Damien Simonneau, PhD in Political Science, is a lecturer at the National Institute for Oriental Languages and Civilisations (INALCO) and an associate researcher at the Institut Convergences Migrations at the Collège de France. His research focuses on contemporary border security, particularly in the Israeli-Palestinian region. He is the author of L'obsession du mur. Politique de militarisation des frontières en Israël et aux Etats-Unis (Peter Lang, 2020).