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2018-2024 PhD in Geography – Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (ED 434)

« Topological Urbanity: Delhi Through The Lens Of Its Human, Viral, And Informational Circulations » (under the supervision of Dr. Eric Denis and Dr. Olivier Telle)

2016-2017 Master’s degree (second year) in Geomatics – Information Systems Technologies – Université Paris-Est Marne La Vallée (UPEM) and Ecole Nationale des Sciences Géographiques (ENSG)

Research thesis under the supervision of Dr. Annelise Tran (CIRAD): “Spatial modelling of vector-borne diseases in Reunion Island”.

2015-2016 Master’s degree (first year) in Geography – Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne

Internship thesis under the supervision of Gilles Palsky, conducted at TomTom N.V., titled: ‘Geographic information as a response to the increased mobility of people and the reconfiguration of territories: the example of TomTom’s business activity.

2011-2014 Bachelor’s degree in Geography – Space Territory and Societies – Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne

2023:

• The Summer Institute in Computational Social Science, Institut Polytéchnique de Paris, from 19 to 30 june 2023. https://sicss.io/2023/paris/
• “Ninth Annual PhD Workshop”, Indian Institute for Human Settlement, Bangalore,  from 9 to 11 january 2023. https://iihs.co.in/research/phd-workshop-2023/

2025-… Associate professor in Geography – Université de Rouen-Normandie, UMR IDEES.

2025 – Post-doctoral researcher – Université Paris-Cité, UMR PRODIG.

2022-2024 – Teaching Assistant – Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, UFR08 Géographie

2021-2022 – Research Assistant – Centre for Social Sciences and Humanities (CSH), Delhi, UMIFRE 20.

2019-2021 – Scientific Secretary (International Volunteer in Administration) – Centre for Social Sciences and Humanities (CSH), Delhi, UMIFRE 20.

jul. 2018- dec. 2018 – Database Editor – Atelier Parisien d’Urbanisme (APUR).

jan. 2018-jul. 2018 – Research Assistant — French Agricultural Research Centre for International Development (CIRAD)

2017 – Research Intern — (6 months) French Agricultural Research Centre for International Development (CIRAD)

2016 – Intern — (6 months) TomTom NV

2023-2024 : Teaching Assistant, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne

• Cartography and Statistics, L1 (48h)
• Spatial Analysis, L3 (36h)
• Urban Studies, L3 (12h)

2022-2023 : Teaching Assistant, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne

• Cartography and Statistics, L1 (48h)
• Economic and Cultural Areas, L2 (48h)

2022 & 2023: Part-time lecturer, Ecole des hautes études en santé publique (EHESP)

• GIS Applied To Environmental Health, Master 2 Public Health (24h + 24h)

2023: “Digital Traces, Mobility Networks, and Territoriality” (3 hours), Master’s Seminar in Geography, Environment, Society, Territory (GEST), Université Paris-Nanterre, October 13, 2023.

2022: “From Field Collection to Spatial Analysis: Data in the CHALLINEQ Project” (2 hours), during the Winter School of Social Sciences at the Institut Français de Pondicherry, November 29, 2022.

2021: “Introduction to R Programming Applications in the Social Sciences” (3 hours), Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, session for PhD students, August 9, 2021.

2020: “COVID-19 and Metropolises in Emerging Countries: At the Intersection of the Urban and the Health Spheres. The Case of Delhi” (2 hours), Ecole d’Urbanisme de Paris, session for the Environmental Controversies Analysis course, M2 Urban Environments program, December 17, 2020.

Peer-reviewed articles

• Benkimoun, S. (2022). Mobility, capital and COVID-19: Determinants of a spatially differentiated experience in the lockdown-ed Delhi region, South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal (SAMAJ).
  https://journals.openedition.org/samaj/8421 
• Benkimoun, S., Atyame, C., Haramboure, M., Degenne, P., Thébault, H., Dehecq, J. S., & Tran, A. (2021). Dynamic mapping of dengue basic reproduction number. Results in Physics, 29, 104687. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211379721007683 
• Grimaud, Y., Tran, A., Benkimoun, S., Boucher, F., Esnault, O., Cêtre-Sossah, C., … & Guis, H. (2021). Spatio-temporal modelling of Culicoides Latreille (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) populations on Reunion Island (Indian Ocean). Parasites & vectors, 14(1), 1-16 https://parasitesandvectors.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13071-021-04780-9
• Telle, O., Nikolay, B., Kumar, V., Benkimoun, S., Pal, R., Nagpal, B. N., & Paul, R. E. (2021). Social and environmental risk factors for dengue in Delhi city: A retrospective study. PLoS neglected tropical diseases, 15(2), e0009024. https://journals.plos.org/plosntds/article?id=10.1371/journal.pntd.0009024

Book Chapter

• Paul, R., Telle, O., & Benkimoun, S. (2022). Integrating Social Sciences to Mitigate Against Covid. In Socio-Life Science and the COVID-19 Outbreak (pp. 47-71). Springer, Singapore. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-16-5727-6_3

General interest articles

• Benkimoun, S., Denis, E., Chalonge, L., Telle, O., & Paul, R. (2020). Évolution des mobilités et diffusion du Covid-19 en France: ce que les données Facebook dévoilent. The conversation, 18.https://theconversation.com/evolution-des-mobilites-et-diffusion-du-covid-19-en-france-ce-que-les-donnees-facebook-devoilent-137846.
• Denis, E., Telle, O., Benkimoun, S., Mukhopadhyay, P., & Nath, S. (2020). Mapping the lockdown effects in India: how geographers can contribute to tackle Covid-19 diffusion. The Conversation. https://theconversation.com/mapping-the-lockdown-effects-in-india-how-geographers-can-contribute-to-tackle-covid-19-diffusion-136323

International Conferences

• “Making the intangible tangible, and the tangible intangible: how geospatial data reshapes our understanding of urban mobility flows in Delhi”, Urban ARC 2023: Cities in Flux, Indian Institute of Human Settlement, January 14, 2023.
• “Anatomy of urban voids in the Delhi metropolitan area”, Shifting Landscapes Conference, London School of Economics, Department of Geography, June 16-17, 2022. (with Hugo Ribadeau-Dumas)
• “How geospatial data is shaping the notion of mobility: The example of Facebook data, applied to health geography”, International conference: “Geography and the Digital: Intersections and Conflations”, Department Of Geography, University Of Delhi, May 25, 2022.
• “Automatized urban area detection at fine scale and population allocation: toward a better understanding of urban India”, International Land-Use Symposium, Paris, December 4, 2019 (poster presentation).

Seminars and Workshops

• “Circulation and spatiality of infectious diseases: geographical models applied to Réunion and India”, seminar “History, social sciences, and health: sources, objects, and methods”, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, October 19, 2023.
• “The city without the city? Anatomy of urban voids in the Delhi metropolitan region”, CPR-CSH Urban Workshop, November 29, 2022. (with Hugo Ribadeau-Dumas)
• “Mobility, capital, and COVID-19: Determinants of a spatially differentiated experience in the lockdown-ed Delhi region”, CSH Workshop, May 30, 2022.
• “At the intersection of the urban and the health: Delhi facing epidemics”, Monthly Seminar of the P.A.R.I.S. team (UMR Géographie-Cités), September 17, 2021.
• “Urban governance at the crossroads of epidemics: challenges in the redefinition of the city. The case of Delhi (India)”, Doctoral Workshop, Condorcet Campus, June 9, 2021.
• “Comparative perspective of human mobilities and COVID-19 diffusion nexus: what is social media data saying?”, Maison Franco-Japonaise UMIFRE 19, The COVID-19 Conference “Outbreak and Public Health Issues: an Interdisciplinary Approach”, December 16, 2020. (with Olivier Telle and Richard Paul)
• “Human and virus mobility during COVID: what reciprocal relationships?”, Monthly Seminar of the P.A.R.I.S. Laboratory (UMR Géographie-Cités), June 26, 2020. (with Eric Denis, Olivier Telle, and Richard Paul)
• “When diseases reinvent urban space”, CSH Occasional Seminar Series, February 18, 2020.
• “Internal migration in India: Evidence and perceptions on how people are moving”, CSH-CPR Urban Workshop #120, January 23, 2020. (with Olivier Telle)