Research
I am an economic geographer. My research explores how digital capitalism reshapes markets, cities, and inequalities.
My research examines the political economy of housing markets at the intersection of technological change and financialization. I focus in particular on how the platformization of real estate reconfigures social stratification and urban segregation. Drawing on in-depth fieldwork, computational social science, and spatial analysis, I study how 21st-century markets operate and reproduce inequality, with South Africa as the core fieldwork site and the global PropTech industry as a broader comparative lens.
My second research strand explores the geography of finance - specifically how digitisation reshapes the institutional and spatial structures of financial markets. This work spans FinTech, financial centres, venture capital, and retail investors. I am a co-author of the Atlas of Finance, published at Yale University Press in 2024, and an early-career representative at the Global Network on Financial Geography.
Background
Before joining Cambridge, I was an Urban Studies Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellowship and a Research Associate in Finance and Geography at the University of Oxford. Previously, I served as a Lecturer in the Department of Geography at the École Normale Supérieure (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).
Most of my education took place in France. I graduated from the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon as an élève normalien (student fellow), earning a Master’s degree in Social Sciences and Geography and passing the agrégation. During my studies, I spent time abroad as a visiting student at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.
I completed my PhD at the University of Grenoble Alpes in affiliation with the research centre Géographie-cités (Paris I Sorbonne, EHESS, CNRS), funded by a national doctoral fellowship. My PhD dissertation received two national awards: the Doctoral Prize in Urban Studies and the Best Dissertation Award in Geography.
I also write about rugby, a sport that originally led me into the world of social sciences. As a passionate - and now retired - amateur, I keep an eye on the sport’s transformation into a global industry.