Alix Chaplain has just joined LATTS as an assistant professor at the Paris School of Urban Planning.
She is currently completing her PhD in urban studies at Sciences Po's International Research Center under the supervision of Eric Verdeil, as part of the ANR Hybridelec research program. Her research focuses on the diversification of electricity supply practices in Lebanon in a context marked by the structural failure of the conventional grid. She is interested in the governance of the electricity sector, between conflict over reform and the promotion of new public policies to support renewable energies. On the other hand, she studies the electricity supply strategies developed by suppliers, large consumers, and Lebanese municipalities. The aim of her research is to understand the electrical transformations at work in Lebanon in their territorial and political dimensions, and their effects in terms of socio-spatial solidarity.