Céline Desmarais is a professor at the Haute École d'Ingénierie et de Gestion du Canton de Vaud, part of the University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Western Switzerland.

Her research focuses on new managerial practices and emerging ways of working in contemporary organizations. She has conducted numerous studies and published academic articles on topics such as the role of managers, human resources in public organizations and public service motivation, the specificity of managerial work in the public sector, work discussion spaces, the autonomy/control dialectic in agile organizations, perceptions of remote work, and the collective regulation of emotions within teams.

Additionally, she develops projects aimed at bridging the gap between scientific knowledge and the concrete needs of organizations. In this regard, she is a founding member of La Fabrique de l'Agilité, a network of around one hundred Swiss companies interested in these topics.

She has also served as Vice-President of Université Savoie Mont Blanc in the 2000s, Vice-President of the scientific association AIRMAP, and Associate Editor of the journal Gestion et Management Public.