Curriculum vitae

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Education

PhD in Philosophy and Political Science — joint doctorate, University of Lausanne & Université Paris-I Panthéon-Sorbonne

2015 – 2021 · defended 5 February 2021 · Faculty Prize

Thesis: Norms and Values of the Debt: a French Crisis in Debate (1787–1791). Published as Normes et valeurs de la dette (1787–1791). Une institution financière, sociale et politique (Classiques Garnier, 2022).

Supervisors: Biancamaria Fontana (Lausanne) & Emmanuel Picavet (Paris-I).
Committee: Thomas Bouchet (Lausanne), Delphine Dulong (Paris-I) & Michael Sonenscher (Cambridge).

MA (Recherche) Philosophie et Société — Université Paris-I Panthéon-Sorbonne

2013 – 2015

MA, Intercultural Management (Japan) — Eurasiam, Paris

2005 – 2007

Maîtrise (+4), Political Science, major in Economics and Finance — Sciences Po Aix (IEP)

2002 – 2005

Bachelor, Philosophy — Université d'Aix-Marseille, Aix-en-Provence

2001 – 2002

Academic positions

Lecturer — European Institute of Journalism, Paris (full remote)

2022 – present

Lecturer — University of Lausanne

2021 – 2022

Teaching Assistant — University of Lausanne (IEP, Centre Walras-Pareto)

2015 – 2020

Lecturer — EuroComSchool (private university), Paris

2011 – 2015

Lecturer — Institut Européen de Journalisme, Paris

2011 – 2015

Director of the pedagogic mission — Eurasiam, Tokyo (4 months)

2008

Lecturer — Eurasiam, Paris

2006 – 2015

Publications

See the Publications page for the full list — book, articles, chapters, edited work, and reviews.

Organised academic events

2021 — Rigidity and Plasticity of Public Debt, international online conference, University of Lausanne (17 Sept.).
2017 — Discipliner par la dette : une histoire longue, international seminar, conceived and organised with C. Chassonery-Zaïgouche and F. Allisson (10–11 Nov.).

Conferences

2025 — “L'ambition française dans le monde, une histoire de la francophonie,” Institut Français / University of Groningen.
2024 — “The traces of 1789 in 2024 French society,” Institut Français / University of Groningen.
2022 — “Towards the Study of Public Borrowing Ethics,” Ethics of Debt Workshop, University of Maastricht / Brussels.
2022 — “How the Debate on the ECB Debt Cancellation Differs from Older (and Much Older) Ones,” Recent Shifts in the Boundaries of Economics: Philosophy and History, Maison des Sciences Économiques, Paris-I / CNRS.
2022 — “Between Knowledge and Rhetoric, Political Economy as an Argumentative Arsenal: a Study of the Debate on the Cancellation of European Public Debt in 2020 and 2021,” Justice & Interest / Judicialization Workshop, French Institute of Research on Japan (Maison franco-japonaise, CNRS).
2020 — “La normativité entre positif, normatif et normateur,” The Positive and the Normative in Economic Thought, Université de Paris.
2020 — “The social ontology of public borrowing,” Social Ontology 2020, University of Neuchâtel.
2019 — “Debt against democracy? How recent controversies may threaten an old connection,” DebtCon 3, Georgetown University, Washington D.C.
2019 — “Debt against democracy? How recent controversies may threaten an old connection,” 15th Congress of the French Political Science Association (AFSP).
2018 — “French Pamphlets on Public Debts Just Before 1789: E. Clavière vs S. Linguet,” Debt in History, University of Toronto Scarborough.
2018 — “Le ‘crédit public’, une matrice normative selon James Steuart ?,” 4th International Conference on Economics and Philosophy (“Norms and normativity”), ENS Lyon.

Summer schools

2017 — Economy + Society Summer School, Waterford (Ireland), organised by T. Boland and R. Griffin.
2016 — 18th INEM/CHESS Summer School in Economics and Philosophy, San Sebastián (Spain), organised by Julian Reiss.

Funding & awards

2021 — Faculty Prize, University of Lausanne (1,000 CHF).
2017 — SEFRI, Swiss fund for PhD joint-supervision expenses (5,000 CHF).

Editorial & university service

Member of the board of editors, Revue européenne des sciences sociales (RESS), 2023–2025.
2017–2019 — Teaching commission of the Institute; elected representative for doctoral assistants.
2018 — Evaluation committee for teaching mission, University of Lausanne (philosophy section).

Languages

French (native) · English (C1) · Dutch (A2, learning) · Japanese (A2) · Spanish (A2).

Miscellaneous

Interests: history, science fiction, politics, ICT. Winner of the debating contest, Faculty of Law of Aix-en-Provence (2003).