Guillaume Levrier is a political scientist. He earned his PhD from Sciences Po in 2022, where he worked on genome editing under the supervision of Virginie Tournay at CEVIPOF. He is currently a postdoctoral researcher at CNRS (the French state agency for research) and is affiliated with LISIS (UMR 1326 –Gustave Eiffel University), working on the ERC project Nanobubbles. He is also an associate researcher at the National Library of France (BnF) where he works on the French web archive.

His work is focused on the political questions raised by the representations of life. His work on nucleases (and particularly CRISPR-Cas systems) has brought to light a phenomenon of expectation of ungovernability by which some questions are neutralized in public debates. His core case study is the obfuscation of the debate over what should be at stake with a capacity to intervene on the genomes of entire sections of the biosphere. He also works on the concept of political epistemologies, that is the ways in which political leaders can intoxicate public debates over what is taken as true in a society with discourses they know to be invalid to serve their conquest or retaining of power.

He is also the lead developer of PANDORÆ, a free and open-source software on GitHub that helps researchers retrieve, curate, and visualize data.

• Guillaume Levrier, Dorothée Benhamou-Suesser. Les campagnes disparues. 2025. ⟨hal-05117552⟩
• Guillaume Levrier, Dorothée Benhamou-Suesser. Closed data, open software: building new ways into the French web archives. FOSDEM 2025, Feb 2025, Bruxelles, Belgium. ⟨hal-04925661⟩
• Guillaume Levrier. Quand les chercheurs trichent : l’exemple des « phrases torturées ». 2025. ⟨hal-04881974⟩
• Guillaume Levrier, Nathanne Rost, Federico Boem. In the name of the crown: how to draw the line between genuine conceptual innovation and rhetorical devices in scientific research? . 4S/EEAST 2024, Jul 2024, Amsterdam, France. ⟨hal-04662424⟩
• Hazal Atay, Guillaume Levrier. Vers une européanisation du droit à l'avortement?. 2024. ⟨hal-04604951⟩
• Guillaume Levrier. Les OGM dans les campagnes, un sujet éternellement européen?. 2024. ⟨hal-04594238⟩
• Guillaume Levrier. Making the search for genome editing tortured phrases a collective effort. 2024, pp.72-72. ⟨10.1089/crispr.2024.0015⟩. ⟨hal-04594252⟩
• Guillaume Levrier. Political historiographies: discussing the Algerian independence war in the early French electoral cyberspace.. La Science Politique et la Guerre d'Algérie, Paul Max Morin, CEVIPOF (Sciences Po) - Université Nice Côte - d’Azur; Sarah Gensburger, Centre de sociologie des organisations (Sciences Po-CNRS), Dec 2023, Paris, France. ⟨hal-04637743⟩
• Guillaume Levrier. Argumenter en ligne sur ce qui n’existe pas : le cas du clonage humain dans l’élection de 2002. 20 ans de web électoral à la Bibliothèque nationale de France, Dorothée Benhamou-Suesser, Nov 2023, Paris, France. ⟨hal-04637752⟩
• Guillaume Levrier. Ungovernable genomes: the myth of Asilomar in the French online political context between 2002 and 2022. Engineering Life: Regulating Science, Risks, and Society in Europe, Luis Campos, Rice University (US); Francesco Cassata, Università di Genova (IT); Christina Brandt, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena (DE), Jun 2023, Paris, France. ⟨hal-04637745⟩
• Guillaume Levrier. L’ingouvernable à l’âge de l'édition du génome : une analyse comparée des politiques des nucléases en Europe, aux États-Unis et en Chine. Science politique. Institut d'études politiques de Paris - Science Po, 2022. Français. ⟨NNT : 2022IEPP0034⟩. ⟨tel-04067135⟩
• Guillaume Levrier. Développer un logiciel en open source. 2022. ⟨hal-04309268⟩
• Guillaume Levrier. Gouverner le génome pour le meilleur des mondes ?. 2021. ⟨hal-04637712⟩
• Guillaume Levrier. Géopolitique de la biologie : qui remportera la suprématie de l’édition du génome ?. 2021. ⟨hal-04637708⟩
• Guillaume Levrier. Tracking and Mapping the Use of CRISPR-Cas Systems for Research in China. The Crispr Journal, 2021, 4 (3), pp.321-338. ⟨10.1089/crispr.2021.0015⟩. ⟨hal-04309075⟩
• Guillaume Levrier. PANDORÆ : Retrieving, curating and exploring enhanced corpuses through time and space. FOSDEM 2021, Feb 2021, Bruxelles, France. ⟨hal-04637740⟩
• Guillaume Levrier. Re: Human Germline and Heritable Genome Editing: The Global Policy Landscape. 2021, pp.3-4. ⟨10.1089/crispr.2021.29121.gle⟩. ⟨hal-04312685⟩
• Guillaume Levrier. Nobel de Chimie 2020 pour CRISPR : réécrire la vie à grands coups de ciseaux. 2020. ⟨hal-04637707⟩
• Misha Angrist, Rodolphe Barrangou, Françoise Baylis, Carolyn Brokowski, Gaetan Burgio, et al.. Reactions to the National Academies/Royal Society Report on Heritable Human Genome Editing. 2020, pp.332-349. ⟨10.1089/crispr.2020.29106.man⟩. ⟨hal-04312692⟩
• Guillaume Levrier. CRISPR States: Genome Editing As A Biopolitical Means. 4S/EEAST 2020, Aug 2020, Online, France. ⟨hal-04637735⟩
• Guillaume Levrier. Trust and policymaking in the nuclease age. CRISPR Consensus?, Lea Witkowsky - Innovative Genomics Institute - UC Berkeley, Oct 2019, Berkeley (CA), France. ⟨hal-04637729⟩
• Guillaume Levrier. Du code dans ma thèse, interventions autour de l'auto-instrumentation en thèse de doctorat. METSEM - Séminaire de Méthode de Sciences Po, Diégo Antolinos-Basso, Sep 2019, Paris, France. ⟨hal-04637719⟩
• Guillaume Levrier. PANDORÆ, un protocole d’explorations de données numériques au service de la science politique. 15ème Congrès de l'Association Française de Science Politique, Jul 2019, Bordeaux, France. ⟨hal-04312765⟩
• Guillaume Levrier. Catégoriser le vivant : l’Europe face à CRISPR. 2019. ⟨hal-03456908⟩
• Guillaume Levrier. Édition du génome in vitro : un moratoire impossible ?. 2019. ⟨hal-03392501⟩
• Guillaume Levrier. La Chine, CRISPR et les post-humains. 2019. ⟨hal-04637705⟩
• Guillaume Levrier. À l’aube de l’âge des nucléases. 2018. ⟨hal-04637703⟩
• Guillaume Levrier. Un scientifique chinois a-t-il fait naître les premiers bébés CRISPR ?. 2018. ⟨hal-04637702⟩
• Guillaume Levrier. CRISPR : comment gouverner et légiférer les modifications du génome ?. 2018. ⟨hal-04637699⟩