Salimata DIALLO

Education

• PhD Candidate in Science and Technology Studies (STS), Sorbonne University (since October 2025)

• Master’s Degree in Political Science -Social Sciences of Politics, Sciences Po Strasbourg (2025)

• Master’s Degree in Science and Society: Epistemology, History of Science and Technology, University of Strasbourg (2024)

• Bachelor’s Degree in Applied Sociology of Development, Catholic University of West Africa (UCAO), Burkina Faso (2022)

• Baccalauréat in Experimental Sciences (Biology-Chemistry), Lycée Sacré-Cœur, Bamako, Mali (2019)

Research interests

• Sociology of science and controversy studies

• Circulation and valorization of scientific knowledge

• Promises and limits of biomedical and environmental innovation

• Institutional and political dynamics of research

Current research projects

• PhD Thesis: Scientific promises and the social circulation of a “molecule of the year”: the case of reactive nitrogen (NO).
  This project analyzes the scientific trajectories, uses, and representations of nitric oxide, while also examining its circulation across laboratories, industry, regulation, and civil society.