Romain Tiquet holds a PhD from Humboldt University in Berlin. Since 2019, he has been a CNRS researcher (section 35) at the Institut des Mondes Africains. After working on the history of law enforcement in Burkina Faso, his thesis focused on labor mobilization in (post)colonial Senegal. Since 2019, he has been interested in the history of madness in West Africa and is leading the ERC project : https://madaf.hypotheses.org/

Starting in January 2026, he will be hosted at CEFRES, in collaboration with Slovak Africanist and historian Silvestr Trnovec, to develop a new project entitled “Sans colonies, mais toujours colonialiste ? Histoire (tchéco)slovaque et empire colonial français en Afrique, XVIIIe siècle–début du XXe siècle”. This project is being implemented as part of the TANDEM SAV–CNRS 2026-2027 program and explores the historical links between the Czechoslovak space and the French colonial empire in Africa.