Mattéo Lanoë is a Sociology PhD Candidate between the Centre for Research in social InequalitieS (CRIS) and the Institut national d’études démographiques (Ined). He graduated from the School of Research’s Master’s in Sociology (Sciences Po, 2023-2025), focusing in his thesis on topics related to medical sociology, body socialization, and inequalities in illness trajectories. Formerly, he enrolled in a joint BA/MA programme in social sciences at the Institut d’études politiques de Lyon (2020-2023), specializing in political socialization. His main interest relies on studying how embodied and socialized dispositions are getting used in different contexts and how, in turn, different contexts shape the late socialization—modeling and modifying the primary one, previously incorporated. 
His dissertation project seeks to apply this this framework to sociology of health and illness, and to the particular case of post-acute infectious syndromes (whose common and current main expression is known as "Long Covid"). To unfold his project, he obtained a Sciences Po doctoral contract (2025-2028) with the support of Anne Revillard (Sciences Po - CRIS & LIEPP) and Émilie Counil (Ined). 

Post-infectious syndromes, such as long COVID, give rise to debilitating, persistent symptoms that disrupt occupational and social trajectories. Anchored in a synthetic theoretical framework drawing on the sociology of dispositions, socialization, and illness, this project will examine how symptom-management practices and the course of these syndromes are shaped, if not outright governed, by unequal possession and mobilization of cultural, economic, and social capital. It will employ a mixed-methods design (qualitative interviews and a quantitative survey) and will be implemented in a rehabilitation unit in the Paris region.

When the Virus Strains: Life Course, Dispositions and Illness Trajectories of Post-Acute Infectious Syndromes (provisional title)

• Best Master’s thesis (ex-æquo) for 2023 manuscript, entitled: "Politics in the House of Mirth: Dispositions and Political Socialization of ‘Grandes écoles’ Students". This thesis has been defended at the Institut d’études politiques de Lyon and has been supervised by Sébastien Michon and Anthéa Chenini. 
• Master's Prize (joint winners) from the Observatoire de la vie étudiante (OVE) 2024 (33rd edition).