Associate Professor at Université Laval, Canada

I am a sociologist specialized into the study of science, technology, and law.

My first book, Héréditaire. L’éternel retour des théories biologiques du crime (Éditions du Seuil, 2020), later published in English as Hereditary: The Persistence of Biological Theories of Crime (Stanford University Press, 2024), traces the long afterlife of biological explanations of crime from the 1960s to the present. It received the First Book Award from the International Association for French-Speaking Sociologists.

In my more recent book, Au coeur de l’État pénal. Les avocats de la défense sous contrainte (Raisons d’agir, 2026), I investigate the fragilities, contradictions and limits of criminal defense under the penal State in Marseille, France.

I have been a Visiting Professor at Sciences Po Grenoble and UC Louvain, and more recently a Fellow of the Berlin University Alliance.