Mathilde Maurel is Professor of Economics, Director of Research at Centre National de Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne (CES), Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. She is also a senior researcher at FERDI and a member of Academia Europaea. Her work covers economic and societal issues, including EU enlargement, environmental policies, and infrastructure such as decentralized electricity, new media and political behaviors. Maurel has been published in leading academic journals.