Marion Maisonobe, CNRS research associate at the Geographie-Cités joint research unit (CNRS / EHESS / Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne / Université Paris Cité), has been awarded the CNRS 2025 Bronze Medal.
Each year, the CNRS awards its silver, bronze, and crystal medals to the men and women who have made the greatest contribution to its reputation and to the advancement of research. The bronze medal rewards initial research that has established a researcher as a specialist in their field. This distinction is a form of encouragement to pursue research that is already well underway and proving successful. The CNRS awarded 46 bronze medals in 2025.
Marion Maisonobe defended her doctoral thesis in Geography in 2015, under the supervision of Denis Eckert , on the theme: “Studying the geography of scientific research in the world: from the growth of the contemporary production system to the dynamics of a specialty, DNA repair”.
As a member of the Géographie-cités’ PARIS team, Marion Maisonobe investigates the dynamics of scientific networks in different areas of research and their effects on the circulation of knowledge, international relations, and the organization of national research policies. Her research falls within the fields of the geography of science and spatial scientometrics, two emerging fields that focus on the spatial dimension of the production and dissemination of scientific knowledge. Recently, she has turned her attention to the spatial logics of field and environmental sciences. Her work, which contributes to the renewal of the objects of spatial analysis, brings to light the way in which scientific collaboration activities unfold between cities and helps to boost inter-city exchanges.
Analyzing the spatiality of scientific activities makes it possible to examine various processes, including the link between the reconfiguration of international scientific collaboration and geopolitical events, and participation issues at international conferences.
