Thibaud Boncourt is Professor of Political Science at Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3 and Junior Fellow at the Institut Universitaire de France (IUF). He also co-leads the programme “Science, knowledge, and academic freedom” as part of the France-Quebec Research Chair on Contemporary Issues in Freedom of Expression. He earned his Ph.D. from Sciences Po Bordeaux in 2011 and has held research fellowships at the European University Institute, the Université libre de Bruxelles and the University of Cambridge. He also served as a Professor at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne for five years. His current research focuses on the politics of truth and academic freedom.