art at the Cleveland Museum of Art. He holds a Dr. phil. from the University of Bonn and an M.A. from the Courtauld Institute of Art. His Alliance visiting professorship was at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (2015-16).

Henri Bergeron is a CNRS research professor at Sciences Po (Centre de sociologie des organisations) working on health policy. With Constance A. Nathanson of Columbia, he led the Alliance project "Crisis in Context: Sagas of HIV Blood Contamination in the US and France," which asks why HIV contamination of the blood supply became a major political crisis in France but not in the United States, focusing on the cultural and institutional dimensions of the two blood systems.

Hélène Quiniou is a researcher, editor and translator, and a PhD candidate in Anthropology at Columbia University. She served on the editorial board of the Revue des Livres and is a member of the scientific committee of the Généalogies du mondial research program at the University of Paris 8. Her translations include texts by Stuart Hall, Judith Butler, Robert J. C. Young, Emily Apter and Unica Zürn. She has published on the genealogy of Anglophone postcolonial theory and on the legacy of the Hegelian concept of alienation in contemporary Marxist and postcolonial thought. Her current research investigates the remaking of secular paradigms in Francophone contexts of decolonization.

Hélène Périvier is an economist at OFCE-Sciences Po, where she directs PRESAGE, the Sciences Po gender studies program, and coordinates the EU-funded EGERA project (Effective Gender Equality in Research and the Academia). Her Alliance visiting professorship at Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs (fall 2017) aimed to build long-term links between PRESAGE and SIPA's Gender and Public Policy specialization, share experience on gender equality policies in academia, and develop research collaborations on gender and public policy.

Heath Rojas is a PhD candidate in early modern European history at Columbia University. His research focuses on the political and intellectual transformations of eighteenth-century France, especially the development of deism during the Enlightenment and the French Revolution. He holds a B.A. in history and a B.A. in French from Stanford University, where he graduated with Honors and Distinction. Under the guidance of Professors Dan Edelstein and Keith Baker, Heath wrote an Honors Thesis entitled “The Power of the Executive: Redefining Monarchical Authority in the First Three Years of the French Revolution,” which was awarded the Robert M. Golden Medal for excellence in the humanities and the creative arts. In 2018, he was awarded the Raymond J. Cunningham Prize by the American Historical Association for the best article published in a journal written by an undergraduate student. In 2020, he was the recipient of the Jerrold Siegel Fellowship from The Consortium for Intellectual and Cultural History.

Hamza CHERFAOUI is a PhD candidate at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, where he conducts doctoral research on “The Impact of Insolvency on Arbitration” under the supervision of Professor François-Xavier Lucas. He also serves as a teaching assistant at the Sorbonne Law School, teaching Private International Law and Insolvency Law.

He holds a Master’s degree (Master 2) in Business Law from the Sorbonne Law School, graduating top of his class with honors, completed within the Sorbonne Master’s Program in Fez (Morocco). He also earned prior Master’s degrees in Business Law from Casablanca Ain Chock University. His academic training is further enriched by advanced coursework in arbitration, corporate restructuring, international corporate law, and business law.

Hamza has gained solid professional experience in both private practice and in-house legal departments. He notably completed an internship at ad-avocats in Paris and worked as a company lawyer in Casablanca, where he was involved in legal research, contract drafting, dispute management, and due diligence.

He has also taken part in several prestigious arbitration and restructuring events and competitions, including the Serge Lazareff Arbitration Competition and the Sports Arbitration Moot. In addition, he has received specialized training in competition law.

A former student of the École normale supérieure (2008), Gwendal Rannou is completing his PhD thesis on "Australasian Imperialism in the Pacific (1914-1942)" at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne under the supervision of Pierre Singaravélou.

Gustav Kalm is a PhD candidate in Anthropology at Columbia University. Originally from Estonia, he trained as a lawyer in France before beginning doctoral study in Anthropology. His research investigates the anatomy of political rule in the transnational extension of property and contract protection under the international investment protection regime.

Grégoire Noël is trained in theoretical physics (MSc, King's College London, and MSc, École Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay) and in statistics and financial engineering (MSc, Mines ParisTech). He is a PhD candidate in macroeconomics at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne under the supervision of Gaël Giraud. His research aims to embed macroeconomic modeling within a thermodynamic framework in order to assess the consequences of thermodynamic constraints on economic dynamics; his provisional dissertation title is "Modeling the economy as a dissipative structure to address the ecological shift." At Columbia he studied the causal relations between inflation, inequality and resource scarcity.

Giulio Piumelli is a Ph.D. candidate in Global History and Governance at the Scuola Superiore Meridionale (Naples, Italy) and the Center for History at Sciences Po (Paris, France) under the supervision of Professor Mario Del Pero. His doctoral research investigates the origins and implementation of the Washington Consensus (1979-1995). The term refers to a set of macroeconomic policies promoted by the U.S. Treasury Department, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and the World Bank (all based in Washington, D.C.) in the 1980s and 1990s to stabilize countries facing balance-of-payments crises. His research argues that the Washington Consensus serves as a lens to examine the systemic transformations of the 1980s and early 1990s, including the end of the Cold War, the so-called neoliberal turn, the U.S. role in shaping the global economic and political order, and the power dynamics between creditor and debtor nations. This research builds on his undergraduate thesis, which analyzed the role of the Washington Consensus in shaping the U.S. unipolar moment in the 1990s. At Sciences Po, Giulio also works as a teaching assistant for a graduate course on the history of globalization and teaches methodology classes for an undergraduate course on 20th - and 21st -century history. Before joining the Research School, Giulio earned a master’s degree in European and International Studies from the University of Trento, writing his thesis on Jimmy Carter’s human rights policy toward Poland based on recently declassified material from the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library.

Georgia O’Neil is the Communications and Administrative Coordinator for the Alliance Program, a transatlantic academic partnership between Columbia University, École Polytechnique, Sciences Po, and Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. In this role, she oversees the Alliance’s communications strategy—including digital outreach, the Vis-à-Vis podcast, newsletters, and event publicity—while supporting the program’s daily operations, finance administration, and academic exchanges between France and the U.S.

With a background in fine art, education, and program management, Georgia brings a unique creative and organizational perspective to higher education. Prior to joining Columbia, she served as Artist-in-Residence at Cornell University. She holds a B.A. from the University of Connecticut, and her professional practice explores the intersections of art, scholarship, and international collaboration.

George A. Bermann is a professor at Columbia Law School specializing in international arbitration and European Union law. With colleagues at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, he led an Alliance project on the impact of extraterritorial legislation on international business transactions, especially in U.S.-EU relations, bringing together academics, business leaders and public officials in seminars in New York and Paris, with a view to publishing findings and proposals to reduce the associated risks.

Geneviève Fraisse is a preeminent French feminist philosopher and Research Director at the CNRS (National Centre for Scientific Research) in Paris. She is the author of numerous publications, notably La Fabrique du féminisme (2012), À côté du genre: sexe et philosophie de l'égalité (2010) and Du Consentement (2007).

Gaspard Tissandier is a PhD student at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. After a Bachelor's degree at the Toulouse School of Economics and a Master's in Applied Economics and Public Policy, he began a PhD on the interaction between machine learning and public policy. His dissertation covers machine learning applied to microeconometrics, the economic evaluation of public predictive algorithms, and the regulation of predictive systems, with applications to higher education policy, police reform and crime. He also co-edits a student social science review and founded a PhD seminar at his home institution.

Fredrick C. Harris is a professor of political science at Columbia University. As an Alliance short-term visiting professor at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, he taught the mini-course "The Politics of Minority Protest in the United States," covering racial and ethnic identity and political attitudes, minority representation, the party system, minority activism and the role of immigration status, with a foundation in Black politics and extensions to Latino and Asian-American politics.

Frank R. Lichtenberg is a professor at Columbia Business School whose research examines the impact of technological innovation, especially pharmaceutical innovation, on longevity and economic growth. Work associated with his Alliance visiting professorship (2011) investigated the contribution of newer prescription drugs and chemotherapy treatments to recent increases in life expectancy and declines in mortality in Germany and France.

Frank A. Guridy is a historian at Columbia University. As an Alliance visiting professor in France in spring 2026, he proposed the course "Sport and Society in France and Beyond," which explores the history of sport and society in France, the country's role in staging mega sporting events such as the Olympics and the World Cup, and the impact of the sport industry in the wake of the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Francisca Aguayo Armijo is a PhD Fellow in Public International Law at the Sorbonne Law School, University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, where she earned her bachelor's and master's degrees with honors. She has interned at the Corporation for Latin American Studies in Santiago, UNESCO headquarters in Paris and the Permanent Mission of Chile to the United Nations in New York. During her stay at Columbia she focused on United Nations and United States practice on the coordination of international organizations in post-conflict reconstruction.

France Orain is a PhD candidate in Islamic Art History at Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, supervised by Prof. Jean-Pierre Van Staëvel and Prof. Sandra Aube Lorain. She is affiliated with UMR 8167 Orient et Méditerranée and CeRMI, UMR 8041. France’s dissertation focuses on the wooden art that adorned and furnished Timurid monuments (r. 1370-1506) across Iran and Central Asia, from a technical, structural, and socio-cultural perspective. Her doctoral research sheds new light on the sociocultural history of the Timurids, by exploring the variety of techniques and ornamental repertoire in the wooden arts, and by reconstructing the networks of artisans and patrons involved in their production. France is a member of the Young Researchers Board (BJC) of the GIS MOMM (Groupement d’intérêt scientifique - Moyen Orient et Mondes Musulmans) and is a member of the research department at APAMI (Association for the Promotion of Islamic Art).

Florian Grosset is a PhD student in Sustainable Development at Columbia University. His research spans development and environmental economics. With Eliana Carranza and Aletheia Donald (World Bank) and Supreet Kaur (UC Berkeley), he studies the effects of social sharing norms on labor supply in Côte d'Ivoire; his additional research explores the spatial effects of weather shocks through trade and migration. He aims to advance understanding of the effects of climate change on societies in developing countries. He holds a master's in economics from the Paris School of Economics and bachelor's degrees from Sciences Po (Public Policy) and the University of Lorraine (Economics).

Florian Cafiero is currently a Ph.D. student at Sciences Po Medialab, under the supervision of Prof. Jean-Philippe Cointet. His thesis focuses on the debate between pro- and anti-vaccine activists and its reception by the public. An Ecole Normale Supérieure - Paris-Saclay alumnus, he holds an MPhil. in Digital Humanities from Ecole Nationale des Chartes - Paris Sciences et Lettres Université (PSL). He has taught quantitative methods applied to social sciences and the humanities at the Geneva University, Ecole Nationale des Chartes (PSL), and Université d’Orléans. His works in computational social science and quantitative linguistics have been published in journals such as Science Advances, Social Networks, or Social Science and Medicine.

Florence Haegel is a Full Professor of Political Science at Sciences Po and, since 2016, Head of the Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics (CEE). She is a member of the MaxPo Joint Council, sits on the board of the French Political Science Association (AFSP) and the editorial board of the Revue française de science politique, and represents France on the Executive Committee of the International Political Science Association.

Filippo Soramel holds an MPhil in History (British and European History 1700-1850) from Oxford University (Mansfield College) and a BA in Russian and History from UCL (SSEES), and is now a PhD candidate in History at the universities of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and Vienna (Austria). His doctoral research focuses on the patriotic strand of 18th- and early-19th-century Euro-Atlantic economic reformism, as observable through the activity of contemporary agricultural associations in the Austro-Venetian Alpine border regions. As a University Assistant (praedoc) at the Department of Economic and Social History at the University of Vienna, he also teaches undergraduate courses on early modern socio-economic history and thought. He has already held research positions internationally, including as Marietta Blau Fellow in Paris for Austria’s Agency for Education and Internationalisation, GO.INVESTIGATIO Fellow in Ljubljana (Slovenia) for the Austrian Academy of Sciences, and Research Assistant at Ca’ Foscari University in Venice (Italy).

Felipe Lauritzen is a Ph.D. candidate in Economics at Sciences Po Paris, since 2022. Alongside his doctoral studies, he holds affiliations as a researcher with the National Observatory of Women in Politics at the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies and serves as a research assistant for the CEPR Media Plurality Research and Policy Network (RPN). He is a recipient of a Young Researcher grant from the Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Evaluation of Public Policies (LIEPP).
His research focuses on electoral finance and representation policies, with a particular emphasis on empirical analysis within the context of Brazil. He is also engaged in investigations regarding media plurality, regulation, and their intricate connections with democracy in emerging economies. In these academic pursuits, he is supervised by Professor Julia Cagé.
Besides this, Felipe has a policy career in international development organisations, comprising +6 years at OECD, UNESCO, UNDP, and AFD. In 2019, he co-founded the non-profit association Pour le Brésil, which advocates for economic, social, and environmental justice in Brazil.

Fatima-Ezzahrae Touilila is a doctoral candidate and a Teaching Fellow in the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies and the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University. Prior
to this, she completed a dual degree in Law and Political Science at Sciences Po (Paris) and Columbia University and was a Research Fellow at the Institute of Religion, Culture and Public Life (New York). Her research interests include Critical Theory, the epistemological ruptures in the making of Modernity, tradition, and memory, Judeo-Islamic syncretism in Morocco.

Her current project investigates the intellectual history and political theory that buttressed French colonization in Northwest Africa. 

Farah is a Ph.D. candidate in Public International Law at Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne under the supervision of Professor Paolo Palchetti. Farah is a graduate of Economics and Political Science from McGill University, a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Law in London, and a holder of two master’s degrees: a master’s in Public International & International Organizations’ Law from Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne and a master’s in International Studies and Diplomacy from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS, University of London). She is also a New York State Attorney.

Farah’s research focuses on the duty of non-recognition and attempts to understand its relevance in contemporary international law as a collective and solidary enforcement mechanism by States, its ever-growing place in the effectivity versus legality dichotomy as well as its application in other areas of international law beyond territorial acquisitions, such as within treaty law, immunity law and humanitarian law, in addition to its application to other actors such as international corporations.

Between her undergraduate and graduate years, Farah worked as a management consultant for EY in Abu Dhabi, an Analyst for the United Nations Resident Coordinator Office in Bahrain and a Consultant for the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development in Paris working closely with various sovereign states.

Fabien Théofilakis is a historian at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne specializing in 19th- and 20th-century German history, the social and cultural history of conflicts and post-war periods in Europe, and the history of the Holocaust. As an Alliance visiting professor at Columbia in 2024, he taught a course on "trials for history," examining how the Second World War and Nazi crimes have been judged from the Nuremberg tribunal to national trials in the 21st century, and shared his research on the Eichmann trial.

Evan Grégoire is a dual Ph.D. candidate specializing in political theory at Columbia University and Sciences Po, working with Nadia Urbinati (Columbia) and Bernard Reber (Sciences Po). His dissertation seeks to answer the question, “under what conditions can deliberation work?" paying particular attention to the collegial and deliberative governance of professional service firms.

Evan Grégoire is a 2022-2023 Fulbright recipient. Prior to enrolling at Columbia, Mr. Grégoire received four master’s degrees with distinction from the École Normale Supérieure Ulm (in philosophy, with a concentration in contemporary philosophy), Paris Sciences et Lettres, Sciences Po (in political science, with a concentration in political theory) and HEC Paris (in management, with a concentration in sustainability and social innovation). He was a visiting student at Scuola Superiori Sant’Anna (Italy), Scuola di Studi Superiori "Ferdinando Rossi"(Italy), and Trinity College Dublin (Ireland). As part of his Ph.D., Mr. Grégoire taught courses in political science and management both at Sciences Po and Columbia University
and participated in the grading of graduate-level exams (notably, at the School of Management and Impact, the Paris School of International Affairs and Columbia School of Professional Studies).

Mr. Grégoire is a French citizen with fluency and international work experience in English and French. He also worked for leading companies including Mazars (the largest French consultancy) and Carrefour (the largest European food retailer), as well as top universities including the University of Bristol and ESCP Business School and international organisations (UNESCO). He speaks fluent French and Spanish which helped him conduct foresight analysis, write policy briefs and recommendations, as well as lead stakeholder engagement tasks.

Eugene Wu is a computer scientist at Columbia University working at the intersection of data management, systems and artificial intelligence. His Alliance short-term visiting professorship at École polytechnique (August 2025) aimed to establish a research collaboration with its Computer Science Department and included a lecture on AI agent-based automation, a research area with the potential to transform production and reshape the business and societal landscape.

Étienne Ollion is a professor of Sociology at the École Polytechnique and a researcher at CNRS. Specializing in politics, his works investigate the texture of power in modern societies. He uses qualitative and quantitative methods alike and is an enthusiastic promoter of computational social sciences.

Étienne Jollet is Professor of Early Modern Art History at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. He is particularly interested in the relationships between art and knowledge (for example, gravity in painting), art and power (royal portraits and royal monuments), and the historiography of the discipline.

Etienne Dignat is a doctoral researcher at Sciences Po. He holds a Master's degree in Literature from the École Normale Supérieure (Lettres et Sciences Humaines) and a Master's in Public Affairs from Sciences Po, and attended the Institute of Advanced Studies in National Defence (IHEDN). His interests span political science, literature, philosophy and history.

Erica Ceola is from Italy. She began her studies in 2013 at Trento’s University, in Italy, where she obtained a Bachelor’s degree in International Relations in 2016. Then she majored in History with a Master’s degree at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, in Italy, with the final grade of 110/110 with honors (4.0 G.P.A.). After studying for one year at the University of Paris Sorbonne as an Erasmus student, Erica decided to pursue an academic path at the Panthéon Sorbonne Graduate School of History, in Paris. She started her Ph. D. during the academic year 2019-2020 with a doctoral thesis on Italian Migration history concerning mass emigration from the north of Italy to Arkansas, between the 1880s and the 1950s. Despite the sanitary situation, during the first year of her Ph.D., Erica conducted primary source research in Italy, especially through the scholarship that the École Française de Rome attributed to her in September 2020. Since May 2020, Erica has had the honor of being accepted as a fellow at the Institut Convergences Migrations, a partner institution of College de France and Sorbonne Universities, which are associated through common researches topics, such as international migrations. 

Eric Teschke is a PhD student in Development Economics at the Paris School of Economics. His thesis, "Targeting and Tailoring: How to make development work for the poorest of the poor," seeks to better understand how to reach the poorest and how to tailor interventions for greater impact, using recent econometric techniques, particularly machine learning, and new experimental methods. As an applied development economist, he aims to contribute directly to knowledge of the impact of public policies in the Global South. He holds a master's in economics from the Paris School of Economics, after undergraduate studies in Germany and China.

Eric Strobl is an economist at École polytechnique. With John Mutter of Columbia, he led the Alliance project "Sustainable Economic Development and Natural Disaster Shocks," which studies the short- and long-run economic consequences of earthquakes using natural-science data and satellite-derived nightlights, and co-taught a graduate course on disasters and development in Paris and New York.

Eric Godelier is a professor at École polytechnique working on the conception and diffusion of managerial models and tools. A strong advocate of comparative and interdisciplinary approaches that bring anthropology, sociology and history into management science, he studies the links between French managerial and technical elites and national education systems, and their impact on state-business relations. As an Alliance visiting professor at Columbia (fall 2015), he taught American students the history of French management and capitalism in comparative perspective.

Emmanuel Kattan is Director of the Alliance Program. He was previously Director of the British Council in New York, where he oversaw academic collaboration programs. He created partnerships with the Henry Luce Foundation and the Carnegie Corporation to launch initiatives connecting higher education institutions across the Atlantic. Before joining the British Council, Emmanuel was Senior Adviser at the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations, where he managed strategic communications and engagement with academic communities. He also held senior positions at the Commonwealth Secretariat and at the Quebec Delegation in London, where he was in charge of academic relations programs. A native of Montreal, Emmanuel studied politics at Oxford as a Rhodes scholar and earned a PhD from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. He is the author of four books: an essay on the politics of memory and three novels.

Emma De Andreis is a PhD candidate in Political Science at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, under the co-supervision of Delphine Dulong and Sophie Pochic. After completing a Bachelor's degree in History and Political Science, she decided to specialize in Political Science and Sociology, focusing on women’s mobilizations for gender equality within the public and private sectors, through a Master's in Social Sciences at Ecole des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales and l’École Normale Supérieure (Paris). She is now working on gender quota policies in the French public administration, at the intersection of the sociology of administration, policy instruments, gender studies, and organizations.
 

Specializing in the intersection of law and environmental issues, Emma Bursztejn is a
doctoral candidate in law at the University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne under the
supervision of Professor Sophie Robin Olivier. She is also the director of the Law and
Economics Seminar at the College de France. Her research focuses on the impact of climate
change on European competition law. In the spring of 2023, Emma expanded her
interdisciplinary expertise as a visiting scholar at Princeton University's Center for Policy
Research on Energy and the Environment. Highly motivated and bilingual in English and
French, Emma thrives in dynamic, research-intensive environments.

Emma Bonutti D’Agostini is a PhD Candidate in Sociology at l’Institut Polytechnique de Paris and at Sciences Po Paris. She works under the joint supervision of Etienne Ollion (CREST, Institut Polytechnique de Paris) and Sylvain Parasie (médialab, Sciences Po Paris). Before, she completed a Research Master in Sociology at Sciences Po Paris, and a Bachelor Degree in Political Sciences at Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies (Pisa, Italy). 

In her doctoral dissertation, she studies how French and Italian legacy media grant visibility and legitimacy to political groups by giving them a voice, borrowing tools from computational social science (CSS) and natural language processing (NLP), which she combines with qualitative sociological methodologies.

Emanuele Ferragina is a sociologist at Sciences Po whose work focuses on comparative social policy, family policy and research methods. As an Alliance visiting professor at the Columbia School of Social Work (January-June 2019), he taught a course on Comparative Social Policy, building on the school's strengths in this area.

Elya Assayag is a history PhD student at Columbia University. Elya studies the seams between legal systems and society during the colonial period in Morocco (1912-1956), in addition to studying physical seams in the history of Moroccan embroidery. Through diverse methodologies, she tries to follow the day-to-day lives of women in colonial Morocco, that are absent from textual archives. Besides trying to figure out her academic path, she volunteers with refugees and asylum seekers, and tries to do something useful with the law degree she obtained a few years ago.

Elise Huillery is an economist at Sciences Po (Assistant Professor at the time of her visit). As an Alliance visiting professor hosted by Columbia's Department of Economics in spring 2013, she taught a course in development economics to 80 undergraduate and graduate students, took part in the department's development economics seminars and presented her research at two Columbia seminars.

Elie Tassel-Maurizi is a PhD candidate in international and comparative law and a junior lecturer at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. His dissertation addresses forgiveness, a theme at the crossroads of transitional justice, international law, constitutional law and philosophy, asking whether a balance can be found between strict criminal justice and total oblivion. He has conducted research at Oxford, Columbia Law School, the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg, and the University of Buenos Aires.

Elias Brugidou is a PhD candidate in Political Science at Sciences Po’s Center of International Studies (CERI), where he works under the supervision of Professor Frédéric Ramel. His current research focuses on the construction of the ‘information threat’ as an issue of expertise and security in the United States and France. In doing so, he pays particular attention to actors and forms of knowledge that cross the boundaries of the field of security professionals.

Elias holds a Master's degree in Political Science from Sciences Po. His previous work examined the conversion of imagination and countercultural aesthetics into legitimate security knowledge in the United States and Western Europe.

Eleonora Bottini is a public law scholar. Her Alliance visiting professorship at Columbia (2017-18) centered on the research project "Constitutional interpretation and legal comparison: controversies and strategies," which examines comparative law as a method of constitutional interpretation used by scholars and judges, and how comparative constitutional law has become a sub-field with its own paradigms and debates.

Ekaterina Oger Grivnova is currently a lawyer with Allen & Overy Paris office. She has experience advising on commercial and investment arbitration cases from a broad spectrum of sectors conducted under various arbitration rules.

Ekaterina holds a Master’s degree in Arbitration and International Business Law from the University of Versailles and pursues her PhD degree at Sorbonne Law School. Her thesis is focused on Inadmissibility of Claims in International Arbitration.

She also teaches International Arbitration at Paris Bar School, intervenes as a guest lecturer in other institutions and coaches student teams for various moot courts.

Ekaterina is an Editorial Board Member of Arbitration.ru, arbitration journal in English and Russian by Russian Arbitration Association, Co-chair of Paris Very Young Arbitration Practitioners (PVYAP) and administrator of MetaverseLegal, decentralised community dedicated to legal implications of the Metaverse and Web3.

Églantine Pasquier is a doctoral candidate in the History of Architecture at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and the École du Louvre. Her dissertation, "The Philanthropist and the Architect: the Collaboration Between John D. Rockefeller, Jr. and William Welles Bosworth in France (1906-1936)," is supervised by Jean-Philippe Garric and Alice Thomine-Berrada. She holds a Master's in Art History and Museology from the École du Louvre and bachelor's degrees in Art History (Paris 1) and History (Université Catholique de l'Ouest), and studied at the Bard Graduate Center in New York.

Eduardo Perez is an economist at École polytechnique (Assistant Professor at the time of his visit). As an Alliance visiting professor, he spent the spring 2013 semester in Columbia's Department of Economics, discussing his research with faculty, developing new research directions and taking part in the department's academic life.

Edouard Dossetto is an engineer of the Corps des Ponts, des Eaux et Forêts and a civil servant specializing in energy, economy and climate issues. He studied at École polytechnique (Master in Renewable Energies Science & Technologies) and at the École Normale Supérieure, earning the agrégation in Mechanical Engineering, and holds an MSc in Public Policy and Development. He has worked at the French Development Agency, where he helped implement the Eco-Building Financing Initiative, and at EDF New Energies. His PhD in economics, supervised by Gaël Giraud and Christophe Chorro, addresses "Climate-induced Financial Risk Management by Public Policy."

Édouard Challe is an economist at École polytechnique working in macroeconomics and finance. For his Alliance visiting professorship at Columbia, he proposed a graduate course on financial crises covering liquidity crises in financial institutions and markets, and asset bubbles and crashes.

Edoardo Ciscato is a PhD candidate in economics at Sciences Po. His fields of research are family economics, the marriage market, labor supply, and search and matching models. His thesis, "Matching Models and Search Theory: Applications to the Economics of the Family," is supervised by Professors Jean-Marc Robin and Alfred Galichon. At Columbia, he worked on developing dynamic equilibrium models to address questions of household behavior and marriage patterns.

A former student of the École Normale Supérieure and holder of an agrégation in philosophy, Edgard Darrobers is completing his PhD in philosophy at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University and the University of Geneva on the subject of “What is Being Moved?” His work lies at the intersection of philosophy of emotion, moral philosophy, and aesthetics.

Dominique Rossin (X1994) has been appointed Provost of École Polytechnique. Since 2015, Dominique Rossin was Vice-Provost for Education at the School. Since 2019, he has been in charge of the Teaching Committee for the Institut Polytechnique de Paris. Since 2020, he has been the French Dean of the European University EuroteQ.

Dominique Rossin holds a PhD in Computer Science from the École Polytechnique and is a specialist in algorithmics and combinatorics. He led a team at the University of Paris Diderot for seven years before joining the École Polytechnique's Computer Science Laboratory (LIX) in 2010.

He was recruited as a lecturer at l’X in 2003, in the computer science department and has been accredited to supervise research since 2007. Between 2012 and 2014, he joined the Ministry of Higher Education and Research as Deputy Delegate for Research and Technology in charge of the Paris region.

Dominique Rossin has led several major projects for the School: the creation of the Bachelor's program, the creation of the eight Masters of Science and Technology, the development of continuing education and the creation of the Executive Master's program, as well as leading the project to reform the Ingénieur Polytechnicien Program. Dominique Rossin has also played a key role in the evolution of teaching practices and the development of e-learning and MOOCs.

Dominique Poulot is a Professor of Art History at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. He has worked extensively with art manuals, literary criticism, travel guides and visitors' memoirs of the long eighteenth century, and is the author of numerous books, including Une histoire des musées de France (2005) and Une histoire du patrimoine en Occident (2006). He created an MA program in Museum Studies at Paris 1 and has held fellowships including a Jean Monnet Fellowship at the European University Institute, Junior and Senior Fellowships of the Institut Universitaire de France, and a Getty Scholar Fellowship.

Dina Waked holds an S.J.D. (Doctor of Judicial Science) and an LL.M. from Harvard Law School, an LL.B. from Cairo University Law School, and a BA in Economics from the American University in Cairo. Her doctoral thesis received the Harvard Law School 2012 John M. Olin Law & Economics Prize.

Before joining the Law School at Sciences Po in 2013, she was teaching at the college of Sciences Po in Paris and Menton, SKEMA Business School – ESC Lille and the American University in Cairo.

She teaches courses on Global Antitrust Law, Comparative Competition Law and Economic Development, Law and Economics, Regulation, International Business Law, and Law in the Middle East.

Her research and publications explore issues linked to competition, development, critical law and economics, and economic growth and distribution in the Global South. Specifically, her work focuses on the intersection between antitrust enforcement and economic development. Her work utilizes econometric tools to evaluate the effectiveness of competition policy and its relationship with growth theory in the Global South. She also works on the history of law and economics to outline the dialectic relationship between these disciplines through the 19th century onwards. 

She has advised a number of governments and international organizations on competition law compliance and the assessment of competition law reforms.

Fields of Expertise: 

• Law and Economics
• Global Competition Law and Antitrust 
• Regulation
• Development 

Dimitri Maillard is a doctoral candidate at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. His thesis, "Protocol and symbols of power in the Roman Republic (509-27 B.C.)," examines how the Roman political elite staged itself in public and private, through the physical appearance of magistrates, traditional symbols of power such as the toga and the curule chair, and protocol. At Columbia, advised by Professor William Harris, he focused on the contribution of iconographic and archaeological studies to understanding the staging of political power, and on cultural transfers between the Roman and Hellenistic worlds.

Dimitri Ghantous is a doctoral researcher in law whose project, "The Digital Double: A Comparative Study in E.U. and U.S. Law," examines how generative AI's ability to reproduce a person's likeness, voice and behavior ("digital doubles") challenges existing legal frameworks. His research analyzes the shortcomings of copyright law, personality rights and emerging AI-specific regulation on both sides of the Atlantic, and aims to propose a fairer system for regulating the use of digital doubles in Europe and the United States.

Devon Golaszewski is a doctoral student in African history at Columbia University and a candidate for the Graduate Certificate in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Her research focuses on the history of gender, sexuality and medicine in 20th-century francophone West Africa. Her dissertation, "Reproductive Labors: Mandé Reproductive Expertise and Biomedical Legibility in West Africa," examines how local forms of reproductive expertise were integrated into the post-colonial reproductive health systems of Mali and Senegal between the 1950s and 1990s. Before Columbia, she spent three and a half years in Bamako as Programs Director of the Mali Health Organizing Project, and held a Fulbright at the University of Maroua (Cameroon). She received her BA in History from Wesleyan University.

Denis-Didier Rousseau is a paleoclimatologist at the Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique (École polytechnique, ENS, UPMC, CNRS). His research uses loess and other wind-blown (eolian) deposits as archives of past atmospheric circulation, to understand the highly variable, alternately dusty and non-dusty climate of the last glacial cycle and to test the ability of climate models to reproduce strong wind events. His Alliance visiting professorship at Columbia took place in 2013-14.

Delphine Giney is a PhD student in Geography at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (LADYSS, UMR 7533). After a multidisciplinary path through psychology, law, mediation and biodiversity management, she turned to participatory processes in projects involving environmental issues. Her thesis examines social acceptance and the inclusion of stakeholders in the design, construction and operation of large-scale development projects; her Alliance project studied the social acceptance of the Roosevelt Island tramway in New York.

David Stark is the Arthur Lehman Professor of Sociology and International Affairs at Columbia University. For more than thirty years his research has been in dialogue with French interlocutors, from Pierre Bourdieu and Luc Boltanski to Bruno Latour, Michel Callon and the Conventions School. As an Alliance visiting professor at Sciences Po in spring 2016, he taught a PhD seminar in economic sociology.

David Scott is a professor of anthropology at Columbia University. As an Alliance visiting professor in Paris in 2012-13, he taught a nine-week seminar on Frantz Fanon to students from EHESS and Paris 1, reading Peau noire, masques blancs and Les damnés de la terre and examining how Fanon engaged with négritude, surrealism, existentialism, Marxism and psychoanalysis in thinking through racism and colonialism.

David Stark is the Arthur Lehman Professor of Sociology and International Affairs at Columbia University. For more than thirty years his research has been in dialogue with French interlocutors, from Pierre Bourdieu and Luc Boltanski to Bruno Latour, Michel Callon and the Conventions School. As an Alliance visiting professor at Sciences Po in spring 2016, he taught a PhD seminar in economic sociology.

Daniel Bienstock is a professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research at Columbia University. His Alliance visiting professorship at École polytechnique (CNRS LIX), in a reciprocal exchange with Leo Liberti, focused on Alternating Current Optimal Power Flow (ACOPF) and related problems of secure power grid operation, including semidefinite programming relaxations and quadratically constrained quadratic programming. He also taught on integer and mixed-integer programming, power grid operations and high-performance optimization.

Cristina Parapar is a PhD candidate in Aesthetics at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. She teaches History and Political Art in Spain and Latin America at Université Paris Cité, and Spanish and Hispanic Culture at the Catholic University of Paris. Educated in Salamanca and Paris, she holds a BA in Philosophy, Humanities and Journalism and a Master's in Aesthetics, and was a visiting student researcher at Duke University and Humboldt University of Berlin. Her research focuses on the history, aesthetics and philosophy of art, and her writing on music has been published in French, English and Spanish.

Craig Spencer, MD, MPH, is Director of Global Health in Emergency Medicine at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center and Assistant Professor of Medicine and Population and Family Health at Columbia. An emergency physician, he has worked extensively with Médecins Sans Frontières, including as an epidemiologist during the Ebola response in Guinea, a trauma and emergency physician in Burundi and Chad, and a doctor on Mediterranean search-and-rescue missions. He proposed an Alliance visiting professorship at Sciences Po (2018-19).

Costantino Romeo is a PhD candidate in Management and Social Sciences at the Centre de Recherche en Gestion–i3 (CRG–i3), École Polytechnique. His research examines inter- organizational dynamics associated with collaborative workspaces, with particular attention to the conditions under which international collaboration emerges and becomes institutionalized. He investigates how collective action is structured within meta-organizations and how these organizational settings evolve into shared decision- making and social orders, particularly through the production of soft norms in the creative and cultural industries.

Coline Saintherant is a Ph.D. candidate at the History department at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University in France. Her thesis is on the Russian women authors exiled in France after the Russian Revolution of 1917 and she works under the supervision of Professor Marie-Pierre Rey. She is also studying Russian language at Inalco (Paris). Her research aims to offer a fresh outlook on the intellectual history of Russian emigration by taking a nuanced perspective through the lens of gender history and women's experiences. Specifically, she embarks on a prosopography exploration of these women, seeking to document their place and role within the intellectual networks of Russian exile. Her project delves into the lives and contributions of these Russian female authors, shedding light on their literary activities, intellectual pursuits, and the challenges they faced, as women, within the diasporic context. By examining their roles in intellectual networks, she seeks to illuminate the broader historical context of Russian emigration, demonstrating how these women played integral roles in shaping the intellectual landscape of their time. Beyond her role as a researcher, she is also a teacher in secondary education. This dual perspective allows her to witness firsthand the transformative power of historical knowledge in shaping young minds. She believes in the importance of integrating her research findings into educational practices. She believes that a nuanced understanding of history is crucial for cultivating critical thinking skills and promoting a more inclusive and informed society.

Clotilde Bômont is a PhD candidate in Geography and Geopolitics. Her research, "Securing and optimizing the military ICS: defining the perimeter of the military cloud," examines the adoption of cloud computing in military information and communication systems in the context of network-centric warfare, and the security challenges it raises for data availability, confidentiality and integrity. She takes a comparative, geopolitical approach to how states incorporate cloud technologies into their defense systems.

Cloé Artaut is a Ph.D. candidate in political theory at Sciences Po, Paris. She holds a Masters in Modern Literature from the Université Sorbonne-Nouvelle and a Masters in Political Theory from Sciences Po. Her doctoral research explores how references to the Third Republic (1870-1940) have shaped discourses on France's national identity since the end of the Vichy Regime, employing an intellectual history approach. More broadly, her research interests include nationalism, republicanism, political imaginaries, and the colonial legacy 20th- and 21st-century France. In addition to her research, she teaches Political Humanities at Sciences Po and has served as a teaching assistant for various undergraduate and postgraduate courses. 

Clément Fabre is a PhD candidate in Contemporary History affiliated with the Centre d'Histoire de l'Asie contemporaine (CHAC) at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and with UMR Sirice. His research examines the role played by Chinese bodies in the construction of both Western power over China and Western knowledge about China (1839-1914), through a connected study of French, British and American diplomatic and missionary archives, travel accounts and scientific literature. He teaches the history of Asia, Europe and historiography at Paris 1, sits on the boards of the Société d'histoire de la révolution de 1848 et des révolutions du XIXe siècle and the Société française d'histoire des outre-mers, and is a member of the editorial team of L'Histoire.

Since childhood, I have been fascinated by the study of physical phenomena and the living world. This passion developed when I was competing in windsurfing competitions and felt the force of the elements every day through my arms as I held the sail.

I then turned to general scientific studies, initially because I wanted to gain a general understanding of the physical world around me. It was a vast project. Obviously too vast.

While studying biology and certain aspects of physics, I became fascinated by reflections on phenomena whose consequences are found at higher levels than those of the actions that originate from the collective phenomena that caused them. But this seemingly barbaric passion does not replace my attraction to meeting people, exchanging ideas, and above all, sporting challenges in different disciplines.

I believe that travel and major sporting events are the best ways to engage in sincere exchanges with people from different backgrounds. I am particularly interested in meeting people who have a different perspective on the subjects I believe in. I am therefore doubly delighted to be able to come and study at Columbia in the United States this semester, and I hope that this period will be as rich in scientific learning as it is in shared wonder and smiles.

This internship is a rare opportunity for me to explore, at the molecular level, how simple physical mechanisms can produce robust and universal performance.

I look forward to transforming these ideas into measurement tools that are truly useful in biomedicine.

Clélia Lacam is a second-year Ph.D. candidate in African History at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University. Her research, under the supervision of Anne Hugon, focuses on women and missions in colonial Gabon (1842-1961), through a connected study of Catholic nuns, Protestant missionary women and converted African women. By considering religious archives, “propaganda” literature and iconographic collections, she examines how the missionary experience reshaped gender relations and paved the way to a new female agency.

Clélia Lacam received her M.Phil. in African History from the same university, and she was awarded the 2021 Mnémosyne Prize for the best French masters dissertation on women’s and gender history. Thanks to this prize, she published her first book in 2023 (Le Bleu et le Noir. Jeux de pouvoirs dans une mission catholique féminine, Gabon, 1911-1955). In addition to her research, she teaches Modern European History at Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne University. She plans to visit Columbia University to conduct documentary research in Protestant missionary archives in New York City and Philadelphia.

Claude Basdevant was a professor at École polytechnique and Head of its Department of Mechanics, whose Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique has a long history of scientific collaboration with Columbia University in climate studies.

Christophe Josserand is a physicist at École polytechnique whose research focuses on the dynamics of multiphase flows, including drop impact, solidification and fragmentation, as well as turbulence. His Alliance short-term visiting professorship at Columbia was developed with Professor Qiang Du of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, in a reciprocal exchange focused on the dynamics of interfaces and turbulence models, and included a series of lectures.

Christophe Jaffrelot is a senior research fellow at Sciences Po (CERI) specializing in South Asian politics. With Sudipta Kaviraj of Columbia, he co-led an Alliance project on Indian conservatism, which seeks to understand India's conservative tradition in its own terms, its core principles and internal diversity, and how it has shaped Indian politics, even as economic change, eroding caste hierarchies and religious reform transform Indian society.

Christina Kalogeropoulou is a PhD candidate in philosophy at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, under the supervision of Professor Emmanuel Picavet. Her doctoral dissertation, L’artificialisation de l’interaction : le dialogue entre nouvelles technologies et institutions, examines how emerging technologies, and particularly artificial intelligence, reshape institutional decision-making processes.

She holds an MA in Philosophie et Société from Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, an MSc in Science and Technology Studies, and a BA in Philosophy, Education, and Psychology from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, where she graduated top of her class (valedictorian). Her doctoral research is funded by the Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation. She previously received two Konrad- Adenauer-Stiftung scholarships during her graduate studies (Greece/Cyprus and France).

Beyond academia, she has professional experience in marketing and science communication. From 2019 to 2021, she served as Digital Editor-in-Chief of a science communication non-governmental organization. She has also worked as a research intern at the Fédération Nationale des Coopératives de Consommateurs and at the Centre Internet et Société of the CNRS in Paris.

Her interests extend to digital governance and policymaking processes. She currently serves on the Executive Committee of Digital World Summit Greece, a national initiative of the United Nations Internet Governance Forum (IGF), and is a co-founder of Digital Dialogues, a non-governmental organization dedicated to fostering democratic dialogue on digital technologies.

After receiving a Master's degree in American Studies at Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Charlotte Thomas Hébert is pursuing a PhD in Political Science at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, where she coordinates the doctoral seminar on social movements. Her dissertation examines the American Left's adaptation to the judicial, legal and police constraints that regulate contemporary activism. Her research interests include political violence and nonviolence, the evolution of identity politics and social movements in the neoliberal age. She has been a visiting scholar at the CUNY Graduate Center and a visiting fellow at Brown University.

Charles Steinman is a PhD Candidate in the Department of History at Columbia University, where he works on the experience of power and jurisdiction in medieval societies. His dissertation, “Embodiment of Jurisdiction: Petty Officialdom and Enforcement in the Lower Rhône Valley, c. 1200-1350,” supervised by Professor Adam Kosto, explores the changing role of official and quasi/unofficial enforcers in the assertion, maintenance, and disruption of jurisdictional lordship in the shadow of state-building campaigns in the medieval Bas-Languedoc and Provence. Charles is also interested in Jewish communal government in the medieval Midi, and is currently preparing a French-language article on the synagogue of 14th-century Arles as a political space.

Charles Bodon is a second-year Ph.D. Candidate and Teaching Fellow in contemporary philosophy at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne under the supervision of Pr. Jocelyn Benoist. He is conducting a thesis titled “The Web of Reality: New Realism Facing the Virtuality of the Web” which explores the conceptual problems that digital environments like virtual reality, deepfakes, and social networks raise. 

He holds a double master's degree in philosophy of science (2020) and contemporary philosophy (2021) from the University of Paris 1, and is also an independent expert member of the Digital College France 2030 of the French Secretary General for Investment since 2023. 

His research focuses on the new types of realism to which the Web's digital devices subject users. The whole challenge of his thesis consists of a conceptual analysis of the notion of “connection”: what does “connect” and “being connected” to someone, a machine, a network, a virtual space mean? In this, he tries to define the Web no longer, as tradition dictates, as being the place of a conflict between virtuality and reality, but, on the contrary, as a set of practices allowing a renewal of the relationship with others and with reality. 

Parallelly to his activity of research and teaching Charles is passionate about learning new languages and is currently learning Japanese and Italian. Also, as an amateur musician, he plays piano and pipe organ whenever he can. His favorite composers are Buxtehude and Rachmaninoff. 

Caroline Yu is a PhD candidate in the Columbia Laboratory for Unconventional Electronics at Columbia University. She received her B.Eng. in electrical engineering from The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in 2015. Her research focuses on hybrid thin-film flexible electronics for mechanical sensing; her Alliance stay was hosted by Professor Yvan Bonnassieux at École polytechnique.

Carlos J. Alonso is the Morris A. and Alma Schapiro Professor in the Humanities. He came to the Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures at Columbia in fall 2005 from the University of Pennsylvania, where he was the Edwin B. and Leonore R. Williams Professor of Romance Languages. He specializes in 19th- and 20th-century Latin American intellectual history and cultural production, and in contemporary literary and cultural theory. He is the author of Modernity and Autochthony: The Spanish American Regional Novel (Cambridge UP), and The Burden of Modernity: The Rhetoric of Cultural Discourse in Spanish America (Oxford UP), and editor of Julio Cortázar: New Readings (Cambridge UP). He was also Editor of PMLA—arguably the premier journal of literary criticism and theory—during 2000-03, and edited the Hispanic Review in 2003-06, a period that ushered in changes that led to an award in 2005 for best journal design by the Council of Editors of Learned Journals. While at Penn, Prof. Alonso was the recipient of a Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching, the university's highest award for pedagogical excellence.

At Columbia he was chair of the department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures from 2005-10, and was Director of Undergraduate Studies for the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society for four years. He has taught recently the required graduate seminar on "Literary and Cultural Theory" and the course "Theories of Culture in Latin America." Under his editorship the department's Revista Hispánica Moderna received the 2009 Council of Editors of Learned Journals Phoenix Award for Significant Editorial Achievement.
Prof. Alonso became Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in July 2011.

Candice J. Yandam is a PhD candidate at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. Her dissertation, supervised by Rémi Bazillier, focuses on the impact of labor regulations on economic performance in developing countries. She has worked on women's empowerment, democratic institutions and labor regulation, and currently analyzes China's Labor Contract Law reform. During her Alliance stay at Columbia in spring 2019, she worked with Professor Qin Gao, Director of the China Center for Social Policy at the Columbia School of Social Work, on the impact of China's new labor law on workers' welfare.

Camille Toussaint is a Ph.D. student from the Interdisciplinary Institute for Innovation and the Management Research Center (École Polytechnique, France) since 2019. She is also an assistant professor at the Management of Innovation and Entrepreneurship Department of the École Polytechnique. Her Ph.D. research focuses on global collective action problems, and more specifically on the management of space debris. She is interested as well in commons theory, public-private partnerships, standardization, and market creation processes.

Camille Lesouef is a PhD candidate in Architectural History at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, supervised by Professor Jean-Philippe Garric. Her dissertation, "Between architecture, decorative arts and garden design: the union of arts in the formal garden in Europe (1890-1925)," builds on her research master's thesis on Gabriel Guévrékian's gardens. She holds bachelor's and master's degrees from the École du Louvre, including a Master's in applied museology.

Camille Braune is currently in the second year of her Ph.D thesis at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University, under the joint supervision of Professor Sandra Laugier and Professor Isabelle Alfandary, which is titled: “For a new ethics of attention to language. From the work of the British novelist and philosopher Iris Murdoch (1919-1999)”.

Her research is part of the continuity, renewal and improvement of Franco-British studies on Iris Murdoch to date, in a common literary, philosophical, and ethical movement. My thesis intends to propound a new ethics of attention to language as a singular moral project, which Iris Murdoch intuited in her first writings, based on the one hand on a very specific idea of what it is to be attentive to language and on the other hand on the new form of attention to
ordinary life defined by literature, as an authentic experience which change moral thought and enrich our different forms of life.

In Fall 2022, Camille has been the recipient of two British fellowships: the Barbara Stevens Heusel Research Fund for Early-Career Scholars awarded by the Iris Murdoch Society, and the “Monthly Scholarship” awarded by the Maison Française of Oxford.

In addition to her doctoral dissertation, Camille has worked for two French publishing houses, Esprit magazine and CNRS Éditions, as she is very passionate about editing.

Bruno Martinaud is a professor at École polytechnique, where he has led the Technology Venture Master's program, which combines advanced scientific training with education in entrepreneurship, innovation and management. With Yvan Bonnassieux, he proposed an exchange with Columbia allowing students to spend a semester in New York's entrepreneurial ecosystem, with a focus on sustainable development, energy, climate and smart cities.

Boris Altshuler is a Professor of Physics at Columbia University working on the theory of complex quantum systems, including disordered many-body systems, mesoscopic structures, ultracold quantum gases and physical realizations of quantum computers. With Basko and Aleiner, he showed in 2005 that the states of a many-body system can be localized in Hilbert space, establishing many-body localization (MBL) as a central concept in the field, with implications for the foundations of statistical physics. His Alliance visiting professorship was at École polytechnique (2015-16).

Blase (Anna) Provitola is a doctoral candidate in French at Columbia University with a concentration in Comparative Literature. Their research lies at the intersection of feminist, queer and post-colonial studies, including the representation of gender in the Algerian Revolution and the importation and adaptation of American queer theory in France. The dissertation focuses on the construction of identity and community in the literature of sexual minorities from the 1970s to the present.

Bette Gordon is a filmmaker and professor in Columbia University's Film Program, and a pioneer of American independent film known for bold explorations of sexuality, violence and pornography. Her film Variety (1984) was invited to the Directors' Fortnight at Cannes and festivals worldwide; Luminous Motion (2000) premiered at the Toronto Film Festival, and Handsome Harry (2009), starring Steve Buscemi, premiered in competition at the Tribeca Film Festival. She was an Alliance one-month visiting professor at Paris 1 in 2012.

I’m a third-year engineering student at École Polytechnique in France, working at the intersection of biology and computer science. Outside of work, I love playing volleyball and discovering new spots whether it’s for photography or food (I am open to recommendations for New York as I will be visiting for the first time the city). 

I am really excited to join the Irving Institute of Cancer and to work with you all on spatial transcriptomics of brains' RNAs. 

Beatrice Gibertini is a PhD student in Economics at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, where she has studied since 2021 as a recipient of a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Scholarship. Her thesis focuses on the relationship between mining and poverty, with a focus on artisanal small-scale mining. She holds a BSc in International Economics and Finance from Bocconi University and an MSc in International Development from the University of Copenhagen, where she was a research assistant in the Development Economics Research Group. She has conducted field research in Myanmar on SMEs, gender wage gaps and mining.

Basile Chartier is a PhD candidate in public international law at the Sorbonne Law School (Paris 1) and the University of Luxembourg, where he researches settlement agreements in international economic law. He is a research fellow at the International Max Planck Research School for Successful Dispute Resolution (Heidelberg/Luxembourg) and a teaching assistant in international investment law at the Sorbonne Law School. He holds two Master's degrees in Economic Law and International Economic Law from Paris 1 and an LL.M. from City University of Hong Kong. He assisted Sir Michael Wood at the 65th session of the UN International Law Commission and interned at the International Criminal Court.

Bartholomew Konechni is a PhD candidate at Sciences Po based within the Centre de Recherche sur les Inégalités Sociales (CRIS). His main work revolves around the adoption of new health behaviours during crises, with a particular focus on the COVID-19 pandemic.

Barry Bergdoll is the Meyer Schapiro Professor of Art History at Columbia University. During his Alliance visiting semester at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (2017-18), he worked on completing two long-standing book projects, including a book for Princeton University Press based on his 2013 Mellon Lectures at the National Gallery of Art, "Out of Site/In Plain View: A History of Exhibiting Architecture since 1750," drawing on French archives and collections and on the research of Dominique Poulot on the history of collections.

Barbara Jouves is a doctoral candidate at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. Trained first in the history of 19th-century French painting at the Université François Rabelais in Tours, she then studied conservation and restoration of cultural heritage at the École du Louvre, writing theses on the restoration of mural paintings at the Louvre and of Napoleonic paintings at Versailles. Her doctoral thesis defines the specificities of painting restoration in private collections in 19th-century France. She teaches conservation-restoration methodology, historiography and European modern art at Paris 1, and is a founding member of the conservation and restoration section of GRHAM (Research Group in History of Modern Art).

Ayrton Aubry is a PhD candidate in political science at Sciences Po. His thesis is titled "Africanization of security in West Africa: a comparative analysis of Senegal and Ghana." His work focuses on International Relations, Postcolonialism, and Africa's agency in world politics, with a specialization in West Africa. He is the former chief editor of the online journal La Grande Afrique. He holds a Master's in International Relations from Sciences Po and Bachelor's degrees in History (Université Pierre Mendès France, Grenoble) and Political Science (IEP de Grenoble).

Aymen Belhadj is a doctoral student at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and an associate researcher at the Research Institute on Contemporary Maghreb (IRMC). He studies post-revolutionary youth mobilization in Tunisia, focusing on the political mobilization of young people around the fight against impunity, truth-seeking and accounts of human rights violations and economic crimes committed under the former regime. From 2013 to 2016 he conducted a qualitative field survey, combining participant observation and in-depth interviews, in regions of Tunisia marked by strong socio-political mobilization since 2011.

After a bachelor degree in political sciences specialized in transition studies in Central and Eastern Europe, Aude-Cécile Monnot spent a year in Prague at Charles University. There, she nurtured her curiosity for Post-Soviet studies and the history of the Soviet Union. After studying Russian during her first academic years, she graduated from the National Institute of Language and Oriental Civilization in Paris, with a major in Farsi.

In 2013 Aude-Cécile started a Ph.D. on the history of Soviet Central Asia, focusing on issues of justice and legal practices at the local level. This everyday history of justice lies at the cross-road of different specialties such as state building, practices of power, legal history and colonial studies. Therefore Aude-Cécile uses a research framework that borrows from other disciplines such as sociology, anthropology, and political sciences. 

Arnaud Maurel is a third-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Political Science at Columbia University. He specializes in comparative politics, political economy, and political methodology, with a regional focus on Western Europe. His research primarily investigates the micro and institutional foundations of public debt crises. His dissertation explores how voters’ preferences, politicians’ strategies, and fiscal institutions shape the routine use of public debt. Other projects include a formal model of strategic sovereign default and an empirical study of the impact of tax evasion scandals on preferences for redistribution.

Arnaud Maurel received his B.A. (Cum Laude) and his M.A. in Political Science (Summa Cum Laude) from Sciences Po Paris. Prior to coming to Columbia, he worked as a Postgraduate Fellow at New York University, and as a statistical analyst at the O.E.C.D.

Ariel Colonomos is a CNRS research professor at Sciences Po (CERI) working in international relations, with a focus on the role of norms, ethics and ideas in international politics. His research covers the theory of international politics, the rules and ethics of war, including anticipatory action, and the role of predictive ideas in international decisions, such as anticipations of US decline and the role of rating agencies in international finance. As an Alliance visiting professor at Columbia, he taught on the role of norms in international politics, building on his SIPA course on ethical issues in international affairs.

Antonin Plarier is a doctoral candidate in history at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, where he has taught as a teaching assistant and temporary lecturer (ATER) in North American, Western European and East Asian history. A graduate of Sciences Po, his fields of interest are social history, subaltern studies, environmental history and the history of colonization. His publications examine banditry and land dispossession in colonial Algeria, including during the First World War.

Antoine Vauchez is a CNRS research director at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. With Nadia Urbinati (Columbia) and Magali Bessone (Paris 1), he co-led the Alliance project "Mediterranean Transatlantic Europe," which studies the European political space in its Mediterranean and Atlantic dimensions, in relation to the refugee crisis, freedom of movement, migration policy and the externalization of borders, through a transatlantic consortium and workshops at Columbia and Paris 1.

After completing a Franco-German double degree in law at the Universities of Cologne in Germany and Paris 1 in France, I specialized in intellectual property and digital law through a Master's degree. 

Since November 2023, I have been a PhD student in digital law at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, under the supervision of Professor Célia Zolynski in law and the codirection of Camille Salinesi in computer science. I'm interested in the legal and IT issues surrounding post-mortem avatars, and more specifically post-mortem conversational agents. My PhD thesis aims to define an appropriate legal and technical framework for emerging technologies such as deadbots/griefbots. 

Antoine Guibal is Assistant Professor of French and Chair of the Department of Languages and Cultures at the École polytechnique in Paris, France. He completed his PhD at the University of Virginia in 2017, where he wrote his dissertation on Stendhal's lives of great men. His book Stendhal biographe was published by UGA Editions in 2020. His fields of research include French Romantic literature, biography, and autobiography. He is also very much interested in the American literature of the 1920s, particularly the works of expatriate writers living in Paris.

Anne-Charlotte Cervello is a doctoral researcher in international economic law. Her dissertation analyzes the converging trajectories of international trade law (WTO law and preferential trade agreements) and international investment law, including how multinational enterprises use investment operations to bypass tariff barriers. She focuses in particular on overlapping disputes and the possibility for several fora to rule on the same issue.

Anne Bontour is a PhD student at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, where she earlier earned a bachelor's degree in law and marketing (2001). After working in marketing for several companies, overseeing markets in Europe, Russia and Africa, she founded her own organic skincare brand, Iroisie. Her doctoral research deals with consumer behavior and psychology, focusing on consumers' self-esteem in the context of cosmetic brands.

Anna Safronova is a Ph.D. candidate at the History department at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University in France. Her thesis is on the history of the cooperative movement in Russia: actors, practices, and institutions, 1861-1932, and she works under the supervision of Professor Marie-Pierre Rey. Anna specializes in the social, political, and economic history of the late Russian Empire and early Soviet period. Although Anna hasn't finished her thesis yet, she already has experience organizing scientific conferences and research seminars with the researchers from her home institution as well as professors from other institutions as well. Anna believes that working with specialists from different institutions, the cooperation between scholars of different universities is a rich source of insights that are fruitful for research. Anna is the author of several articles in French journals. Her most recent publication is a book chapter in an edited collection on the history of cooperatives.

In addition to her research subject on cooperatives, she is particularly interested in the research of material history, the way the ordinary objects conserve traces of their usage, the biography of objects. In the future, she would like to organize a research seminar on the material history of soviet objects and to strengthen the connections that she hopes to build during her doctoral mobility.

Anna Demetriou is a PhD candidate in Cultural Heritage, pursuing a cotutelle between the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and the University of Bologna. Her research, entitled “UNESCO and Cultural Heritage in Conflict: Dispersion, Restitution, and Protection of Cypriot Cultural Heritage (19th– 21st century)”, examines the circulation, protection, and restitution of Cypriot cultural heritage, with a focus on the aftermath of the 1974 conflict. She holds a bachelor’s degree in history of art and archaeology from the University of Western Brittany in Quimper and a master’s in museum history of museums and cultural heritage from Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne. During her first year of the PhD, she completed the “Delphine Lévy University Diploma: Access to Art and Heritage – Tools and Research.” Her postgraduate work includes studies on the restitution of Cypriot cultural goods, including three religious artefacts, and on the effectiveness of the UNESCO Intergovernmental Committee, illustrated through the Bogazkoy Sphinx and the Parthenon Sculptures.

Anitra Lourie is a PhD candidate at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, in co-direction with Télécom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, specializing in Design, Art and Media. She is affiliated with the Sorbonne's Lab ACTE and Télécom's CoDesign Lab. Her dissertation, "Framing Network Narratives: Reflexive Artistic Identities," examines how contemporary artists reappropriate social media networks to create critical and reflexive identities. She has taught Philosophy of Art, Design, Art and Media, and Art History and Digital Humanities at Paris 1, Sorbonne Nouvelle and the University of Rouen Normandy.

Professor Olinto is a pioneer of astroparticle physics. Her research has made seminal contributions to our understanding of the inflationary origins of the universe, the cosmological effects of magnetic fields, the structure of neutron stars, and the highest energy cosmic rays, gamma-rays, and neutrinos. The implications of her work touch on everything from the workings of the universe to the evolution of life on this planet.

Professor Olinto comes to Columbia with an extensive background in academic administration and leadership. In her role as Dean of the Division of the Physical Sciences, which she has held since 2018, she oversees the departments of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Chemistry, Computer Science, Geophysical Sciences, Mathematics, Physics, and Statistics, as well as a number of research institutes and centers at the University of Chicago. Twice, she served as Chair of the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics.

Andrew J. Millis is a professor of physics at Columbia University working at the intersection of theoretical physics and materials science. As Alliance Visiting Professor at École polytechnique in spring 2012, he began collaborations with Antoine Georges, Silke Biermann and Leonid Pourovskii on predictive theoretical tools for transition metal oxides with correlated electron properties such as high-temperature superconductivity and colossal magnetoresistance, which continued through an Alliance joint project.

Andrew Gelman is a professor of statistics and political science at Columbia University and founding director of its Applied Statistics Center. He holds a PhD in statistics from Harvard University and degrees in mathematics and physics from MIT, and previously taught at UC Berkeley. He was the Alliance Visiting Professor at Sciences Po in 2009-10.

Andrea Di Gesu is a PhD candidate at the Scuola Normale Superiore (Pisa) and the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, under the supervision of Roberto Esposito and Jean-François Braunstein. He graduated from Roma Tre University with a thesis on the concept of form of life in Wittgenstein's philosophy. His current research addresses the concept of political community in the thought of Wittgenstein and Foucault; he also works on Judith Butler, Stanley Cavell, Emerson and the Transcendentalists, Walter Benjamin, Giorgio Agamben and contemporary Italian thought. He has published with Edizioni Ca' Foscari, Quodlibet and Philosophy and Social Criticism.

Anaïs Goburdhun is a graduate engineer in agronomy from AgroParisTech and holds a master's degree in sustainable development economics. She is a PhD student in economics at École polytechnique, working on natural disasters and catastrophe insurance.

Anaïs Boutru-Creveuil is a doctoral candidate at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. After more than ten years as a negotiation practitioner in the French retail sector (Amazon.fr and Carrefour), she turned to research; her thesis examines legitimacy within the negotiation process, through the case of a strategic alliance in the retail sector. Her Alliance project was developed with Professor Daniel R. Ames of Columbia Business School.

Amy Hungerford, a longtime Yale professor and academic administrator, has been appointed executive vice president for Arts and Sciences and dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Her appointment begins January 1.

A scholar of twentieth- and twenty-first-century American literature, Hungerford comes to Columbia after leading Yale’s humanities division since 2016. In that role, she oversaw a major capital project to create a central hub for humanities on Yale’s campus and efforts to increase cross-school collaborations. 

As head of Columbia’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Hungerford will oversee the twenty-eight departments whose members teach students at Columbia College, the School of General Studies, the School of the Arts, the School of Professional Studies, and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.

“Amy’s career has combined notable scholarship and tireless mentoring with a wealth of experience in administering core academic programs,” said President Lee C. Bollinger. “Her oversight of twenty-three humanities departments and programs at Yale has demonstrated a talent for effective stewardship of resources and for the recruitment, hiring, and advancement of the highest-caliber faculty.”

Hungerford succeeds Maya Tolstoy, a marine geophysicist who has served as interim executive vice president for Arts and Sciences since September 2018, when statistics professor David Madigan stepped down after five years in the position.

Amandine Gorse is a PhD student at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne under the supervision of Professor Étienne Jollet, with a thesis in art history on "Art and fashion criticism in French women's newspapers (1750-1804)." Her research brings together the history of art, women, fashion and the press. She contributed to a scholarly anthology directed by Anne Lafont at the National Institute of Art History (INHA), co-organized the international symposium "Art and Sociability in the Eighteenth Century," and carried out digitization campaigns of textile collections at the Palais Galliera and graphic collections at the Von Parish Kostümbibliothek in Munich.

Aline Caillet is an art theorist at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. With Columbia's Jane Gaines, she co-led the Alliance research group "Art documentaire / Documentary Art: challenges to politics and aesthetics," which links Francophone and Anglo-American traditions in documentary theory and asks how new artistic methods disrupt our relation to reference, information and "truth." The project included workshops and symposia in New York and Paris towards the exhibition "Documentary Art & Activism Then and Now."

Alice Lasvergnas is a Ph.D. candidate in political theory at Sciences Po Paris. She specializes in democratic theory, the history of ideas, the philosophy of social science and the sociology of quantification. Her main topic of interest is the redefinition of democratic participation in mass societies.

Her research currently investigates the influence of methodological debates in American political science in the 1940s on the redefinition of democratic ideals in the 1960s. Her goal is to contrast different approaches of individual action based on scientific practices to then confront early definitions of participatory democracy.

Ms Lasvergnas holds a Master’s degree in political theory from Sciences Po Paris and a Bachelor’s degree in philosophy and history.

Alfred Galichon is an economist (then at École polytechnique's Department of Economics). With Bernard Salanié of Columbia, he led the Alliance project "Analyzing complementarities on matching markets," which develops econometric models of matching markets, such as the marriage market and the matching of employees to positions, that bridge the gap between general matching theory and models simple enough to be taken to the data.

Alexander Stille is the San Paolo Professor of International Journalism at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, where he designed the politics curriculum of the school's interdisciplinary M.A. program. A longtime contributor to The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books and The New York Times, and a columnist for La Repubblica, he is the author of books including The Future of the Past (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2002).

Alessandra Casella is a Columbia University economist. She began an Alliance visiting professorship at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne in January 2020, teaching in the Master II in Analyse et Politique Économique at the Paris School of Economics, until the pandemic cut her stay short. Her collaboration with Antonin Macé at PSE produced the paper "Does Vote Trading Improve Welfare?" (Annual Review of Economics). She returned in spring 2022 to complete interrupted projects with Francis Bloch, Jean-François Laslier and Olivier Compte at PSE.

Alessandra Casella is a Columbia University economist. She began an Alliance visiting professorship at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne in January 2020, teaching in the Master II in Analyse et Politique Économique at the Paris School of Economics, until the pandemic cut her stay short. Her collaboration with Antonin Macé at PSE produced the paper "Does Vote Trading Improve Welfare?" (Annual Review of Economics). She returned in spring 2022 to complete interrupted projects with Francis Bloch, Jean-François Laslier and Olivier Compte at PSE.

Alessandra Casella is a Columbia University economist. She began an Alliance visiting professorship at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne in January 2020, teaching in the Master II in Analyse et Politique Économique at the Paris School of Economics, until the pandemic cut her stay short. Her collaboration with Antonin Macé at PSE produced the paper "Does Vote Trading Improve Welfare?" (Annual Review of Economics). She returned in spring 2022 to complete interrupted projects with Francis Bloch, Jean-François Laslier and Olivier Compte at PSE.

Alain Duplouy is an archaeologist and historian of early Greece at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, where he served as Dean of the Faculty of Art History and Archaeology. He helped build the close partnership between Paris 1 and Columbia's Department of Art History and Archaeology, including a dual MA and the project "Parallel Heritages," developed with Holger Klein and Francesco de Angelis, on the history of the Classical antiquities collections of Columbia and Paris 1.

Alain Dieckhoff is a CNRS research director at Sciences Po's Center for International Studies (CERI), specializing in nationalism, religion and politics. As Alliance Visiting Professor at Columbia in 2023-24, he taught a course in the Department of Political Science on the religionization of politics and worked with Nadia Urbinati, with whom he collaborated on the Alliance-funded project "Populism in America, Europe and the Middle East: ethical and religious dimensions."

Alain Dieckhoff is a CNRS research director at Sciences Po's Center for International Studies (CERI), specializing in nationalism, religion and politics. As Alliance Visiting Professor at Columbia in 2023-24, he taught a course in the Department of Political Science on the religionization of politics and worked with Nadia Urbinati, with whom he collaborated on the Alliance-funded project "Populism in America, Europe and the Middle East: ethical and religious dimensions."

Adrien Estève is a PhD student at the Sciences Po Center for International Studies (CERI), supervised by Ariel Colonomos. His dissertation examines the emergence of environmental and climate-related challenges in defense policies in France and the United States, showing how military institutions frame climate change and resource depletion as security threats or strategic targets, and how this framing shapes defense policy and the pursuit of public legitimacy. His Alliance stay supported fieldwork with the US armed forces, the Department of Defense and associated think tanks.

Adrian Favell is a sociologist at Sciences Po's Centre for European Studies (CEE), with a background combining philosophy, geography and political science, and research interests in both contemporary Europe and Asia. His work spans comparative-historical, ethnographic and quantitative methods, with expertise in new migrations and mobilities in Europe and the effects of regional integration. He has lived and worked in several European countries and Japan and was previously a professor of sociology at UCLA. His Alliance visiting professorship at Columbia (2013-14) connected him with Sociology, the Committee on Global Thought and European studies.

Julie Louws holds a Master’s degree in International private Law and international Business (Paris 1
University) and two Bachelor's degrees in Philosophy and law.

Julie is a Ph.D. candidate in International Private Law at Sorbonne Law School, entering her third year under the supervision of Professor Pascal de Vareilles-Sommières. Julie's thesis is about the power of the judge concerning foreign law enforcement in France. She is trying to understand how foreign law is researched, interpreted, and analyzed by the judge. In the French legal system, the judge is conceived as being passive, he is not an actor. This representation of the judge is incrementally changing due to the new prevailing role of international jurisdiction which tends to give more power to national judges. This « realistic » approach needs to be compared with
the American legal system. Julie also is a teaching assistant, she has taught International Private Law and International Arbitration. This year she will teach Contract Law and Civil Procedure. 

Jeremy Perelman has been involved in a variety of research, teaching and advocacy projects in the fields of human rights and development in the U.S., South Africa, Ghana, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Latin America. He notably co-directed a research project for French institutions on access to justice in South Africa in 2000-2001, and was a researcher and consultant for the Center for Economic and Social Rights, an international NGO based in New York.

A member of the Paris Bar, Perelman holds Masters degrees in International Law and International Affairs from Stanford Law School and the Fletcher School at Tufts University, as well as a Doctorate (S.J.D.) from Harvard Law School. His research focuses on the intersection between human rights based approaches to sustainable development, global economic governance, and social change advocacy in the Global South. He is the co-editor of Stones of Hope: How African Activists Reclaim Human rights to Challenge Global Poverty (with Lucie E. White eds., Stanford University Press, November 2010), a volume co-authored by African human rights advocates and social justice scholars. He has participated in several Workshops organized by the Harvard Law School Institute for Global Law and Policy (IGLP) as a Faculty member since 2012, and has received IGLP grants to co-direct research projects on Human Rights, Poverty and Heterodox Approaches to Development. More recently, he is the co-recipient of a grant from Sciences Po’s Scientific Advisory Board to examine ‘blind spots in international law’ in the field of global value chains. He is also the co-editor of the International Academy of Comparative Law’s reports on the fight against poverty and the right to development.

Before joining Sciences Po Law School in September 2011, Jeremy Perelman has been a Lecturer-in-Law and Fellow in Residence at the Human Rights Institute at Columbia Law School, and a Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Connecticut School of Law.

Jeremy Perelman is Associate Professor (with tenure) at the Sciences Po Law School. He teaches or has taught courses on International Human Rights Law, Economic and Social Rights, Human Rights & Society, Human Rights, Global Poverty and Sustainable Development, as well as Human Rights and International Investment Law at the law school, college or Paris School of International Affairs (PSIA). He has been a visiting professor at the University of Tel Aviv as well as the European Inter-University Center for Human Rights in Venice.

He is also the Faculty and Executive Director of the Sciences Po Law School Clinic. He was awarded two Seed Grant for Joint Faculty Projects from the Alliance Columbia program in 2012 and 2016, as well as a grant from the French Ministry of Justice's Mission de Recherche Droit et Justice in November 2013 for a collaborative project co-directed with Marie Mercat-Bruns focusing on anti-discrimination law and institutions. He sits on the Editorial Committee of the European Journal of Human Rights.

Fields of Expertise: 

• Public International law
• Economic development
• Human rights

Claudia D'Ambrosio is a faculty member at École polytechnique. Her Alliance visiting professorship at Columbia, paired with a reciprocal visit by Columbia's Sharon Di, aimed to launch joint research projects and to strengthen the BS/MS student exchange between the two institutions, including co-advising students interested in transportation, operations research and data science.

Ash is a platform on which each actor is able to sell its digital creations without any intermediary. For instance, it is possible to directly publish an ebook and send it to readers, raise funds for a new episode of a web series or share the development costs of a software plug-in between interested customers.

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