French Ministry of Agriculture (DGPE) — Study of the uses of rural leases in farm business strategies, handovers and set-ups outside the family (2025).
French Ministry of Agriculture (DGPE), CASDAR fund — Evaluation using the ASIRPA impact method, adapted by ACTA: how CASDAR projects helped reduce arduous work in Breton vegetable farming, and improve salaried working conditions in perennial crops in southern France (2026, consortium of Vertical Horizontal, Ressource and Parenthèse conseil).
ADEME, French Agency for Ecological Transition — National sociological study of open-air burning practices in agriculture, published report based on 1,901 farmers (2025, with Ressource).
Arvalis, GRAMICIBLE project, PARSADA programme — Advisory note on communicating with farmers about preventive alternatives to pesticides, based on their real work situation (2025).
DREETS, DRAAF and ARS Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes — Risk perception, risk management and the organisation of pesticide application work, within the regional occupational health plan (2025).
Eaux du Bassin Rennais — Mobilisation potential of farmers in three drinking-water catchments (2021–2022, with SCE).
ACTA, CASDAR — AGOR@GRI: farmers' use of digital tools and social networks in agroecological transition (2020).
French Ministry of Agriculture — Conditions for deploying strategic advice towards low-input agriculture (2018, with C.-A. Gagneur).
Arvalis — CHRYSOPOP: farmer engagement in pest biosurveillance.
Water-quality programmes with SCE — Several evaluations of farmer engagement in drinking-water protection (Re-Sources programme and others).
Marine environment and fisheries
OFB, French Biodiversity Office, and CNPMEM, national fisheries committee — Interactions between fisheries and seabirds (2021–2022).
FROM Nord and OPN, fishers' producer organisations — Discard declarations in fisheries (2024).
Energy and uses
EDF — Several missions on energy demand management, including a feedback evaluation of the SOLENN project (EDF R&D, Enedis).
Health
ARS Midi-Pyrénées, regional health agency — Patient experience of illness and of hospital care pathways (2015).
History of prenatal diagnosis in foetal medicine; life experience of hearing-aid users.
Presentations
French Ministry of Agriculture, employment working group — Elements on arduous work in vegetable growing, for employers and employees (September 2026).
Academic positions
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin — postdoctoral researcher, department of Hans-Jörg Rheinberger.
INRA (now INRAE), SAD department — postdoctoral researcher.
Université Paris-VII Diderot — ATER (junior lecturer) in the history and philosophy of biomedicine.
EHESS-IRESP, Pôle Handicap et Société — researcher.
Degrees and training
PhD in sociology, Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation, Mines Paris (2004).
DEA (research master's) in sociology, EHESS (1999).
Master's in philosophy, Université Paris-X Nanterre (2009).
Certified narrative practitioner (2024).
Teaching
Introduction to sociology, Université d'Évry (1999).
Analysis of scientific controversies; support for ethnographic inquiry into industrial work; classics of the social sciences, Mines Paris (1999–2003).
History and epistemology of biomedicine, Université Paris-VII and IRTS (2010–2015).
Inquiry into environmental controversies, AgroParisTech Montpellier (2019).
Selected publications
Collecter, ou la réalisation du métro dans la relation, PhD thesis (2004). In French.
Chapter with Marianne Cerf in Dynamique des savoirs, dynamique des changements (Octarès, 2009). In French.
Chapter in Philosophies de la possession (Presses du Réel, 2011). In French.
Chapter in Chromatikon VII (Presses universitaires de Louvain, 2012). In French.
Scientific editor of the Sloterdijk dossier, ethnographiques.org (2004). In French.
Co-organiser of the Latour conference at Cerisy-la-Salle (2007) and co-editor of Humains, non-humains. Comment repeupler les sciences sociales (2011). In French.
