Sabine Weiland

Sabine Weiland is Associate Professor of Political Science at the Catholic University of Lille, where she is affiliated with the European School of Political and Social Sciences (ESPOL). She serves as the Director of the ESPOL-LAB Research Centre for European and International Politics, and also coordinates the ESPOL research cluster on “Societal Transformation and Sustainability”.

Sabine is currently Pricipal Investigator of 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 examines the transformation of urban food systems in European cities and and their contribution to the objectives of the European Green Deal.

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