The 2025 KOCH Prize of the Saint-Thomas Chapter awarded to Antoine Ebeling

BETA congratulates Antoine Ebeling, PhD in Economics, who was awarded the 2025 Christophe Guillaume Koch Prize by the Chapter of Saint Thomas during an official ceremony on Wednesday 12 November 2025, as part of its policy to support academic research. This prize specifically rewards high-quality academic work in the fields of law, economics and politics.

On 26 November 2024, Antoine Ebeling defended his thesis entitled ‘Climate change and European intervention’, supervised by Amélie Barbier-Gauchard (BETA, Strasbourg) and Samuel Ligonnière (University of Evry Paris-Saclay). The thesis had already been awarded the 2025 Thesis Prize by the Augustin Cournot Doctoral School at the University of Strasbourg.

Since 1 September 2025, Antoine Ebeling has been a MAKErS postdoctoral researcher. He has been recruited for a two-year period to continue the postdoctoral project “Une Union, plusieurs récits climatiques ? Analyse économique et textuelle de la communication climatique européenne” (‘One Union, multiple climate narratives? Economic and textual analysis of European climate communication’).

This project analyses how major European institutions communicate on climate issues. At the intersection of political economy, textual analysis and political science, it aims to understand how these institutions formulate, legitimise and prioritise climate issues through their official discourse. Using advanced quantitative techniques (text mining, dynamic topic modelling, break detection), the project will study climate-related discursive trajectories, their framing and their links with European political and economic cycles.