I am a French scholar of modern and contemporary history, colonial and postcolonial history. My work examines processes of decolonization, state formation, women's politics and biography writing. It has a strong interdisciplinary dimension, owing to my background in political science, international relations, and African political history. 

I hold a degree in Political Science from Sciences Po Paris, specialized in African Studies at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor), and completed my Ph.D. in History at the European University Institute (Florence). In 2025, I received my Habilitation degree from the Faculty of History of the University of Vienna. I am currently a Senior Researcher at the Institute of Cultural Studies of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.

In 2022, I was awarded the Elise Richter Fellowship from the Austrian Science Fund’s Excellency Program for top early-career female researchers: it enabled me to lead the three-year project titled "A history of African female parliamentary pioneers" examining the pioneering politics of the first women in Africa fighting to for parliamentary representation from the 1950s to the 1980s, a time when politics was overwhelmingly male-dominated.

Since 2024, I serve as Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Revue de l'Histoire Contemporaine de l'Afrique. Since 2022, I am an elected member of the Young Academy of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, an institution that supports the development of early-career researchers in Austria. I also serve on the Women's Comittee of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.