Dr. Mia Mikic is a trade economist with a keen interest in sustainable development and with a proven track record and experience in academia and international civil service. She coordinated ARTNeT from 2009 to 2021. She also served as a Director, Trade, Investment and innovation Division in United Nations ESCAP. Prior to her UN tenure, she was Head of the Department of Economic Theory, Professor of International Economics and Director of Economic and Business International Program at the (...)

Serge Morand is a research director at the CNRS (Institut des sciences de l’évolution de Montpellier) and an associate researcher at CIRAD (ASTRE), he is based in Thailand at the Faculty of Veterinary Technology at Kasetsart University, and is also a visiting professor at the Faculty of Tropical Medicine at Mahidol University in Bangkok. An ecologist and field parasitologist, he analyses the role of biodiversity in the health and well-being of humans and (...)

Yukti MUKDAWIJITRA received his PhD. in anthropology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2007. He is an assistant professor at Faculty of Sociology and Anthropology, Thammasat University, Thailand. His interests are linguistic anthropology, ethnicity, political anthropology, and digital anthropology. His researches cover areas of both Vietnam and Thailand. He has published works in Thai, English, and Vietnamese. His is major publications are, for example, Reading Community Culture : (...)

Dr. Gregor Muller is a Swiss historian, an Archivist with the National Archives of Cambodia, and a Delegate of the International Committee of the Red Cross, with a PhD in History at the University of Zurich. He is the author of Colonial Cambodia’s “Bad Frenchmen” : The Rise of French Rule and the Life of Thomas Caraman (1840-87), Routledge : London and New York, 2006. In 2005, answering a special Pierre Le Roux’ request and funded by the Spanish Foundation ANESVAD, he undertook specialized (...)

Dr. Nawal Kamel is the Director of the AEMI Initiative, at the ASEAN Studies Center, and a Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Economics, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok. Until 2012, she was a Director at the World Bank, in Washington, D.C., a position she had held since 1994. During her career, Nawal has also served at the Deputy Ministerial level in the Department of Natural Resources, Canada, working closely with the Minister to advise on decisions regarding his portfolio of energy, (...)

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In 2014, Rémi NGUYEN has been awarded a Ph.D Contract with International mobility at CNRS (French National Centre for Scientific Research) for three years with the support of CREDIMI in Dijon (France) and IRASEC. During his research, he created the website Myanmar Law Library for the access and knowledge of Myanmar Law.
In 2018, after his Ph.D in Private Law, Rémi Nguyen established his own law firm called MLR Legal Consultants in Yangon, Myanmar to assist companies (...)

Postdoctoral Fieldwork Research Grant in Singapore Awardee
Eka Ningtyas is a historian of modern Indonesia, specializing in political and intellectual history. She holds a PhD in History from INALCO (Paris, 2025), where she examined the articulation of Javanism in Indonesian political, religious, and literary discourse.
As the awardee of the IRASEC-IFS Postdoctoral Fieldwork Fellowship 2025-2026 in Singapore, she is developing a comparative project on the genealogy of decolonial knowledge (...)

Atlas Scholarships 2026 Awardee
Armelle Ninnin is an architect and urban planner with a Ph.D. in Urban Planning ; she is an associate member of the IPRAUS laboratory (Paris Institute for Research in Architecture, Urban Planning, and Society). Her doctoral research analyzes the tensions between heritage preservation and urban development in the context of the inscription of historic cities in Southeast Asia on the UNESCO World Heritage List. By intersecting the fields of urban geography and (...)

Gwenaël Njoto-Feillard holds a PhD in political science from the Institut d’études politiques de Paris (Sciences Po) and the Centre for International Research and Studies (CERI), France. A specialist on Islam in Indonesia, he is currently a Visiting Fellow at the Institute of South-East Asian Studies (ISEAS) in Singapore, as well as being an Associate Fellow at the Center for Southeast Asia in Paris (CNRS-EHESS) and at the Institute of East Asian Studies (IAO, CNRS) in Lyon, France. (...)

2020 Fieldwork Scholarship Awardee
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Mr. Andar NUBOWO is a doctoral student in philosophy and epistemology at the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon. Under the supervision of Mr. Makram Abbes and Mr. Rémy Madinier, his thesis is on "The genesis of a current of Islam of the just middle : a sociohistory of the currents of Indonesian progressive Islam". Associate Research Fellow at the S Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University, (...)