Belgium – FEPS Young Academic Network

Mathieu Blondeel

Elena Gil — Fri, 24 May 2024 17:18:46 +0000

Dr Mathieu Blondeel is Assistant Professor of Global Energy and
Climate Politics in the Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM),
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He specialises in the geopolitics of the
energy transition and the political economy of the oil and gas industry.

Unai Gómez-Hernández

Caitlin.Reder — Wed, 03 Jan 2024 15:48:28 +0000

Unai Gómez-Hernández is a joint PhD candidate at the University of Edinburgh and KU Leuven. His work focuses on how European radical right populist parties influence the EU’s external action vis-à-vis China. He is member of the EPRG and LINES research groups at Edinburgh and Leuven, respectively. His broader research interests deal with political parties, European external action, EU-China relations, and the Liberal International Order. Before embarking upon the PhD journey, he worked in the private sector, for the Basque Environmental Cluster in Bilbao, and in the public sector, as an advisor to the Delegate of the Basque Country in Brussels. He holds a BSc in Political Science (University of the Basque Country), BSc in International Relations (London School of Economics and Political Science), and a MA in International Relations and Diplomacy of the EU (College of Europe, Bruges Campus). On his free time, Unai enjoys reading, debating politics with friends, and playing League of Legends.

Alvaro Oleart

OlivierDegandt — Mon, 08 Feb 2021 13:42:37 +0000

Alvaro Oleart is a post-doctoral researcher at the at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences of Maastricht University, and a scientific collaborator at the Université Libre de Bruxelles. He is the author of the book Framing TTIP in the European public spheres: Towards an Empowering Dissensus for EU integration (2021), published by the series Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology. His fields of interest are the European public sphere, the role of civil society in the EU policy-making, EU trade policy, populism and democracy in Europe, and the analysis of discourse and narratives.

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