Lukas AUBIN, PhD

Lukas Aubin is a Senior Research Fellow at IRIS, in charge of the Sport and geopolitics programme,specializing in the geopolitics of sport. Doctor of Slavic Studies (University of Paris Nanterre – University of Paris Lumières), holder of a double Franco- Russian Master’s degree in geopolitics of the post-Soviet space at the Russian State University of Human Sciences (RGGU) (Moscow, Russia) and at the French Institute of Geopolitics (IFG) of the University of Paris 8 (Paris, France), he defended a thesis entitled “The Sportokratura in Russia: governing through sport in the era of Vladimir Poutine, 2000 -2020”, the book adaptation of which was published by Bréal in May 2021. His research focuses mainly on the new geopolitical issues of Russia and sport. He regularly speaks at conferences and seminars on these issues, as well as in various media. He has taught history and geopolitics at the Universities of Paris-Nanterre, Versailles Saint-Quentin en Yvelines, and Rennes 2.