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Carreer

I have been Professor of Political Science at the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) since 2006. I teach both in the Department of Politics and at the Institute for European Studies.
I am a researcher at the Centre d’Etude de la Vie Politique (CEVIPOL)

ADMINISTRATIVE POSITIONS
I am Director of political research at the Institute of European Studies (2007-) and President for the Doctoral School in European Studies for French-speaking Belgium, National Fund for Scientific Research (2007-).

SCIENTIFIC FUNCTIONS
- Coordinator of the project RelEP « Religion at the European Parliament » (http://www.releur.eu/index.html)
- member of RECON (“Reconstituting Democracy in Europe”, www.reconproject.eu European network of excellence), 2007-2011
- member of the editorial committee of the journal "Politique européenne"
- member of the editorial committee of the collection "Government and the European Union" by Routledge (2010…)

INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIONS

I was visiting professor at the Universities of Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso, 2006), Bucharest (Romania, 2007), Kobe (Japan, 2008), Fudan, Shanghai (China, 2009); Paris VI, Celsa (France, 2010).
Senior Associate Member at Saint Anthony’s College, Centre for European Studies, Oxford University (November 2009);
Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, (October 2010-January 2011)

Previously, I was Lecturer in Political Science at FUCAM, Mons, Belgium (2004-2006); Research Fellow at the University of Stirling (UK) and CIDEL (“Citizenship and Democratic Legitimacy in Europe” network , 5th FPR); Lecturer (2003-2004) at the Institute of Political Studies, Strasbourg, France; Lecturer (2000-2001) at Pantheon-Sorbonne University, Versailles-Saint-Quentin and University and University Panthéon Assas. I started my scientific career as a PhD research fellow (1997-2000) at Panthéon-Sorbonne University.
I spent ten months (1996-1997) at the Service d’Information et de Relations Publiques (SIRPA) of the French Ministry of Defence as an advisor in political communication during my military service. I worked for short periods as a journalist for French newspapers and as a political consultant for Euro-RSCG.

Interests

- Symbolic dimensions of politics
- European Union
- European identity
- legitimization of political orders
- Politics and religion
-> Project "Religion at the European Parliament" (RelEP, see here: http://www.releur.eu/index.html)