I studied social sciences at the ENS Paris, at the EHESS, as well as at the Johns Hopking University where I spent a year as a visiting student. I also taught one year at East China Normal University (Shanghai).

My PhD in sociology (supervisor : Didier Fassin, EHESS) dealt with rural migrant children in China (nongmingong zinü), in particular their appropriation of the urban space in Shanghai, based on three years of ethnographic fieldwork ; as well as on the construction of a public concern towards this population, based on an analysis of Chinese texts. I then carried out two post-doctoral studies in China, in Guangzhou, at Sun Yat-sen University (Department of Philosophy) and then at the South China Normal University (Department of Geography), on rural children (so-called "left behind children", liushou ertong), in Guangdong. In the first semester of 2022, I worked as a contract researcher at the UESTC, in Chengdu (Department of Languages).

Translation, from Chinese and especially from English into French, in sociology and anthropology, constitutes another full-fledged part of my research career.