After completing a training in geophysics, Andrée joined the Palais de la Découverte as an assistant professor. The experience of working within a science museum led her to reflect upon the cultural inscription of science itself: how it operates, the functions it fulfills, the issues at stake in its realisation. In the 1990s her research accordingly shifted to the human and social sciences. Her current work focusses on the history of popularization of science in the 20th century France mainly through a science policy perspective.