Our Heads of Research

Enthusiastic about enhancing efficiency and innovation within the workplace and broader business contexts, I embarked on my academic journey in this domain with an MSc in International Business. To diversify my skill set, I pursued an MSc in Digital Marketing and Data Science. My experiences have fueled my curiosity about the opportunities and challenges organizations encounter, motivating me to deepen my knowledge and contribution to the field. I am particularly interested in organizational design, workplace well-being, and innovative management practices. My current research focus is on work-related well-being and mental health

With an international background specializing in cultural management, my career has been marked by the management of logistical operations, the coordination of major events and the constant search for innovative solutions. After 7 years in the job market, last year I completed the Master II Etudes et Recherches en Management. The Master opened the door to doctoral research, and I'm currently engaged in a thesis under the supervision of Olivier Bachelard and Didier Vinot at the Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3 focusing on Emlyon's new research chair - Executive Mental Health.

• 2023 : Master II Research in Management – IAE Lyon III – emlyon business school – France
• 2017 : Master in Arts, festival and cultural management –Queen Margaret University– Scotland
• 2015 : Bachelor of international business- Grenoble Ecole de Management- France
• 2013 : Higher National Diploma- London Business School and Finance – England

• 2021 : Office Manager - Ixiade, France
• 2020 : Product experience specialist - Meta, Remote
• 2019 : Marketing conference coordinator - Stemcell Technologies, France
• 2018: Assistante communication digitale - Cyrenians – Edinburgh
• 2017: Events Assistant - Edinburgh Playhouse, Edinburgh
• 2014: Events Assistant - More London Festival, London

Project management
Festival and cultural management
Human Resources
Mental health for managers and executives

I am a doctoral student in quantitative finance. I hold two Master Degrees; in Financial Engineering from EDHEC Business School and in Mathematical Engineering from Université Côte d'Azur. Previously, I worked as a Quantitative Research Analyst intern at Scientific Beta and as a Business Analyst intern at Amazon in Luxembourg.
My research's interest lies at the crossroads of machine learning and finance. I also work on stochastic control problems.

• 2023 : MSc in Financial Engineering / Master in Management – EDHEC Business School – France
• 2023 : Master in Mathematics and Interaction – Université Côte d'Azur – France

• 2022 : Quantitative Research Analyst - Scientific Beta, France
• 2021 : Business Analyst - Amazon, Luxembourg

• Machine learning applied to finance
• Econometrics
• Factor investing

• Introduction to statistics

Aleksandr Pak obtained his Master's in advanced mathematics at ENS de Lyon. During his studies he specialized in Probability and Statistics. This specialization led him to discover multidisciplinary fields such as Machine Learning and Quantitative Finance. He possesses a solid mathematical background as well as strong programming skills. His professional experience includes an internship at EPFL, Lausanne where he worked at the intersection of Bayesian Statistics and Statistical Physics, as well as an internship at ENS de Lyon, where he did research in the field of Random Matrices.

Besides his academic background, Aleksandr is a semi-professional chess player. He is fluent in English, French and Russian. His favorite team sport is volleyball.

• 2023 : Master in Mathematics and Applications - ENS de Lyon, France
• 2020 : Undergraduate in Mathematics and Applications - ENS de Lyon, France

• 2022 - 2023 : Research intern - Research in the field of Machine Learning using Physics-inspired approaches, notably Phase Transition phenomenon - EPFL
• 2023 : Research intern in the field of Random Matrix Theory - ENS de Lyon

Finance, Insurance, Risk Modeling, Machine Learning

Academic articles

• Optimal Algorithms for The Inhomogeneous Spiked Wigner Model, NEURIPS, 2023

Former PGE student, I realized the M2 Research in Management last year, which led me to continue in thesis this year with Pierre-Yves Gomez and I.F.G.E. My research – still approximative at this stage – will explore the on-going societal transition at the light of the dialectic between narratives and practices theorized by philosopher and historian Michel de Certeau.

• 2021: Master II Research in Management – IAE Lyon III – emlyon business school – France
• 2012: Msc in Management - emlyon business school - France

• 2020: HR Data Analyst – Sanofi Pasteur, France *
• 2019: Editorial Assistant - Lelivrescolaire.fr, France
• 2017: Supply Chain Assistant - PSA Group, Germany

Corporate Governance
Business History

From China, Borui holds an undergraduate degree in Chemical System Engineering from Xi'an Jiaotong University, and complemented CEMS Master's in Management at Università Bocconi. With a dedication to climate risk and decarbonization, his research primarily delves into sustainable finance and circular economy.

• 2023 : MSc. International Management (CEMS) - Business and management - Bocconi University, Italy
• 2020 : Undergraduate - BEng. Chemical Engineering - Xi'an Jiaotong University, China

• 2023 : Research Assistant,RA at Bocconi GREEN Research Centre - Bocconi University, Italy

• Sustainable finance
• Circular Economy
• ESG Investment

Walkens holds a master's degree in Applied Economics and is currently preparing a doctoral thesis in Management Sciences. Using both quantitative and qualitative methods, his work focuses on the trajectories of students in French business schools. He investigates the way in which collective imaginaries, or even concrete communities, are built within institutions that produce elitism.

• 2018 : Master's degree in Applied Economics, University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne, France
• 2017 : Postgraduate diploma in Financial Administration, National School of Financial Administration, Haiti
• 2014 : Bachelor's degree in Economics, minor Sociology, State University of Haiti

• September 2019 – August 2020 : Teaching Assistant, Sorbonne School of Economics – University of Paris 1, France
• November 2019 – May 2020 : International Data Analyst, OMD Worldwide, Boulogne-Billancourt, France
• 2018 – 2019 : Survey Officer, University of Paris 1 – Observatory of Results, Professional Integration and Student Life, France
• June – November 2018 : Analyst – Citizing Consulting, Paris, France

• Big data and decision-making process
• Quantitative and qualitative methods

• Sociology of elites
• Sociology and economics of education
• Data science for social science
• Educational Data Mining

Manon is currently working on the role of the imaginary in alternative organisation processes for her doctoral dissertation. Her other research interests include the possible connections between literary studies and organisation studies.

• Master's Degree in Management, emlyon business school
• Master's Degree in Management Research, iaelyon school of management
• Classe Préparatoire Hypokhâgne-Khâgne, Lycée Descartes & Bachelor's Degrees in Modern Literature and Philosophy, Université de Tours, France

• Teaching and Research Assistant, emlyon business school
• Instructor in Strategy & Organisation, emlyon business school
• Prospective Studies Assistant, Groupe La Poste, Paris, France
• Marketing Assistant, The Hunt Museum, Limerick, Ireland

I am from China and received my Bachelor's degree in Management and Master's degree in Logistics Engineering from China. My research includes information systems, enterprise big data analysis capabilities, artificial intelligence capabilities, inter-organizational relationships, and supply chain management.

• 2019: Master Logistics Engineering Management Science and Engineering - Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China

• 2020-2021: Fujian Longyan Tobacco Industry Co., Fujian, China

• Big data analysis capability;
• Artificial intelligence capability;
• Inter-organizational relationships;
• Social networks;
• AI ecology

ACADEMIQUES ARTICLES

Zeng, K., Xu, X.H., & Yu, Z.G. (2020). Research on the optimal operation mode of agricultural industrialization in the context of Internet finance. Journal of Systems Engineering.

Long, W. C., Zhou, B., Xiang, M., Yu, Z. G., Lan, W. K., & B,Y. (2017). Innovation of fresh cold chain logistics model based on O2O and crowdsourcing. Logistics Engineering and Management, 39(7), 10-13.

WORKING PAPERS

Yu, Z.G., Gong, Y.M., Tang, J., & Xu, X.H. Big data analytics capability and supply chain: form the perspective of socio-technical theory. Submitted to Journal of Supply Chain Management.

I am a social scientist specializing in the field of Science and Technology Studies, with a keen interest in policymaking and organizational dynamics. My research focuses on examining the concepts embedded in policies related to science, technology, and innovation (STI) and their dissemination across different countries. I explore how these global concepts are adapted within national contexts and influenced by local strategies and initiatives. Through my work, I demonstrate the complex ways in which global ideas are shaped and co-constructed at the local level. I am particularly intrigued by the structure of advisory groups in STI policymaking and the underlying values that inform policy decisions.

Additionally, I have collaborated with the World Health Organization (WHO) on evaluating and developing the European child and adolescent health strategy. Leveraging this experience, I have conducted analyses using data from the cross-national Health Behaviour in School-aged Children study, focusing on trends related to bullying, sexual health, and the impact of tobacco control policies on adolescent smoking. I have also written extensively on topics such as collaboration in cross-national research, the participation of children in policymaking processes, and the effects of food insecurity during childhood and adolescence.

Prior to my academic pursuits, I served as a legislative counsel in the US Congress, specializing in financial, housing, and community development policy. I was also honored to be selected as a US Presidential Management Fellow. I hold a Bachelor of Arts and a Master in Public Policy from the University of Chicago (USA), as well as a PhD from the Copenhagen Business School (Denmark). I was born in Puerto Rico.

I am a sociologist and postdoctoral researcher at emlyon business school, member of the OCE research center (Organisations: Perspectives Critiques et Ethnographiques). I am interested in corporate failures and bankruptcies and more specifically, I aim to understand how we are taking charge of it. My research is based on in-depth empirical investigations, combining ethnographic approaches based on observation and interviews, archival work and quantitative methods. My PhD thesis focused on the everyday work life of judges within a French Commercial Court. I studied governance and decision-making in a judicial organization, entrepreneurship and inequalities.

I am currently working on a project funded by the IERDJ (the Institute of the French ministry of Justice) that I co-direct in collaboration with a sociologist and a jurist: it relies on a qualitative study of judicial administrators and liquidators. I am an active member of the Executive Committee of the French Sociological Association since 2017. I am also a fellow at Centre Max Weber – Lyon (CNRS/ENS/Lyon 2/UJM)

I am a Postdoctoral researcher at the Lifestyle Research Center. I have recently obtained my Ph.D. in Management (Marketing) from Federal University of Pernambuco in Brazil, which included a visiting period at Skema Business School in Lille, France. I also hold a Master's degree in Management from Federal University of Pernambuco.

I am passionate about sociological perspectives of Consumption Research. I research the inclusion of ethnic minorities in the marketplace. When engaging in qualitative methodologies, such as ethnography (and netnography), in-depth interviews and discourse analysis, my research projects often contribute to the literature on stigma management, ethnic consumer, consumer activism and race relations in the marketplace.

I am a political and economic sociologist studying how politics generates new opportunities for private firms and nonprofit organizations. In ongoing projects, I explore:

• the partisan ideologies underlying the government's distribution of competitive contracts to business and civil society actors
• the political structure of host countries that conditions the internationalization strategy of nonprofits vis-à-vis companies.

My dissertation centers on the rising collaborative philanthropic initiatives between corporate donors and politically powerless social entrepreneurs in China, documenting the potential of such politically fragile and seemingly unlikely collaborations to directly serve the core business interest of the companies.