I am an associate professor at the ‘Institut de sciences politiques Louvain-Europe’ and the ‘Institut d’études européennes’ at the UCLouvain (Louvain-la-Neuve), where I teach courses on European Union politics and institutions. Before joining the UCLouvain in 2010, I was a Research Fellow of the Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research (FWO) at the University of Leuven, where I graduated in 2008.

As a guest professor, I am also teaching in programmes at the ‘Faculté Libre de Droit‘ (University of Lille) and at the ‘Institute for International and European Policy‘ (University of Leuven).

My research interests include the EU’s external relations in former ‘first pillar’ policy areas (mainly environment), inter- and intra-institutional relations in the EU, international environmental politics, principal-agent modeling, and configurational comparative research methods (such as QCA).

My work has appeared in several academic journals, including Journal of European Public Policy, International Environmental Agreements, Environmental Policy and Governance, Perspectives on European Politics and Society, and Journal of European Integration. I am the author of the book ‘The EU as International Environmental Negotiator’ (Ashgate, 2011), which studies internal EU decision-making processes in the context of multilateral environmental negotiations.