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Sarah Perret joined ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ in 2023 as an Associate Professor of Political Science. She is also a research associate at King’s College London, at the ‘Laboratoire de Théorie politique’ of the CRESPPA-CNRS, and at the Chair of Geopolitics of Risk at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris where she is the principal collaborator on the ANR-PrAIrie project entitled ‘’ (2023). She is also Management Committee member for France of the international and multidisciplinary network, for which she is the co-leader of the WG1 ‘Inventory’.

Her research focuses on the effects of security policies on issues of borders, identity, and mobility, through the collection and circulation of (non)knowledge, particularly with the exponential use of digital technologies such as biometrics and artificial intelligence. She has researched naturalisation legislations, securitization of immigration law-making, and on counterterrorism policies. She is the author of Géopolitique du risque. De la possibilité du danger à l'incertitude de la menace (2022, Éditions du Cavalier Bleu) with J. P Burgess, as well as numerous articles in journals such as Geopolitics, Review of International Studies, European Journal of International Security, Big Data & Society and Études internationales.

ÌýBefore joining ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½, she was a Researcher at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris (Department of Philosophy) where she led the ANR-PrAIrie project entitled ‘’ (2023). She has also completed two post-doctorates at the War Studies Department of King's College London (2019-2023), and at ENS Paris in the Chair in Geopolitics of Risk and the Geography Department (2017-2019). She holds a PhD in Political Science from the Université Paris-Saclay, during which she was a visiting scholar at Georgetown University. She has taught at various institutions, including Université Paris-Saclay, Université Paris 2 Assas, Université Paris 8 Vincennes Saint-Denis, Georgetown University, École normale supérieure, King's College London or Sciences Po Paris.

Alongside her academic work, Sarah Perret has also been a Parliamentary Adviser to the French Assemblée Nationale, a Consultant at the World Bank, and a Ministerial Adviser.