Michel Dubois is a Senior Research Fellow at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and Director of the Groupe d’Étude des Méthodes de l’Analyse Sociologique de la Sorbonne (GEMASS), a joint research unit of Sorbonne University and the CNRS. He holds a PhD in Sociology from Sorbonne University and an Habilitation à diriger des recherches in Sociology.

Since September 2025, he has served as Director of the French Office for Scientific Integrity (OFIS). Since 2019, he has also directed the social sciences lab Groupe d’Étude des Méthodes de l’Analyse Sociologique de la Sorbonne (GEMASS). Between 2016 and 2019, he conducted his research in the United States as Deputy Director of a CNRS international research unit, first in Los Angeles and later in Washington, DC. During this period, he was also a visiting scholar at UCLA’s Institute for Society and Genetics and at the School of Medicine at George Washington University (GWU). He has held significant editorial responsibilities, including serving as Director of the Revue française de sociologie. He is regularly involved in national and European scientific advisory boards and expert committees, contributing to research governance, evaluation, and science policy.

Michel Dubois’s research explores the evolving relationship between science and society. His work focuses on transformations in the public image of science and technology, the articulation between social and biological explanations – particularly in environmental epigenetics – and the mechanisms through which scientific knowledge is corrected. He also works extensively on research ethics, scientific integrity, and the social foundations of public trust in science.