Maxime Polleri is an assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at Université Laval, in Quebec City, Canada. As an anthropologist, he studies the governance of nuclear catastrophes, with a focus on the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster. Polleri is also a Network Affiliate at the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University, where he was previously a MacArthur Nuclear Security fellow. He is also a member of MITATE Lab, an international research program on Fukushima issues.