Holds a Ph.D. in political science (2003) from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques (IEP) of Bordeaux (Centre d’Etudes d’Afrique Noire - CEAN). Joined CERI in October 2007 after a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at CERIUM (Center for International Studies at the Université de Montréal).
Co-director of Research in Question; member of the editorial board of Politique africaine; associate researcher at the Centre d’Etudes des Mondes Africains.
Specializes in Africa’s Great Lakes region, in particular Uganda. Her current research focuses on armed conflicts and violent phenomena in sub-Saharan Africa and is part of the CERI Transversal Projects “The End of Violence” and “Historical Trajectories of the State”.
Teaching
- University of Antwerp, Institute of development policy and management (IOB): “Conflict analysis and resolution in Sub-Saharan Africa”
Research interests
- Armed conflicts in sub-Saharan Africa
- Armed groups, militias and paramilitary groups South of the Sahara
- Reconstruction of the State
- Uganda and the Great Lakes region