Sabine Weiland

Sabine Weiland is Associate Professor of Political Science at the Catholic University of Lille, affiliated with the European School of Political and Social Sciences (ESPOL). From 2018 to 2023, she has been the Director of the ESPOL-LAB Research Centre for European and International Politics. To date, she still coordinates the ESPOL research cluster on “Politics of the Anthropocene”.

Sabine is currently the PI in the Horizon Europe project DEMETRA (“Democratic Governance, Environmental and Climate Challenges, and Societal Transformation: Deliberation, Inclusiveness, and Citizen Empowerment for Sustainable Food Systems”). The project analyses the transformation of urban food systems in European cities and its contribution to achieving the goals of the European Green Deal.

Sabine holds a PhD in social sciences from the University of Göttingen, Germany. She participated in various German, European and international research projects in the field of environmental and sustainability governance, policy assessment, and science-policy interface. Before her appointment at the Catholic University of Lille she was working at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, Leipzig, Freie Universität Berlin, Catholic University Louvain, and IDDRI/Sciences-Po Paris.