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 coordinates ESPOL’s research cluster on “Societal Transformation and Sustainability” and co-convenes the Jean Monnet Network of Excellence TransformEU, which explores how the European Union can help shape a democratic future aligned with its goals for the green transition and digital decade. She directed the ESPOL-Lab Research Centre for European and International Politics from 2018 to 2023 and again in 2025–26.

Sabine is Principal 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”, 2024–2027). The project examines how food systems are changing in European cities and how these changes can contribute to the objectives of the European Green Deal.

She holds a PhD in Social Sciences from the University of Göttingen, Germany. Her research has involved German, European, and international projects on environmental and sustainability governance, policy assessment, and the science–policy interface. Before joining the Catholic University of Lille, she held positions at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) in Leipzig, Freie Universität Berlin, UCLouvain, and IDDRI at Sciences Po Paris.