Julien Wacquez trained in cultural sociology and social studies of science at EHESS (M.A, Ph.D). During his PhD, he was appointed with 2 international fellowships: one at the Department of Sociology at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (2015-2016), and another at the CEFRES in Prague, Czech Republic (2017-2019). He later worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Laboratoire d’Excellence les passés dans le présent, the Université Paris Lumières, and Faculty of Philosophy, Charles University, Prague.

Currently, he conducts research within the Neurocybernetics Team of the ETIS Lab, under the AS3 project “Decision, Learning, and Social Interaction” of the PEPR O2R program. He collaborates closely with social anthropologist Joffrey Becker and contributes to the Maison des Humanités Potentielles.

Julien Wacquez has been a member of the World Futures Studies Federation since 2023, sits on the scientific committee of the journal Terrain, and has been editor-in-chief of Angle Mort, a science fiction magazine, since 2014. The magazine received the Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire’s “Special Prize” in 2014 and was named “Best Science Fiction Magazine of the Year” by the European Science Fiction Society in 2018.

Source: ETIS page