Joëlle Salomon Cavin

Geneva

Joëlle Salomon Cavin is a geographer and professor at the Institute of Geography and Sustainability at the University of Lausanne. Her research and teaching focus on environmental geography and on relationships between cities and nature(s). In 2025, she founded the SBU (Sales Bestioles Urbaines) research group, which aims to better understand how unloved animals – such as rats, pigeons, bedbugs, fish parasites, and others – inhabit cities, and to study the full range of relationships that develop between these animals and human within the urban environment.