François Mabille is an associate research fellow at IRIS, where he leads the Geopolitical Observatory of Religion. He is a professor of political science (international relations), a specialist in religious actors in international relations and in particular in pontifical diplomacy. He is an associate researcher at IRIS, where he directs the Geopolitical Observatory of Religion.

His research also incorporates a strong prospective dimension since his collaboration with the Peace and Conflict Department of Uppsala University and with the Copenhagen Institute of Future Studies.

Since 2013, François Mabille has been a statutory researcher at the Religions, Societies, Secularism Group (EPHE – CNRS), researcher at LIPHA (Paris Est University) and associate researcher at UQAM (Raoul-Dandurand Chair) in Montreal (Canada). From 2015 to 2017, he was also director of the International Network for Studies on Radicalization and Religious Risk.