Marie is a doctoral researcher in International Relations at the Chair in Geopolitics of Risk (UMR 8241, ED 540, ENS-PSL) and Centre for the Study of War and Violence (ULiège), working under the supervision of J. Peter Burgess and Julien Pomarède.
She holds degrees in Asian Studies from SOAS University of London (BA), International Security from Sciences Po Paris (MA) and Politics from New York University (MA). Prior to her PhD, she gained research and policy experience in South Korea, France and Belgium, including at the Jeju Peace Institute, the German Marshall Fund of the United States and the International Crisis Group.
Her current research, supported by a FRESH scholarship from the F.R.S.-FNRS, lies at the intersection of political geography and critical security studies, with a particular focus on the Indo-Pacific region.
She is an Associate at the Asia Center of Harvard University and will soon join the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford as a Visiting Scholar. In 2025, she was a Fulbright Scholar at Columbia University.
Her doctoral dissertation examines the Indo-Pacific as both a strategic and an epistemic formation. It asks how regional space is imagined, institutionalised and contested with particular attention to Indonesian and South Korean elite perspectives. More broadly, she is interested in how the historical legacies of power politics, security practices, material politics and competing knowledge systems shape regional practices in Asia. Her wider research engages questions of geopolitics, knowledge production and regional ordering, as well as the place of representations of infrastructure and nature in contemporary international politics.
Her current publication projects include work on Materiality and Foreign Policy Analysis and on the development of a broader research agenda on Blue Politics. Alongside her doctoral work, she contributes to academic and policy-oriented projects on foreign policy, ASEAN regionalism and European approaches to the Indo-Pacific.

Project : Assembling the Indo-Pacific: Geopolitical Genealogies, Epistemic Infrastructures, and the Production of Regional Space in Indonesian and South Korean Elite Perspectives