The 2025 Sciences Po Transatlantic Research Fund Announces Grant Recipients

The Sciences Po American Foundation is proud to announce the laureates of the 2025 Sciences Po Transatlantic Research Fund (TRF). This year’s projects reflect innovative transatlantic scholarship addressing pressing global challenges.

AI and the Fight Against Disinformation (Emeric Henry, Department of Economics, in collaboration with Northwestern)
This project explores how AI can generate targeted behavioral reminders, or nudges, to complement fact-checking and counter disinformation online. The research investigates user perceptions of AI-generated warnings and their long-term effects on trust, using experiments, surveys, and collaboration with fact-checkers.

Choice in Structured Decision Problems (Franz Ostrizek, Department of Economics, in collaboration with University of San Diego)
Focusing on decision-making in complex environments, this project develops a framework for choices from structured decision trees, showing how grouping, ordering, and nesting of options shape final decisions. Findings will be validated through lab and online experiments.

Green Industrial Policy as State-Making and Unmaking in the EU, China, and the US (Matthias Thiemann, Center for European Studies, in collaboration with Columbia University)
This research examines why green industrial policies differ across the EU, China, and the U.S., highlighting how decarbonization and green growth reshape state institutions. It emphasizes the dynamic interplay between policy and institutional transformation at multiple governance levels.

These projects showcase the Sciences Po TRF’s commitment to advancing knowledge and fostering collaboration across the Atlantic on the world’s most pressing social, political, and economic challenges.