Belgium
Serge Deruette is full professor at the University of Mons (UMONS, Belgium) where he chairs the Service des sciences politiques. He holds a PhD in Political Science from the Free University of Brussels (ULB) and teaches History of Political Thought, Political Doctrines and Ideas, Political Parties, Political Sociology and Historical Criticism. His research focuses on political and philosophical ideas, mainly those of Jean Meslier, Eighteenth century and utopian thought; political and social history of Belgium and its current social and political events.
Lieven De Winter is senior professor at the Université Catholique de Louvain. He obtained his PhD "The Belgian Legislator" for the European University Institute. His research interests include (the comparative analysis of) coalition formation, party and cabinet government, parliament, political parties and elites, territorial identities and community conflicts, and electoral behaviour at the regional, national and European elections.
Audrey Vandeleene is a senior researcher and lecturer at the Department of Political Science of Université libre de Bruxelles and associated to Ghent University. She graduated from UCLouvain, Belgium and was postdoctoral researcher at Lund University (Sweden) and Ghent University (Belgium). Her research interests cover party politics, intra-party democracy, electoral systems, representation, women-in-politics, and federalism. Some of her works were published in Electoral Studies, Party Politics, European Journal of Politics and Gender, Representation, American Behavioral Scientist or Frontiers in Political Science. She was co-editor of the Palgrave Macmillan book “Candidates, Parties and Voters in the Belgian Partitocracy” (2019).
Pierre Baudewyns is Associate Professor at the Institute of Political Science of Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain) since 2010. He holds a degree in history and political science and a PhD in political science from the Université catholique de Louvain. His main fields of research are political behaviors, elections, mas and elites. He has also conducted the Belgian National Election Study for the French-Speaking part of the country since 1997.