Biography

I am a postdoctoral researcher working in the Digitrust Consortium to create transdisciplinary research projects. I am also an associate researcher at the Center for Internet and Society of the CNRS (UPR 2000). Before this, I defended my PhD titled “Usability: low tech, high security” at IRIF in the Distributed Algorithms and Graphs Team, for which I received the PSL 2020 award for best thesis at the Science/Humanities Interface. I was advised by Nicolas Schabanel and Ted Selker, with whom I worked on human usability of security and its applications to voting systems.

As I work between multiple fields, I do not have as much expertise as a specialist in a single field, which leads me to create collaborations with a large set of researchers and experts from different labs. It means that I am a member of multiple research groups such as the Random Sample Voting Project, where I am responsible for the organization of RSV elections, Chôros and the POP Special Exploratory Committee, a new political party/platform where we seek to implement real-time democracy. I also recently started working on US elections with the Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project. This allows me to bridge the different fields while making sure that the methodology and end results are sound.

I am generally extremely open to new collaborations, so don’t hesitate to drop me a line if you have an idea or would like to participate in some of our projects. After a decade of activism, I also recently decided to get involved in the more academic side of queer and crip theories (and am currently trying to set up a team to translate some of the main literature on the subject into French). This recently pushed me to start a second PhD in geography, on disabled spatialities, supervised by Jacques Lévy, as part of the Spatial Intelligence chair of Université Polytechnique Hauts-de-France.

I’m currently in the process of publishing a book on the use of randomness in politics. I’m also co-organising a seminar on law and social sciences at EHESS, and am organising two sessions on geography of disability in the psychopolitics seminar there.

Click here if you want to know a bit more about me, non-professionally.