Benoit Pouget is Associate Professor in Modern History at Aix-Marseille University and at Sciences Po Aix. He is currently Associate member at Oxford Faculty of History and associate searcher at French Defence Historical Service. His research focuses on situations of extreme violence and crisis mortality (epidemics, wars, disasters) as well as on the history of military medicine and emergency responses. Primarily focused of the the Euro-Mediterranean area, his works now develop toward Middle-Eastern, African & East Asian contexts.