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The team of LIMEEP-PS

Lecturer-researchers and associate researchers



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Céline Almeida
Urban planner for the agglomeration of Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines
Associate researcher

Celinealmeida@hotmail.com

Head of the department for Sustainable Development, TransitionS and Prospects of the agglomeration of Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, Céline Almeida’s interests lie in questions related to sustainable urban development, methods of knowledge acquisition and territorial diagnosis. After studies that combined mathematics, statistics applied to sociology and economics, and survey techniques, she brought her skillset in support of territories in ecological transition. She is also a geography lecturer at UVSQ.

Abdoul Hameth Ba
Lecturer (with Accreditation to Direct Research) in geography at the University of Evry-Val-d’Essonne / University of Paris-Saclay
Abdoul.ba@univ-evry.fr

Abdoul Hameth Ba is a geographer, specialised in development and migration. He focuses on questions surrounding the relationships between space and society under two major themes: migration networks and cooperation in development, including the place and role of the actors involved in development (both endogenous and exogenous). At the epistemological level, his work involves using analyses of these notions (migration / development cooperation) to understand the development actors, their relationships with space, how territories are (re) built and how migrants create new life projects, while introducing, at the same time, the question of the cultural identities of the actors in the territories undergoing change.


Ivan Brovelli
Lecturer in History and Geography
Responsible for courses on contemporary history
Associated researcher

Brovellivan@gmail.com

Ivan Brovelli is a specialist on Italy and in particular Risorgimento. He studied the case of Venice in 1848 from the angle of republican representations and symbolism with a comparative approach between France and Italy. After addressing the question of exile and political movements in his thesis at the École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE) based on the construction of the character of Daniele Manin in France and Italy (1848-1880), he devoted himself to the study of Italophilia as a factor of engagement in France.

Isabella Damiani
Lecturer in geography, University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines / University of Paris-Saclay
Isabella.damiani@uvsq.fr

Isabella Damiani is a geographer specialising in the geopolitics of post-Soviet Central Asia. Her research focuses on the analysis of power rivalries, conflicts and representations of power around border territories and on cross-border issues (including resources; exchanges; mobility; changing spaces and identities; regionalism), in particular through the mobilisation of digital tools for geographic information. She is the author of the book “Geopolitics of Central Asia” (PUF, 2013). In addition to her regional studies, she is currently developing a theoretical analysis of remote sensing and photo-interpretation as applied to the study of borders. Isabella Damiani is also a consultant on post-Soviet Central Asia for the French Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs.

Jasmine Dozias
Urban planner for the agglomeration of Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines
Associate researcher

Jasmine.dozias@sqy.fr

Jasmine Dozias is an urban planner at the agglomeration of Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines. She studied at the Centre for Higher Studies in Planning (CESA, Polytech Tours), then at the French Urban Planning Institute (IFU) and was responsible for developing a forward-looking vision and for promoting the agglomeration of Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (CASQY) within a regional polycentric approach to stimulation reflection at all levels, in particular through the PLUi. Now focused on operational activities, she coordinates multidisciplinary and cross-functional project teams carrying out urban and pre-operational studies at different scales in order to implement the projects.

Sami El Gouddi
Doctor in Economics, University of Evry-Val-d'Essonne / University of Paris-Saclay
Elgouddi@yahoo.fr

Sami El Gouddi is a doctor in economics and is currently a researcher at CERES (Centre for Economic and Social Studies and Research, Tunisia). He participates in formulating proposals and evaluating economic and social policies on behalf of the Tunisian government. In addition, he conducts research on healthcare economics. Furthermore, he is interested in the various changes (political, economic, social, for example) that are undermining our way of life, changes that are so profound that our different paradigms seem incapable of detecting and analysing them. It is essential, not only to identify the existence of these changes, but also to propose a framework likely to improve our capacity for action, in particular through a multidisciplinary approach

François Gerber
Legal expert
Associate Lecturer

Jestaz.gerber@wanadoo.fr

François Gerber graduated from the Institut d'Études Politiques in Paris in 1976, has been a lawyer since 1982 and has been registered with the Paris Bar since 1998. Between 2006 to 2018, he focused on the issue of labour costs in companies within the framework of management studies, resulting in a thesis supervised by Christophe Assens which he defended in 2018 at USVQ. At the same time, he has been working on the issue of risk in a transversal experiment with the USTO laboratory in Oran (Algeria). He is the author of numerous books devoted to criminal law and how the investigative justice system works and is also an expert on crisis management in businesses. Part of this work is the development of a reflection on the marine submersion of Faute-sur-Mer, based on risk management analysis.
 
Julien Hoppenot
Entrepreneur at Connexion Nature
Associate researcher

jhoppenot@connexion-nature.com

The gap between the corporate world and nature is possibly only a short step... one that Julien Hoppenot chose to take in 2013 when he founded the tour operator, Connexion Nature. As a former marketing and sales executive in large organisations as well as a nature guide, his aim is to create a bridge between ecology and business. His company designs and runs nature trips for corporate CSEs (Social and Economic Committees) as well as for team-building exercises and seminars based on the environment. Julien Hoppenot, a specialist in sustainable tourism, CSR and environmental education, was also a lecturer before becoming co-head of the Master 2 “Engineering of Tourism and Environment Projects” at the University of Versailles Saint-Quentin- en-Yvelines. As an expert in the field, he seeks to transmit his passion to all audiences.

Mathieu Jahnich
Independent researcher-consultant
Associate researcher

Jahnich@gmail.com

Mathieu Jahnich is an independent researcher-consultant. He explores and analyses the communication challenges of organisations in the context of ecological transition. His preferred areas of study are responsible communication; communication around CSR; environmental communication; advertising; and the environment, which he tackles taking an approach “moving from research to action”. Mathieu Jahnich is a former student of the ENS, professor in the sciences for engineers and holds a doctorate in didactics and dissemination of sciences and techniques (ENS Paris-Saclay).

Abdeljaoued Kacem
Doctorate in Economics, University of Evry-Val-d'Essonne / University of Paris-Saclay
Abdeljaoued.kacem@univ-evry.fr

Abdeljaoued KACEM has worked on the metabolism of cities by developing the concept of biological metabolism and the concept of the growth metabolism of cities. In 2002, he published a book on this question. He works on sustainable cities by looking for applications for his concepts. He has been involved with committed projects for several years with researchers on healthcare systems and their sustainability in developing countries

Frédéric Leriche
Professor of geography, University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines / University of Paris-Saclay
Frederic.leriche@uvsq.fr

Specialising in the United States, Frédéric Leriche conducts research in urban and economic geography. His work focuses on California and sheds light on the interactions between the levers of economic growth (advanced technology, cultural industries, the tourism industry) and changes in urban growth (economies of agglomerations, globalisation of cities, forms of urban development). His objective, in short, is to show that the great metropolises of the United States are the cornerstone of the influential power of the United States.

Dalila Messaoudi
Lecturer in geography, University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines / University of Paris-Saclay
Dalila.messaoudi @uvsq.fr

Dalila Messaoudi is a geographer, specialised in economic geography. Her research and teaching work is strongly focused on the spatial and productive reorganisation of French companies and on the challenges of relocation. Her objective is to measure the territorial impact, analyse the territorial effects and assess whether countries with a long history of industrialisation, and France in particular, have the means to act to maintain activities, jobs and economic growth within their borders.


Cécile Michoudet
Prag, University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines / Paris-Saclay University
Cecile.michoudet@uvsq.fr

Professor of geography, former auditor at the ENS of Lyon, Cécile Michoudet is co-head of the geography department at UVSQ. Japan, her preferred geographic area of study, acts as a source of inspiration for her teachings and provides her with a medium for reflection.

Frédéric Theulé
Doctor of Contemporary History
Associate researcher

Frederic.theule@wanadoo.fr

Frédéric Theulé is a research analyst for the agglomeration of Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (CASQY), doctor in contemporary history, associate researcher at Sciences Po Rennes (Chair of Territories and Changes in Public Actions) and university lecturer (IEP Rennes, universities of Évry and Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines). His research focuses on governance, territorial attractiveness, intermunicipal co-operation and participatory democracy.

Vasoodeven Vuddamalay
Senior Lecturer in Certification to Direct Research, University of Evry-Val-d'Essonne / Paris-Saclay
vvuddamalay@free.fr

Vasoodeven Vuddamalay is making a transition from his classic fields of study on the French / European city to the societies of the West Indian Ocean, specifically Mauritius. His key areas of study are the emergence of the social sciences in southern countries and the identification of elite classes in India and Africa that question the dominance of post-World War II academic discourse by amplifying work on intellectual diasporas and the political space. A comparative overview of the Mascarenes in the West Indian Ocean and the Caribbean which generated ideas about Creole identity,and participation in the dissemination of cultural & postcolonial studies via the literary field (involving the English & French departments) are at the heart of this work. He thus hopes to be able to study the space through the registrations of the migrant populations during the European colonisations of the countries of the south, both within the tropical plantation countries and in the “ethnic districts” of the northern cities.


 
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Doctoral Students


Lisseth Castro Soza
As a PhD student in geography, Lisseth Castro Soza is conducting her doctoral research on the influence of the tourism development models on poverty reduction through a thesis entitled “The effects of the globalisation of tourism on peripheral economies: the case of Nicaragua”. She is also a lecturer at the National Independent University of Nicaragua and specialises in the management of tourism projects, environmental certification of tourism companies and international cooperation.

Mary Cruz Rodriguez
As a PhD student in geography, Mary Cruz Rodriguez is conducting a thesis on island tourism strategies in the Caribbean and more specifically on the Dominican Republic. The subject of her thesis is the development of new tourism strategies around sustainable tourism, tourism being the main economic resource of the Dominican Republic.






 
Malcolm Pinel
Following his master's degree in political science specialising in international relations and defence security, Malcolm Pinel worked on issues related to the Russian territorial footprint in the Middle East; the interdependencies between the different vectors, particularly air and military; and the spectre of a new empire of power. The object of his research is to analyse how the reticular logic of an empire, successor to Sovietism but disassociated from communism, is made possible through a hyper-centralised state which grants decision-making latitude on the ground to the means of the power. Looking to the future, specifications for possible future settlements for Russian territorial operating bases can be drawn up in order to offer, ultimately, a geographical reading grid of Russian expansionism, if it exists.

Roberto Pollio
As a PhD student in geography, Roberto Pollio is interested in the power rivalries between the state and the cities. Based on the crisis of the nation-state and through a comparative approach between Barcelona, ​​Grenoble and Naples, he raises the question of a possible new cycle of urban experimentation and seeks to analyse the normative ecological aspect and social mobilisation in parallel in order to interpenetrate the phenomena of municipalism and the commons. By analysing the political and mutualist practices of these European cities, he asks if they are capable of once again becoming a counter-power.