Sandrine Lambert is affiliated with the Ethnography Lab, the Milieux Institute for Arts, Culture, and Technology at Concordia University, as well as the CRITIC research group on the commons. Her research explores the relationship between democracy and technology, with a particular focus on citizen participation, sociotechnical imaginaries, and infrastructural challenges. Her current postdoctoral project examines governance and energy issues related to a data storage center in Montreal.

Dr. Lambert earned her Ph.D. in Anthropology from Université Laval, Québec (December 2024). Her doctoral research, based on 18 months of fieldwork in Barcelona (2020–2022), investigated the Makers ecosystem, the intersections between industrial and digital manufacturing and technological and urban utopias. This work highlighted the democratic potential of citizen participation and the commons in spaces dedicated to digital fabrication (Makerspaces, FabLabs, and related environments).

In 2023, she was awarded Prix Relève-Étoile Paul-Gérin-Lajoie from the Fonds de recherche du Québec (FRQSC) for her article, “Ethnographie en période de pandémie et mobilisation des Coronavirus Makers à Barcelone : Le fleurissement des solidarités impromptues”, published in the peer-reviewed Canadian journal Anthropologica.

She has also worked on the social impacts of artificial intelligence as a research assistant with the ABEONA-ENS-OBVIA Chair in Social Justice and Artificial Intelligence (2020–2022).