Sébastien Vannier

Sébastien Vannier was a Fellow at the RIFS from January to June 2024. His Fellowship was funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) as part of the discourse platform #FactoryWissKomm. At the RIFS, Vannier created the podcast series „Wissenschaft und Politik im Gespräch" (Science and Politics in Conversation), in which politicians engage in conversation with researchers about scientific findings and their use in political decision-making.

Vannier has been a Political Communication and Science Dialogue Officer at Helmholtz KLIMA since November 2024. Before that, he was 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.

He has 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).