She is a geographer specializing in urban and social geography. Her research focuses on issues of home, housing, residential trajectories, demolition, and urban planning policies. She earned her PhD in Geography and Urban Planning from Lyon 2 Lumière University in 2024. Since then, she has held several research fellowships, including at the Geography Department at the University of Łódź and the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography in Leipzig (Germany) where she is part of the project Occupied and Erased. Stories of Ukraine's Lost Homes.

In recent months, her research has focused on the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine, where she examines the urban planning and housing policies implemented by the Russian occupying administration, including the confiscation of housing property. Her work combines analysis of legal frameworks, mapping of the occupation, and the lived experiences of people displaced from these territories.

During her residency at the Center for Urban History, Guénola Inizan will continue her study of housing property seizures in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine. Through interviews, she will document the various forms of response and resistance that have emerged in reaction to these seizures. She will also dedicate part of her residence to analyzing archival and documentary materials concerning several cities currently under temporary occupation.