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PhD candidates

Each year, the School of Research hosts about 300 PhD candidates, a third of which are international students, and 70 doctoral dissertations are defended.

As young researchers, PhD students are integrated into the various research units and participate in their activities, including seminars and research projects.

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Augustin Normand

Entity(ies): Center for International Studies (CERI)

Research Group(s): International order, foreign policy, diplomacy

Discipline(s): Political Science

Subdiscipline(s): International Relations

Geographical Area(s): European Union, Western Europe

Country(ies): China, France, Germany, Russian Federation

Thesis topic:

Le leadership du couple franco-allemand dans les relations commerciales de l’Union Européenne avec la Chine et la Russie, 2008-2021, supervised by Christian Lequesne

Francis Akali Oloo

Entity(ies): Law School's Research Center

Research Interest(s): Public International Law, International Humanitarian Law, International Environmental Law, Treaty Law, Human Rights

Discipline(s): Law

Saga Oskarson Kindstrand

Entity(ies): Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics (CEE)

Research Interest(s): party organisation party-based linkage political participation populism partisan collective identities

Thesis topic:

Populist Linkage and Revitalising Membership-Based Politics in an Age of Disengagement, supervised by Colin Hay

Anna Osterlow

Entity(ies): Centre for History (CHSP)

Research Interest(s): History of computing (with a focus on Africa), history of knowledge, history of technologies, global history, transnational networks of experts

Discipline(s): History

Kunal Panda

Entity(ies): Department of Economics

Discipline(s): Economics

Thesis topic:

Essays on Decolonial Development

Supervisor(s) : Clément Imbert

Kevin Parra Ramirez

Entity(ies): Department of Economics

Discipline(s): Economics

Thesis topic:

Tax Evasion and International Regulations

Supervisor(s) : Vincent Vicard (CEPII), with thesis committee members Thierry Mayer, Junnan He

Emilie Pasquier

Entity(ies): Centre for History (CHSP)

Research Interest(s): Urban hydraulic infrastructures, History of contemporary Egypt, Environmental history, Economic history, Informal imperialism

Discipline(s): History

Bastien Patras

Entity(ies): Department of Economics

Discipline(s): Economics

Thesis topic:

Energy Regulation and Housing Market Dynamics: An Empirical and Theoretical Analysis of the Impact of Energy Efficiency Policies on Homeowners

Supervisor(s) : Pierre-Philippe Combes

Hadrien Pauchard

Entity(ies): Law School's Research Center

Research Interest(s): Private international law, Transnational arbitration

Discipline(s): Law

Thesis topic:

Private international law and space: the constitutive role of law in global governance.

Jade PAYAN

Entity(ies): Centre for the Sociology of Organisations (CSO)

Discipline(s): Sociology

Thesis topic:

Hunting policies. The governance of biodiversity by hunters and its contemporary transformations

Edgar Paysant

Entity(ies): Center for International Studies (CERI)

Research Interest(s): Security, civil-military relations, the French War on Terror, military sociology, gender, emotions

Research Group(s): Violence, war and peace, State, political regimes, mobilisations, Security, defence, nuclear weapons

Discipline(s): Political Science

Subdiscipline(s): International Relations

Geographical Area(s): Global realm , Western Europe

Language(s): English

Thesis topic:

Protection and emotions in non-conventional military operations, supervised by Chiara Ruffa and Béatrice Châteauvert-Gagnon

Paloma Péligry

Entity(ies): Department of Economics

Discipline(s): Economics

Thesis topic:

Heterogeneity and Capital Reallocation: Assessing Climate Policy Efficacy in a Transitioning Economy

Supervisor(s) : Axelle Ferrière, Xavier Ragot

Anna Pereti

Entity(ies): Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics (CEE)

Research Interest(s): Political sociology; Comparative political economy; Migration studies; Welfare state and Social policy; Political theory

Thesis topic:

Dwelling the Gap: Housing as Urban Infrastructure of Migrant Integration co-supervised by Tommaso Vitale (Sciences Po, CEE, Urban School) and Kristina Stoeckl (Luiss).

Marius Perrin

Entity(ies): Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics (CEE)

Research Interest(s): Far right Mainstreaming Sweden, Norway Coalitions Local politics

Thesis topic:

"Respectable opponents; explaining transformations of mainstreaming strategies for populist radical right-wing parties in Europe", under the supervision of Nicolas Sauger and Caterina Froio

Chloé Petit

Entity(ies): Law School's Research Center

Research Interest(s): Constitutional law, Critical legal theory, Philosophy, Linguistics, Discourse analysis

Discipline(s): Law

Noémie Piolat

Entity(ies): Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics (CEE)

Research Interest(s): Political behaviour Comparative politics Sexism, feminism Gender and politics

Thesis topic:

Old and new forms of sexism and their impact on voting behaviour, supervised by Florence Haegel & Jan Rovny

Giulio Piumelli

Entity(ies): Centre for History (CHSP)

Research Interest(s): International History, History of the United States, History of Economic Globalization

Discipline(s): History

Niklas Plaetzer

Entity(ies): Center for Political Research (CEVIPOF)

Discipline(s): Political Science

Alberto Polimeni

Entity(ies): Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics (CEE)

Research Interest(s): populism, comparative politics, party competition, mixed methods research, public policy, far-right parties

Thesis topic:

Beyond vote-seeking: how populist crisis narratives disrupt mainstream party policy agendas.

Manon Pothet

Entity(ies): Centre for Research on Social Inequalities (CRIS)

Research Interest(s): Education, Social Diversity, Urban Segregation

Discipline(s): Sociology

Thesis topic:

Mixité sociale dans la ville et à l'école. Ségrégations urbaines et inégalités scolaires à Paris
 

Gabriel Pourre

Entity(ies): Center for International Studies (CERI)

Research Interest(s): Ethics of war, Just war, Law of Armed Conflict, Nuclear and deterrence strategy, International Political Theory

Research Group(s): Security, defence, nuclear weapons, Violence, war and peace

Discipline(s): Political Science

Subdiscipline(s): International Relations, Political Theory

Geographical Area(s): Global realm

Country(ies): United States of America

Language(s): English, Chinese, Italian

Thesis topic:

La politique de ciblage nucléaire des États-Unis face au droit des conflits armés, supervised by Ariel Colonomos

Sophia Praetorius

Entity(ies): Department of Economics

Discipline(s): Economics

Thesis topic:

Trade Cost and Global Production Networks

Supervisor(s) :  Thierry MAYER

Marta Prata Domingos

Entity(ies): Law School's Research Center

Research Interest(s): European Social Security Law

Discipline(s): Law

Jianli Prone

Entity(ies): Centre for the Sociology of Organisations (CSO)

Research Interest(s): Professions, Policing, Care

Research Group(s): Work, Employment and Professions, Public Policy and Transformations of the State, Law, Norms and Regulation

Discipline(s): Sociology

Thesis topic:

The Uniform Tested by Feelings: Promoting the “Human Dimension” in Police Work, Differential Appropriations, and Consequences for Practices

Prarthana Puthran

Entity(ies): Center for Political Research (CEVIPOF)

Research Interest(s): Affective polarisation, India, democracy

Discipline(s): Political Science

Benjamin Puybareau

Entity(ies): Center for International Studies (CERI)

Research Interest(s): The norm of secrecy in IR, normative debates in IR, history of secret services, intelligence service cooperation

Research Group(s): International order, foreign policy, diplomacy

Discipline(s): Political Science

Subdiscipline(s): International Relations

Geographical Area(s): Global realm , North America, Western Europe

Country(ies): France, United Kingdom, United States of America

Thesis topic:

Secrecy and unveiling in international relations: the reconfigurations of the norm of secrecy in the Western world, supervised by Ariel Colonomos et de Thierry Balzacq

Jiawei Qian

Entity(ies): Department of Economics

Thesis topic:

Public Goods Auctions in Small Open Source Projects

Supervisor : Franz Ostrizek

Yuqing Qiu

Entity(ies): Centre for History (CHSP)

Research Interest(s): Transnational history, China

Discipline(s): History

Grégoire Ramé

Entity(ies): Center for International Studies (CERI)

Research Interest(s): Extractivism, political ecology and urban metabolisms

Research Group(s): Global economy, capitalism, extraction, Migrations, diasporas, borders, cities and territories

Discipline(s): Geography

Subdiscipline(s): Urban Geography

Geographical Area(s): East Asia

Country(ies): Taiwan

Language(s): French, English, Chinese

Thesis topic:

Les marchands de sable de Taïwan : pour une écologie urbaine de l'extractivisme ordinaire, supervised by Eric Verdeil & Melissa Marschke

Jakob Rauschendorfer

Entity(ies): Department of Economics

Discipline(s): Economics

Thesis topic:

Imports, External Protection, and Primary Producer Gains from Export Expansion: Three Essays on Firms and Trade in Low-Income Countries

Supervisor(s) : Johannes Boehm

Juliette Refle

Entity(ies): Center for International Studies (CERI)

Research Group(s): Migrations, diasporas, borders, cities and territories, Environmental risks and planetary limits

Discipline(s): Political Science

Subdiscipline(s): Political Sociology, International Relations

Geographical Area(s): West Africa

Country(ies): Benin, Nigeria

Thesis topic:

Expériences ordinaires des changements climatiques : mobilisations, adaptations, contestations dans les quartiers littoraux urbains de Lagos (Nigéria) et Cotonou (Bénin), supervised by Laurent Fourchard

Maximilian Reinold

Entity(ies): Center for International Studies (CERI)

Research Group(s): Security, defence, nuclear weapons, International order, foreign policy, diplomacy

Geographical Area(s): Oceania, Seas and Oceans, South Asia

Thesis topic:

Preserving Maritime Order in an Era of Great Power Competition Mapping the Emerging Naval Security Cooperation System in the Indo-Pacific and Europe’s Role Therein, supervised by Hugo Meijer

Éric Repetto

Entity(ies): Center for International Studies (CERI)

Research Group(s): Science, technology and power

Discipline(s): Political Science

Subdiscipline(s): International Relations, Political Theory

Geographical Area(s): Global realm

Thesis topic:

Sovereignty practices in the interactions between states and digital platforms, supervised by Thierry Balzacq

Sophia Riahi

Entity(ies): Law School's Research Center

Discipline(s): Law

Venance Riblier

Entity(ies): Department of Economics

Discipline(s): Economics

Thesis topic:

Essays on Sovereign Debt

Supervisor(s) : Nicolas Cœurdacier

Zéo Richez

Entity(ies): Centre for the Sociology of Organisations (CSO)

Research Interest(s): Sociology of health, Sociology of gender and sexuality, Sociology of work and professions

Research Group(s): Work, Employment and Professions, Knowledge, Science and Expertise Program

Discipline(s): Sociology

Thesis topic:

Caring for transgender minors in France: Building a field and medical practice under pressure

Jeanne-Louise Roellinger

Entity(ies): Center for International Studies (CERI)

Research Interest(s): Arms control, norms of responsible behavior, cyberspace, outer space, uncertainty

Research Group(s): Security, defence, nuclear weapons, Science, technology and power

Discipline(s): Political Science

Subdiscipline(s): International Relations

Geographical Area(s): Global realm

Language(s): French, English, Hebrew

Thesis topic:

The Security Dilemma in the Information Age of Uncertainty, supervised by Ariel Colonomos

Johanna Roth

Entity(ies): Department of Economics

Discipline(s): Economics

Thesis topic:

Essays on Unemployment, Job Search and Policy Evaluation

Supervisor(s) : Pierre Cahuc, with thesis committee members Roland Rathelot (CREST)

Cyprien Rousset

Entity(ies): Centre for the Sociology of Organisations (CSO)

Discipline(s): Sociology

Thesis topic:

Living alone: between independence and dependence. A socioeconomic analysis of the domestic arrangements of people who do not live with others

Gabrielle Sagot

Entity(ies): Department of Economics

Discipline(s): Economics

Thesis topic:

Three Essays in Gender Economics

Supervisor(s) : Hélène Périvier, Claire Montialoux

Eulalie Saïsset

Entity(ies): Centre for Research on Social Inequalities (CRIS)

Research Interest(s): Environmental inequalities, Soil protection, Land economics, Land use, Biodiversity, Environmental justice, Conflicts

Discipline(s): Economics

Language(s): French, English, German

Thesis topic:

A Fair Share of Land: No Net Land Take and the Quest for Equity in Soil Conservation
Supervisors: Lucas Chancel (Sciences Po - CRIS) et Harold Levrel (CIRED)
 

Aurélien Salas

Entity(ies): Department of Economics

Research Interest(s): Economic Theory; Behavioural Economics

Discipline(s): Economics

Thesis topic:

Information Design in Platforms

Supervisor(s) : Eduardo Perez and Jeanne Hagenbach, with thesis committee members Emeric Henry

Petra Samaha

Entity(ies): Center for International Studies (CERI)

Research Interest(s): Public space, land, State theory

Research Group(s): State, political regimes, mobilisations, Migrations, diasporas, borders, cities and territories, Global economy, capitalism, extraction, Environmental risks and planetary limits

Discipline(s): Geography

Subdiscipline(s): Urban Geography, Political Theory

Geographical Area(s): Middle East

Country(ies): Lebanon

Thesis topic:

On the Meaning of the “Public” in a Propertied Landscape: Space matters and State representations. The case of Lebanon, supervised by Eric Verdeil

Dan Sanaren

Entity(ies): Center for International Studies (CERI)

Research Group(s): Migrations, diasporas, borders, cities and territories

Discipline(s): Political Science

Subdiscipline(s): Comparative Politics

Geographical Area(s): West Africa

Country(ies): Benin, Ghana

Thesis topic:

La police morale du cadre de vie : Policing, hygiène et environnement urbain à Cotonou et Accra, supervised by Laurent Fourchard

Eugenio Sánchez

Entity(ies): Center for International Studies (CERI)

Research Interest(s): Economic Statecraft, Industrial Policy, Global Value Chains, International Trade, Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), Foreign Policy

Research Group(s): Global economy, capitalism, extraction, International order, foreign policy, diplomacy

Discipline(s): Political Science

Subdiscipline(s): International Relations, Comparative Politics, Political Economy

Geographical Area(s): Central and Eastern Europe, Global realm , Latin America and the Caribbean, Western Europe

Country(ies): France, Germany

Language(s): Czech, French, English, Portuguese

Thesis topic:

Comparative Economic Statecraft: How State-Business Relations Shape Modern Great Power Competition, supervised by Hugo Meijer

Davide Sansone

Entity(ies): Department of Economics

Discipline(s): Economics

Thesis topic:

Essays in the Economics of Climate Change and Behavioural Responses

Supervisor(s) :  Emeric Henry

Selma Sarenkapa

Entity(ies): Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics (CEE)

Research Interest(s): média, politiques publique, deservingness perceptions, politique comparée

Thesis topic:

The social construction of target groups in media and campaigns, and their effects on representation

Matthieu Sarnin

Entity(ies): Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics (CEE), The Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Evaluation of Public Policies (LIEPP)

Research Interest(s): Ecological transition, Sociology of public polic, Public policy instruments, Knowledge and expertise, Public administration, Steering and coordination of public policies

Research Group(s): The State as a Producer of Public Policies, Environmental Policies

Thesis topic:

Domestiquer ou orchestrer la transition écologique ? Les savoirs et instruments de pilotage des politiques publiques à l’épreuve de la gouvernance des transitions, under the supervision of Charlotte Halpern and Philippe Bezes.

Luis Sattelmayer

Entity(ies): Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics (CEE)

Research Interest(s): party competition, party communication, political parties, electoral behavior, quantitative and computational social science methods Competition Between Equals: Explaining mainstream party decline in western European democracies

Thesis topic:

Between Accommodation and Adversary. A Comparative Study of Mainstream Parties' Engagement with the Populist Far-Rights' Salient Issues

Nicholas Saul

Entity(ies): Law School's Research Center

Discipline(s): Law