Academic
1995-2001 Institut
Jean Nicod / EHESS, Paris
PhD
(Highest grade) in Philosophy and Social Sciences
Title: La
crédulité : perspectives philosophiques et empiriques (Credulity : philosophical and
empirical perpectives)
Adviser:
Dan Sperber. Experts: B. Conein, V. Descombes, P. Engel, P. Jacob.
1994-1995 Ecole Polytechnique; Ecole des Hautes Etudes
en Sciences Sociales; Université Paris VI; Ecole Normale, Paris
Diplôme
d’Etude Avancée (DEA) in Cognitive Sciences.
Thesis title: Croyance et
acceptation: aspects philosophiques et
psychologiques (Belief and Acceptation : philosophical and
psychological aspects). Adviser : Prof. Pascal Engel (Sorbonne).
1990-94 Université de Genève
Bachelor degree in Chinese
Master in Philosophy (grade 5.5/6)
Thesis title: La croyance: un phénomène uniforme? (Belief: An uniform phenomenon?). Adviser: Prof. Kevin Mulligan.
1989-90 Université
de Lausanne
Excellence prize, Social and Political Sciences Faculty.
Master in sociology and anthropology
(grade 8.7/10)
Professional experiences and Grants
2007- SNF Professor at the University of Lausanne.
2004-2007 Researcher at the University ofLausanne. Swiss National Fellowship grant, project “Naïve sociology” (with Laurence Kaufmann).
2004-2005 Invited professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Neuchatel.
2003-2004 Invited professor, Department of Sociology, University of Geneva.
2000-2003 Three years post-doc fellowship, Swiss National Fund. Research fellow:
i.
University of California (Berkeley), 2000-2002
ii. University of Michigan (Ann Arbor), 2002-2003
iii.
Harvard
University (Cambridge), mars-septembre 2003
1999-2000 Researcher at the University of Lausanne. Collaboration with prof. Gérald Berthoud. Anthropological study on the emerging Information Society.
1996-1998 External expert for
exams in social sciences, Université de Lausanne
1995-1997 Researcher, Swiss National Fund, CREA (Ecole Polytechnique, Paris)
1992 - Scientific Head of a research center (ethno-history) in Champéry (Switzerland).
1992-1994 Lecturer in sociology, University of Lausanne.
Languages
English: fluent, spoken and written
French: mother tongue
German: good knowledge
Italian: good knowledge
Chinese: basic knowledge