Florence Graezer Bideau is Senior Scientist and Senior Lecturer at the College of Humanities and at the School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, where she has been employed since 2009. She leads the Heritage, Anthropology and Technologies Research Group (HAT), formerly known as Heritage, Culture and the City, focusing on the role of social actors in heritage making. She received her doctoral degree in History and Civilization from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris. Between 2015 and 2022, she was also a visiting professor at the Department of Architecture and Design, Politecnico di Torino, Italy. Contributing to the field of critical heritage studies, her work engages with the complex interplay between culture and power through a comparative perspective. She investigates cultural policies, heritage management and governance, dynamics of resistance, and urban and territorial development, examining these issues from both top-down and bottom-up perspectives in China, Malaysia and Switzerland. By studying the relationship between the state and its cultural institutions and ambitions, she focuses on their deep connection to identity, memory, affect, and governmentality issues.