Research Staff

Academic background

• 2014 – 2016 : Bachelor's degree in psychology with honor thesis at the Université du Québec à Montréal
• 2011 - 2013 : Master's degree in anthropology at the Université de Montréal
• 2002 - 2005 : Bachelor's degree in anthropology at the Université de Montréal and at the Université de Genève

Research interests

I have always been interested in understanding the deep causes of social inequalities. I have studied this topic through many approaches in psychology and anthropology. I have investigated it from an evolutionary, developmental, social and community perspective. I have worked on human universals, on gender differences and similarities, and on the cooperation and competition processes in adults and children. Working with street youth for almost twelve years, I am interested in understanding the risk and protection factors that influence life paths, especially those that lead to high precariousness and the keys that help escape vulnerability and poverty cycles.