Professor at Gustave Eiffel University in Paris and currently a member of the New Hamburg Institute in Germany, she is a specialist in political philosophy and applied ethics (bioethics, environmental philosophy and animal ethics).

She is the author of a dozen books, most of which have been translated into other languages. She received the Günther Anders Prize in Critical Thought in February 2020 for the whole of her work. Her latest publication is Les Lumières à l'âge du vivant (Seuil, 2021).