Max-Valentin Robert

Max-Valentin Robert received his Ph.D. in political science in January 2021 at Sciences Po Grenoble (UMR Pacte, France), where he also worked as a Temporary Lecturer and Research Assistant (Attaché Temporaire d’Enseignement et de Recherche – ATER). His thesis is entitled: Democrats in diversity? Cultural heterogeneity, electoral mobilizations of minority populations and political-institutional transformations in Muslim societies. In 2020-2021, he collaborated with the ERC-funded PRIME Youth Project (Istanbul Bilgi University). Then, between August 2022 and June 2023, he worked as a research fellow at the University of Nottingham (School of Politics and International Relations), and participated in the Digital Society Project (DSP). Max-Valentin Robert has recently co-published (with William T. Daniel, Elise Frelin and Laurence Rowley-Abel): “Individual drivers of toxicity in radical right-wing populist legislative campaigns” (West European Politics, 2024). He currently works as a postdoctoral researcher at the ESPOL (European School of Political and Social Sciences) and is involved in the Horizon Europe project “ACTEU – Towards a new era of representative democracy – Activating European citizens’ trust in times of crises and polarization”.

Languages spoken : French, English, Spanish, Turkish