Sébastien Vannier is Fellow at the RIFS from January to May 2024. His Fellowship is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) as part of the discourse platform #FactoryWissKomm.

He is Head of Communications at the Centre Marc Bloch, Franco-German Research Institute for Social Sciences in Berlin. He writes regularly for the French newspaper Ouest-France and was Head of the Berlin redaction from the European online magazine cafebabel.com. He completed internships at the German Parliament, for the TV channel ARTE and for the Franco-German Youth Office. He graduated from Sciences Po Rennes and the KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt with a MA in Political Sciences.

Vannier published several books, "Les Allemands" (2015) ; "Berlin, Laboratoire d'innovations" (2016) and co-edited the publications "Berlin, aujourd'hui" (2017) and "La politique climatique allemande - comment rattraper le temps perdu ?" (2022).