The CONFLUENCE Sciences & Humanities Research Center (EA1598) welcomes international researchers and professors.
The aim of this programme is to foster collaboration with UCLy's research faculty on common scientific themes.
The hosting periods must be compatible with the annual university programme (excluding school holidays) and range from one to six months. The researcher is hosted on the Carnot or Saint Paul sites in the city center of Lyon (Rhône - 69).
A scientific advisor, member of the UR CONFLUENCE Sciences & Humanities, accompanies the visiting researcher during his/her stay. The Research Center is also available to help with administrative procedures.
You can apply by contacting the director of the Research Center: direction.recherche@univ-catholyon.fr.
Visiting professors
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2025
Tatiana Calderón le Joliff
Lecturer and researcher at Adolfo Ibáñez University, Chile
Research topic: Her research project is entitled ‘Corpographeses in migration literature: the Americas (2000–2020)’.
Research group: Research Group 3 – Culture(s), Language and Imaginary
Scientific advisor: Maria-Laura Moreno-Sainz
Visiting from September 2025 to January 2026
Sara BELAIDI
PhD student at Houari Boumediene University of Science and Technology (USTHB), Algeria
Research topic: Her research topic is entitled ‘The effect of the xenoestrogen bisphenol A and letrozole on reproductive function and metabolism in female gerbils’.
Research group: Research Group 5 – Ecology, Epistemology, Ethics
Scientific advisor: Elara MOUDILOU
Visiting from November 2025 to December 2025
Vittoria TRIFILETTI
PhD student at the University of Turin, Italy
Recherche à l’UR : Son projet de recherche s’intitule Normalisation et intelligence artificielle dans les dispositifs médicaux intelligents.
Research group: Research Group 6 – Study of norms in a legal, political and social context
Scientific advisor: Marjolaine MONOT-FOULETIER
Visiting from late June 2025 to mid-September 2025
Walid MEOUCHE
Senior Lecturer at the University of Balamand, Lebanon
Research topic: Son projet de recherche s’intitule Préparation des résines UV biosourcées pour l’impression 3D.
Research group: Researche Group 7 – Biotechnologies, Health, Ethics
Scientific advisor: Maher ABLA
Visiting late june 2025
Alessandro BORGHESI
Postdoctoral researcher in philosophy at the Istituto Universitario Sophia, Italy
Research topic: His research topic is entitled ‘Il cattolicesimo come complexio oppositorum (Schmitt, Guardini, Przywara, De Lubac, Gaston Fessard, Congar). La Chiesa e l’Europa in papa Francesco’ // ‘Catholicism as complexio oppositorum (Schmitt, Guardini, Przywara, De Lubac, Fessard, Congar). The Church and Europe in the teachings of Pope Francis.”
Research group: Research Group 5 – Ecology, Epistemology, Ethics
Scientific advisor: Riccardo RezzesiVisiting in May 2025
Agata KRASNY-PACINI
Senior Lecturer at the University of Strasbourg and hospital practitioner, France
Research topic: delegation for a study visit, as part of the multidisciplinary project ‘Emotional regulation, cognition, free will and moral theology’ (APJ GREMO-LCA).
Research group: Research group 4 – People, Support and Education
Scientific advisor: Jacques-Benoît RAUSCHER
Visiting from February 2025 to August 2025
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2024
Yasmine MOSTAPHAOUI
PhD student in Applied Biochemistry, University of Algiers 1, Algeria
Specialism: Applied Biochemistry
Affiliated laboratory: Laboratory for the Valorisation and Bioengineering of Natural Resources (LVBRN)
Thesis title: Functional exploration of GPER1 in fertility and in certain hormone-dependent cancers: a cellular and molecular approachResearch group: Research group 5 – Ecology, epistemology, ethics
Scientific advisor: Elara Moudilou
Hosted from 2024 to december 2024
Chahinez BOULLOUF
PhD student at Mohammed Seddik Benyahia University, Algeria.
Thesis title: “Histopathological study and assessment of selected markers in the human placenta in diabetes and in an experimental model induced by streptozotocin”.
Research group: Research group 5 – Ecology, epistemology, ethics
Scientific advisor: Elara Moudilou
Hosted from november 2024 to december 2024
Antonio COSENZA
PhD student in the humanities, University of Perugia, Italy.
His research focuses on developmental psychology, clinical psychology and environmental psychology. His thesis will examine the psychological factors that influence pro-environmental behaviour from a perspective that qualitatively covers the entire developmental spectrum, from children to adolescents and adults.
Research group: Research Group 4 – People, Support and Education
Scientific advisor: Brigitte Blanquet
Hosted from september 2024 to november 2024
Erik Sandelin
PhD in Art, Technology and Design
Konstfack University of Arts, Crafts and Design (Stockholm, Sweden)He recently defended his transdisciplinary doctoral thesis, entitled *Design and Grace*. Drawing inspiration from the work of Michel Serres, Patricia MacCormack and Simone Weil, his doctoral project explores the creative acts of withdrawal and letting go, within a field of design that tends to equate creation with the imposition of force.
In preparation for an upcoming postdoctoral project, he is visiting leading Weil scholars at UCLY to further explore Simone Weil’s concepts of decreation and grace.Research group: Research Group 2 – Bible, Patristics and Ancient Cultures
Scientific advisor: Francesca Simeoni
Hosted from october 2024 to november 2024
Fahri Gökçen TANER
Associate Professor in the field of criminal law and criminal procedure, Faculty of Law, Ankara University (Turkey).
In 2005, he obtained his undergraduate degree from the Faculty of Law at Ankara University. In the same year, he began working at the Faculty of Law, Ankara University, in the Department of Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure, where he currently works.
During his master’s degree, he undertook research at the University of Lyon 3 Jean Moulin thanks to a French government scholarship, and at the Universities of Rome and Bologna during his PhD. He spent two short periods at the Max Planck Institute in Freiburg conducting research.
In 2013, he was awarded a Doctor of Laws degree and, in 2019, the title of associate professor. In 2023, he was admitted to the Ankara Bar as a solicitor.
He is the author of three published books entitled ‘The Statute of Limitations in Criminal Law’, ‘Offences against Sexual Freedom in Turkish Criminal Law’ and ‘The Adversarial Principle and Equality of Arms in the Context of the Right to a Fair Trial in Criminal Procedure Law’
He has written numerous articles in the field of criminal law and criminal procedure. For further information, seehttps://avesis.ankara.edu.tr/taner
Gökçen is currently at UCLy as a fellow of the Turkish Scientific and Technological Research Council, conducting research for his book on the adjudication of minor offences, which is due to be published in Turkey. The aim of the study is to analyse the system and legal doctrine governing the adjudication of minor offences in France and to develop proposals regarding legal provisions and practices that could serve as examples for the Turkish legal system.
Host unit within the UR: Research Group 6 – Study of norms in a legal, political and social context
Hosted from june 2024 to september 2024.
Antonio COSENZA
PhD student in the humanities, University of Perugia, Italy.
A PhD student in the humanities in the Department of Philosophy, Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Perugia, Italy, he holds a Master’s degree in clinical psychology. His research focuses on developmental psychology, clinical psychology and environmental psychology. His thesis will examine the psychological factors influencing pro-environmental behaviour from a perspective that qualitatively covers the entire developmental spectrum, from children to adolescents and adults.
He has been hosted at UCLy as part of the cooperation agreement on training and research between UCLy and the University of Perugia. During his stay, he will take part in teaching activities at the Faculty of Psychology and the University, having the opportunity to enrich, integrate and expand on all aspects relating to the psychological issues inherent in climate and environmental change, as well as developmental psychology.
Rafael BORGES
Public Prosecutor for the State of Goiás, holder of a law degree and currently studying for a Master’s degree in Human Rights at the Federal University of Goiás, Brazil.
During his research visit to UCLy, Rafael is focusing on the analysis of hate speech within the Brazilian legal context. His research aims to understand the phenomenon of hate speech through an approach that takes into account the performative nature of language. The study examines how hate speech can incite (or even bring about) discrimination, hostility and violence, and how this performative power can be understood and compared with established legal definitions.
Career and specialisms: Rafael has been a Public Prosecutor for the State of Goiás since 2014, working in various advisory and litigation departments. He is currently studying for a Master’s degree in Human Rights at the Federal University of Goiás. He also teaches civil law.
Research interests: His current research focuses on hate speech, democracy and human rights. He has been a member of the research group on the theory of democracies and human rights at the Federal University of Goiás since 2023.
Host unit within the UR: Research Group 6 – Study of norms in a legal, political and social context
Hosted from april 2024 to july 2024
Gaia DE LISI
PhD student in criminal law, University of Turin, Italy
Gaia de Lisi obtained her Master’s degree, with distinction, from the Catholic University of Milan in 2019. She subsequently completed a postgraduate diploma in legal professions and was admitted to the Milan Bar in Italy. Since 2022, she has been practising as a criminal lawyer and is a PhD candidate in criminal procedure law at the University of Turin.
Her current research explores anti-corruption measures in Italian public universities, examining the impact of economic and cultural transformations in higher education, as well as the evolution of regulatory frameworks for risk management procedures, particularly in the public procurement sector. She has been invited as a visiting researcher to UCLy to collaborate with Caroline Peloso on compliance programmes implemented in response to anti-corruption legislation in France, within both public and private institutions. This exchange aims to assess comparative profiles and develop alternative ‘de iure condendo’ solutions to improve current anti-corruption measures in Italian higher education.
Gaia De Lisi has also published works on economic criminal law, public law and criminal procedure law:
- G. de Lisi, Il whistleblowing nelle Università pubbliche italiane: nuovi canali per irriducibili silenzi. Wanna be, gonna be o let it be? in Federalismi.it, 2024, https://www.federalismi.it.
- G. de Lisi, Compliance «riparativa» e premialità sanzionatoria. Teoria e prassi a confronto: l’idoneità del modello 231 post delictum, in La responsabilità amministrativa delle società e degli enti, 2023, n. 3, https://www.rivista231.it.
- G. de Lisi, L’omesso versamento di ritenute al tempo del Covid. Un’ipotesi di inesigibilità “sopravvenuta”?, in Giurisprudenza penale web, 2022, 1, https://www.giurisprudenzapenale.com.
Host unit within the UR: Research Group 6 – Study of norms in a legal, political and social context
Hosted from may 2024 to july 2024
Billel CHAOUAD
Researcher at the Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Houari Boumediene University of Science and Technology, Algeria
A researcher at the Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Biology at the Houari Boumediene University of Science and Technology in Algeria, he recently published, in collaboration with our research unit, an article entitled ‘The role of the MMP-2/TIMP-2 and MMP-9/TIMP-1 balance in myocardial matrix remodelling in the sand rat, Psammomys obesus with hyperhomocysteinemia”, in the academic journal Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism.
Host unit within the UR: Research group 5 – Ecology, epistemology, ethics
Hosted during april 2024
Pasquale LA SELVA
PhD student in administrative law, University of Perugia, Italy
Pasquale La Selva is a member of the Naples Bar (Italy) and a PhD student in administrative law at the University of Perugia.
His research focuses on new models of integrated waste management, from the perspective of environmental protection and competition.
Undertaking a research placement in Lyon will enable him to compare the Italian public waste management system with the French public service system, which has always served as an inspiration in Italy.
Articles :
- F. Liguori, P. La Selva, Il principio di conservazione dell’equilibrio contrattuale, dans CERIDAP, n. 3/2023;
- P. La Selva, Il PNRR Greco, dans Rivista Trimestrale di Diritto Pubblico, n. 2/2023;
- P. La Selva, Note in tema di ricomposizione dei rapporti concessori, dans Amministrativamente, n. 2/2023.
- P. La Selva, Blockchain e Smart Contracts nella Pubblica Amministrazione: aspetti di un tentativo di digitalizzazione del settore pubblico, dans Amministrativamente, n. 2/2022.
Host unit within the UR: Research Group 6 – Study of norms in a legal, political and social context
Hosted from April 2024 to July 2024
Yasmine MOSTAPHAOUII
PhD student in Applied Biochemistry, University of Algiers 1, Algeria
Specialism: Applied Biochemistry
Affiliated laboratory: Laboratory for the Utilisation and Bioengineering of Natural Resources (LVBRN)
Thesis title: Functional exploration of GPER1 in fertility and certain hormone-dependent cancers: a cellular and molecular approachThis PhD project addresses two public health issues affecting society, namely cancer and fertility. It forms part of a national framework of priority research areas aimed at studying the key molecular players in the oestrogen pathway, the most important of which is GPER1 – the least studied but one that appears to be closely related and could constitute a therapeutic target.
During her placement at the Catholic University of Lyon, under the supervision of Elara MOUDILOU, she will use immunohistochemistry to study the immunodistribution and modulation of certain molecular markers involved in the oestrogen pathway in fixed tissues from invasive breast carcinoma samples taken from Algerian patients.
Host unit within the UR: Research group 5 – Ecology, epistemology, ethics
Hosted from January 2024 to February 2024
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2023
Aviad HEIFETZ
Professeur en mathématiques, Open University of Israel
Professor Aviad Heifetz is a mathematician specialising in game theory. In recent years his research focuses on behavioural ecology and on political theory emanating from the thought of Simone Weil. He co-edited, with Denis Charbit, a volume of Hebrew translations of Weil’s essays.
At the Open University of Israel he served as the executive vice president for academic affairs during the years 2014-2017. He developed, among others, courses on economic and social justice.
His research stay will be supervised by Dr Francesca Simeoni from Pôle 2. In particular, he will be working with her on the Weilian reinterpretation of the Good in Plato and on other projects based on Simone Weil’s thought.
Hosting research group: Group #2 / Bible, Literature and Ancient Cultures
Hosted in June 2023
Carla CANULLO
Professor of Philosophy, University of Macerata, Italy
Carla Canullo is Professor of Philosophy of Religion and Intercultural Hermeneutics at the University of Macerata. She is interested in the French philosophy of the XX and XXI century. Before working on contemporary philosophy, she dedicated part of her research to Maine de Biran, a philosopher to whom she wrote her thesis at the University of Perugia in 1997 (the other part was devoted to the Philosophy of Mind and in particular to Louis Lavelle and René Le Senne). As a translator and specialist of Jean Nabert, she then studied contemporary French phenomenology (notably Jean-Luc Marion, Michel Henry and Jean-Louis Chrétien). She has also been interested in questions of contemporary hermeneutics, to which she has devoted a research project on the question of translation as a method of intercultural hermeneutics.
Four major publications attest to this path: oscienza e libertà. Itinerario tra Mainde de Biran, Lavelle, Le Senne (Naple 2001) ; La fenomenologia rovesciata. Percorsi tentati in Jean-Luc Marion, Michel Henry, René le Senne (Turin 2004) ; L’estasi della speranza. Ai margini del pensiero di Jean Nabert (Assise 2005) ; Il chiasmo della traduzione. Metafora e verità (Milano 2017 ; translation into Portuguese in 2020). More recently she has dedicated a book to Michel Henry: Padecer la immanencia. Diálogos con Michel Henry (San Luis de Potosi, 2022).
The CV and the complete list of her publications is available by following the link: https://docenti.unimc.it/carla.canullo
She is currently hosted at the Institut des Études Avancées – Collegium de Lyon, where she is conducting her research on the project “From vulnerability to vulnerabilities: the contribution of philosophy” within the “Chaire d’Université Vulnérabilités – Université Catholique de Lyon”.
Hosting research group : Chaire d’Université Vulnérabilité / Chaire d’Université Vulnérabilités – UCLy
Reception from February 2023 to June 2023
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2022
Oscar CALVITA
Doctoral student in law, University of Turin, Italy
Mr. Oscar Calavita is a doctoral student at the University of Turin, where he is about to complete his doctorate in criminal procedure with a thesis entitled “The European investigation order in the process of harmonization of evidence in the European Union” under the supervision of Professor Laura Scomparin.
He is the author of a series of publications whose research topics are related to criminal justice and European judicial criminal cooperation. Together with Dr. Caroline PELOSO, he also worked on a European project (called EIO-LAPD) on the European order of inquiry carried out by the University of Turin.
His research period at the Catholic University of Lyon allowed him to work on the works on the theme of the European order of inquiry available in our research funds in order to enrich his thesis, which is now being finalized, with the contributions of French doctrine and justice on the subject.
Hosting research group : Group #6 / Legal, Political and Social Sciences
Reception from November 2022 to January 2023
Don SPRINGER
PhD, Lecturer in Patristics
Co-director, The McMaster Divinity College Centre for Patristic Studies
Hamilton (Ontario, Canada)Specializing in the study of early Christian theology and spirituality, Don Springer devoted his doctoral research to Irenaeus of Lyon. As such, he intervened (in video due to the Covid epidemic) during the UCly colloquium “ Irénée et l’unité en question “ in 2020, organized by the pole 2 “Bible, Litteratures et Cultures antiques” of the Research Unity CONFLUENCE : Sciences et Humanités (EA 1598). On the occasion of the year of St Irenaeus, he also participated in putting the International Bibliography of Irenean Studies online, led by Professor Marie Chaieb. During his stay at UCLy, he will participate in the symposium “les Pères de l’Eglise et la synodalité antique ” and will offer a master class at the Faculty of Theology on the emergence of patristic studies in the Protestant milieu : “The Fathers among the younger siblings: The rise of patristics in contemporary Protestantism”.
He will be specially welcomed by Professors Elie Ayroulet and Marie Chaieb, to future collaborations. Two highlights of his stay will be a visit to the ancient sites of Lyon “in the footsteps of Irenaeus”, and a visit to the Institut des Sources Chrétiennes.
Hosting research group : Group #2 / Bible and Ancient Literatures and Cultures
Pôle 2 / Bible, littératures et cultures antiques
Hosted in October 2022
Luciane MARTINS DE ARAUJO
Professor of Law, Pontifical Catholic University of Goiás, Brazil
Specialist in Civil Procedure Law, lawyer, environmental consultant, adjunct professor at the Master’s Program in Law, International Relations and Development of the Pontifical University of Goias. She is on the editorial board of the Brazilian Journal of Digital Environment and Information Society and the Journal of Public Law of the State University of Londrina.
She is a member of the Brazilian Institute of Public Defense, the Association of Environmental Law Professors of Brazil.During her stay at UCLy, she will work in particular with Dr. Méryl Recotillet
Hosting research group : Group #6 / Legal, Political and Social Sciences
Hosted from March 2022 to September 2022
Jeffrey JOIREMAN
Professor of Marketing and International Business
Carson College of Business, Washington State, USAProf. Joireman is visiting as part of the prestigious Fulbright specialist programme for a period of 6 weeks. He is sharing his publishing expertise with the affiliated members of the research group #8.
Prof. Joireman’s research focuses on decision making in temporal dilemmas, environmental decision making, corporate social responsibility and public policy issues. He has published more than 65 articles, many in leading journals in his field, including the Journal of International Business Studies, the Journal of Applied Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, and the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
Hosting research group : Group #8 / Sustainable business and organizations
Hosted in February-March 2022
Massimiliano MARIANELLI
Professor of History of Philosophy at the University of Perugia, Italy
Professor Marianelli teaches the history of philosophy, the forms of humanism and the aesthetics of landscape in the history of thought.
Among his publications in different languages we can mention: Beuys e Burri: An era and its horizon of meaning (with Massimo, Donà), Piè di Mosca, Perugia 2021; Le hasard des événements, VERSANTS, Fascicule français, 2014, pp. 93-111He was hosted at UCLy as part of the training and research cooperation agreement between UCLy and the University of Perugia. During his stay, he took part in the pedagogical activities of the Faculty of Philosophy, giving for example an opening lecture during the Faculty’s doctoral morning and giving the introductory lecture of the seminar “Phenomenology of Vulnerability”, given in the framework of the Master’s degree by Chiara Pesaresi.
Hosting research group : Group #4 / Education, People and Support
Hosted in January 2022
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2021
Dean DE LA MOTTE
Professor, Salve Regina University, Rhode Island, USA
Specialist in 19th century French literature.
Author of Approaches to Teaching Stendhal’s The Red and the Black, Modern Language Association, New York, 1999.
He is a member of the scientific committee of the UR journal Confluence.During his stay at UCly, he gave lectures in the Faculty of Modern Languages and attended the seminars of the research group #3.
Hosting research group: Group #3 / Culture(s), language and Imaginaries
Hosted from September to December 2021
Sylvain AUCLAIR
Philosophy teacher, Cégep de Sainte-Foy, Quebec
Researcher at the International Observatory on the Societal Impacts of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Technology (OBVIA). He is interested in the impact of data-driven technologies on privacy. He chairs several research ethics committees.
During his stay at UCLy, he worked closely with Dr. Mathieu GUILLERMIN in the NHNAI project – New Humanism at the time of Neurosciences and Artificial Intelligence.
Hosting research group: Group #4 / Education, People and Support
Hosted in October-November 2021
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