12 November 2026Dimitri Dubois, CNRS research engineer at CEE-M, has been awarded his Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches (HDR), the French qualification required to supervise doctoral research, with the jury’s highest honours. Meanwhile, Maël Jammes and Daniel Montoya, PhD students at CEE-M, will defend their doctoral theses in November.
HDR defence – Dimitri Dubois – 3 November 2026
- Title: Experimental Engineering and Economic Behaviour: Decision-Making and Cooperation Mechanisms in Response to Societal and Environmental Challenges.
- Jury: Agnès Festre (Chair and Examiner), Béatrice Boulu-Reshef (Rapporteur), François Cochard (Rapporteur), Fabrice Lelec (Rapporteur), Angela Sutan (Examiner) and Paolo Crosetto (Examiner).
- Outcome: Awarded the HDR with the jury’s highest honours.
PhD thesis defence – Maël Jammes – 23 November 2026, at 9:00 am
Venue: Faculty of Economics, Council Room.
- Title: Pollution, Congestion and Inequalities: The Distributional Effects of Environmental Degradation.
- PhD supervisors: Emmanuelle Lavaine (CEE-M) and Marion Davin (AMSE).
- Research topic: This thesis examines the interactions between socio-economic conditions and environmental externalities using causal inference methods. It focuses in particular on how different forms of pollution and congestion affect households and workers unequally.
PhD thesis defence – Daniel Montoya – 27 November 2026, at 9:00 am
Venue: Faculty of Economics, Council Room.
- Title: Three Essays on Prosociality in Adversity.
- PhD supervisors: Guillaume Cheikbossian (CEE-M) and Antoine Pietri (CEE-M).
- Research topic: This thesis explores prosocial behaviours (cooperation, altruism and trust) in contexts of adversity, risk and uncertainty.