Mattéo Lanoë

About Me

Hi! My name is Mattéo Lanoë and I am a first-year Sociology PhD Candidate between the Center for Research on social InequalitieS (CRIS) at Sciences Po and the Mortality, Health and Epidemiology research unit at the French Institute for Demographic Research (INED). My research is supervised both in sociology and social epidemiology, respectively by Anne Revillard at CRIS, and Émilie Counil at INED. I am funded by the Sciences Po School of Research Doctoral Scholarship, for the 2025-2028 period.

I am a graduate of the School of Research (‘25), where I obtained my Master’s of Research (MRes) in Sociology—which had a strong focus on both theory and methods. My master’s dissertation dove into a sociology of dispositions and socialization approach to Long Covid management, and was supervised by Anne Revillard at CRIS. My dissertation was entitled “Body and Soul? Dispositions, Socialization(s) and Illness’s Shape Trajectory Control of Post-Covid-19 Symptoms,” and was defended on May the 27th at Sciences Po (Committee: Alex Kindle, Étienne Nouguez, Jérôme Pélisse).

You will find my CRIS institutionnal webpage there.

What Am I Interested In?

Dissertation Title:

When the Virus Strains: Life Course, Dispositions and Illness Trajectories of Post-Acute Infectious Syndromes (provisional).

My PhD research project lies at the intersection of sociology of health and illness, medical sociology, sociology of socialization and dispositionnalist sociology. I am interested in the social-biological interactions which produce unequal health and social outcomes. My particular focus is on what’s called ‘post-acute infectious syndrome,’ a subtype of chronic illness and symptoms resulting from the infection of an infectious disease (such as, Covid-19, for instance). My main interest relies on studying how embodied and socialized dispositions are getting used in the health context and how, in turn, the health outcomes shape the late socialization — modeling and modifying the primary one, previously incorporated.

Besides, I also dive into issues related to political science, electoral sociology, sociology of education, and the use of methods (either qualitative or quantitative) for social inquiry.

In short, my main interests are:

• Socialization and dispositions
• Body and Embodiment
• Social Health Inequalities
• Sociology of Health and Illness / Medical Sociology
• Sociology of Chronic Illnesses
• Social-biological Interactions
• Social Theory
• Social Epidemiology

My side projects

For five years up to now, I have been a member of the editorial board of the Electoral Bulletin of the European Union (BLUE), a review published by the Groupe d’études géopolitiques based at the ENS. We publish bi-annual issues, covering elections taking place within the European continent. The publication process is done under the merry guidance of François Hublet, our great editor-in-chief!

Last year, along with my cohort comrade Éloi Bitri (School of Research ‘25; please read his amazing thesis here!), we started the project of a graduate review based in the School of Research – that is now entitled the Sciences Po Graduate Review (SPGR). After having recruited a wonderful and dedicated team of editors, we launched our first call for submissions, on the School of Research website! If you are a master’s or doctoral student enrolled at the School of Research, do not hesitate to submit a piece :)

News

• [October 2025] Our first paper with François Hublet is out in the Revue française de science politique.
• [September 2025] Thrilled to start my PhD at CRIS and Ined!

Publications

Teaching

• Méthodes quantitatives pour les sciences humaines et sociales, Undergraduate course for Sciences Po Undergraduate College. Poitiers, France. More to come next semester.

For more info

If you have any query on my research, or if you want to initiate a collaboration, please reach out! My two email addresses are: matteo.lanoe@sciencespo.fr and matteo.lanoe@ined.fr.

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