pays: Switzerland
Glen LOMAX
A keen software developer, I was quick to apply my IT skills to provide web and software solutions for local businesses, visual artists, restaurateurs and artists’ associations, for example. It’s vital for me to support projects that reflect my values and, as a fervent advocate of cultural development, it was only natural that I should then have the pleasure of programming for schools and universities, particularly during my studies in Cognitive Sciences at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. As a result, I’ve built up relatively cross-disciplinary skills in development, systems administration and teaching (particularly at the École Polytechnique Feminine de Sceaux).
Pedro ARAUJO
Biography
Pedro Araujo holds a PhD in social sciences from the University of Lausanne. He is a Senior Researcher at the Swiss Centre of Expertise in the Social Sciences (FORS). His research interests include research data practices and methodologies, as well as the sociology of elites, notably urban elites, the careers and recruitment mechanisms of business elites, and the influence of dynastic families.
Pierre BENZ
Biography
Pierre Benz is SNSF postdoctoral fellow at the Chaire UNESCO sur la science ouverte, École de bibliothéconomie et des sciences de l’information (EBSI), University of Montreal, associate researcher at the Institute of Political Studies (IEP), University of Lausanne, and associate member of the Swiss Elite Observatory (OBELIS) in Lausanne. His research interests include the sociology of science and the sociology of elite, with a focus on the cross-fertilization of bibliometrics, topic modeling, geometric data analysis, and career-based methods.
Felix BÜHLMANN
Biography
Felix Bühlmann is associate professor in sociology at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. He is interested in life course and career research, in research on elites and upper classes (as a perspective on inequality and class relationships) and in the financial field. He often studies these topics with a field-theoretical approach and use methods such as sequence analysis, multiple correspondence analysis and network analysis. His new research project will be on the financial field in Switzerland and its most recent transformations.
Thierry ROSSIER
Biography
Thierry Rossier is Senior Researcher at the Life Course and Inequality Research Centre (LIVES) at the University of Lausanne, and Visiting Fellow at the Department of Sociology at London School of Economics. His research interests include elites, inequality, gender, class, power, economics, science and relational methods in the social sciences.
Anne-Sophie DELVAL
Biography
Dr. Anne-Sophie Delval holds a PhD in sociology and is interested in the internationalization of elite education, transnational social reproduction strategies and the theory of cosmopolitan capital. She does mixed methodology combining quantitative analysis (descriptive statistics, MCA, and regression) with interviews, observations, and/or documentary analysis. After a postdoc at the University of Copenhagen (Denmark), she became the project manager for the “Open Elite Data” project at the Swiss Elite Observatory.