After completing a Franco-German PhD at the Centre de recherche sur le droit et les institutions pénales (CESDIP) and the Max Planck Institute of Freiburg-im-Breisgau, I took part in several research projects in France and Germany, at the EHESS in Paris and at the Marc Bloch Center in Berlin. In 2018, I was recruited as Associate Prof in Sociology at the University of Strasbourg and researcher at the Lab' for interdisciplinary cultural studies (LinCS). 

I'm interested in how societies organize the control of deviances, notably through the actions of the law enforcement agencies and their interactions with the governed. My starting point is that the analysis of policing, both from the point of view of the police and that of the governed, provides an excellent means of studying, more broadly, relations of domination, the capacity of states to impose authority (or not) on those they govern, the sources of legitimacy granted (or not) to the latter, and the type of political regimes.