Exploring possible digital systems in a sustainable world

We must make unprecedented choices to adapt to the environmental crisis in the medium and long term. We are thus obliged to organise a reduction in our material and energy footprint and all sectors are concerned. The place of the digital sector in this transformation effort has not yet been determined.

As Head of R&D at Hubblo and researcher specialised in the environmental footprint of digitalisation, my role is to provide the most realistic analysis possible through my research, my consultancy work and my teachings.

My research approach is based on fieldwork (both in terms of infrastructure and institutions), an understanding of how digital infrastructure and services work, and a mixed approach combining environmental sciences, technical knowledge, and Science and Technology Studies (STS). This approach was central to my PhD at RMIT.

I am particularly interested in the upstream chains of the semiconductor and digital sectors. At the other end of these chains, I am one of France's leading experts in the environmental assessment of the ‘net’ impacts of digital solutions and digitalisation.

I provide training on the environmental issues of digitalisation through a general understanding of the infrastructure and material base of the digital sector. Secondly, I provide my students with a critical analysis framework to understand the phenomenon of digitalisation in an increasingly socially and environmentally constrained and vulnerable world. In the interest of open education, all my courses are open and freely available.

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