Daniel Meier has held the GMO Borders Junior Professorship in Political Science at Sciences Po Grenoble - UGA since September 1, 2024. He is also a researcher at the Cerdap2 laboratory.
His research, carried out within Axis 2 of the "Territoire(s), frontières et globalisation des risques" laboratory, focuses on the geopolitics of borders in the Middle East, with a particular emphasis on issues of conflict and how they relate to identities.
Before joining Sciences Po Grenoble, Daniel Meier received several grants from the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) as part of his postdoc on "Borderlands and Militants in South Lebanon" at Saint Joseph's University, Beirut, then as a Senior Associate Member at Oxford (St Antony's College). He has also taught at the Global Studies Institute of the University of Geneva and has been a visiting professor at the Universities of Turin, Venice and Quebec. He has also been a visiting researcher at the Universities of Queen's (Belfast), Bergamo and Cagliari.
He defended his doctoral thesis in political sociology at the Graduate Institute of the University of Geneva (2006). His thesis, which examined the Lebanese national question in the light of Lebanese-Palestinian relations, laid the foundations for a reflection on identity-based borders, an issue that was subsequently extended to territorial and border spaces in the Middle East region.