Research
My research investigates how digital capitalism reshapes markets, cities, and inequalities. I use mixed methods, including ethnographic fieldwork, expert interviews, spatial analysis, and computational social science.
My work primarily examines how digital technologies transform housing markets, and how this evolution, driven by platforms and financial capital, renews social and spatial inequalities of class, race, and wealth.
The geography of finance is my second line of research. I explore how digitization is transforming financial markets, services, and centres, with an emphasis on FinTech. I am a co-author of the Atlas of Finance, published at Yale University Press in 2024.
My work positions South Africa, where I have conducted in-depth fieldwork over the past 10 years, as a key site for understanding how 21st-century markets characterized by rapid technological change intersect with enduring, racialized patterns of social stratification and urban segregation.
You can find all my publications on this page.
Background
Before joining Cambridge, I was an Urban Studies Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the University of Oxford, where I previously worked as a Research Associate in Finance and Geography on the ERC project Cities in Global Financial Networks (2021-2022). I served as a Lecturer in the Department of Geography at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris (2017-2021). I held visiting positions at the African Centre for Cities at the University of Cape Town (2016, 2023) and at the Department of Sociology at UC Berkeley (2024-2025). I am an early-career representative at the Global Network on Financial Geography.
The majority of my education took place in France. I am a graduate of the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, where I was a student fellow (éleve normalien), obtained my Master’s degree in Geography & Social Sciences, and passed the agrégation. I then completed my PhD at the University of Grenoble Alpes and at the research centre Géographie-cités in Paris, where I remain a Research Associate. My PhD dissertation received two national awards: the Doctoral Prize in Urban Studies and the Best Dissertation Award in Geography.
I write regularly about the geography and political economy of rugby, keeping an eye on the evolution of this sport into a global industry.