Professor



nathalie.brack@ulb.be
+32 (0)2 650 36 77
  

Adresse courrier :
ULB - Campus du Solbosch
Avenue F.D. Roosevelt, 50 - CP 124
1050 Bruxelles

Adresse visiteur :
Bâtiment S, 11è étage - Bureau : S11.115
Avenue Jeanne, 44
1050 Bruxelles
 

 

Bio


I am Professor of Political Science at ULB, a researcher at CEVIPOL, and co-editor of the Journal of European Integration.

I received my PhD from ULB in 2013. My dissertation examined the strategies of Eurosceptic Members of the European Parliament and received the 2015 Xavier Mabille Prize, awarded by the Belgian Francophone Political Science Association (ABSP) for the best doctoral dissertation in political science. I subsequently held a postdoctoral fellowship at St Antony’s College, University of Oxford, followed by an FNRS-funded postdoctoral fellowship at ULB. My postdoctoral research focused on the links between elected representatives and citizens in Europe.

Over the past decade, I have held visiting professorships at the University of Lausanne, UCL, Sciences Po Bordeaux, and Paris-Panthéon-Assas University.

I teach European studies and comparative politics. I am currently the Principal Investigator of Post-truth Politics and Political Parties, an FNRS-funded research project examining politicians’ use of conspiratorial discourse in Europe. I am also involved, alongside Jean-Benoit Pilet, in an ARC-funded project on fact-based policymaking, as well as in Polevpop, an ERC-funded research project coordinated by the University of Antwerp that examines politicians’ perceptions of public opinion.

 

CV

  • 2026: Professor, ULB
  • 2026: Vice-president of the politics department, ULB
  • 2024 : Co-Editor, Journal of European Integration
  • 2023 – 2027 : Academic Responsible for Admissions, Masters in Political Science, ULB
  • 2023-2024 : Visiting Professor, University Panthéon-Assas, Paris, France
  • 2021 – 2026 : Associate Professor, ULB
  • 2020 – 2026: Member of the Steering Committee of the ECPR Standing Group on the EU
  • 2017-2021 : Assistant Professor, ULB
  • 2017-2018 : Visiting Professor, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
  • 2016 : Visiting Researcher, Sciences Po Bordeaux, France
  • 2015 : Visiting Fellow, University of Antwerp (M2P), Belgium
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Areas of research

  • Euroscepticism
  • European Institutions
  • Radical right
  • Populism
  • Legislative studies
  • European Union legitimacy
  • European elections
  • Conspiracy theories and political parties
  • Anti-science attitudes
 
Teaching

POLID511 - Institutions and Political Representation

POLID323 – Introduction to EU politics

POLID456 - Interest Representation in the EU

POLIO503 - Elections, représentations et partis politiques dans l'UE

Research

My research focuses on four main areas.

First, I am interested in Euroscepticism and radical parties in Europe. My research examines Eurosceptic Members of the European Parliament and their opposition to European integration, as well as the formation of Eurosceptic and extremist groups, networks, and parties at the supranational level.

Second, I am the Principal Investigator of an FNRS-funded research project examining the role of political parties in post-truth politics. In this context, I focus on disinformation, conspiracy theories, and the role of political parties in their dissemination, particularly through an analysis of their activities on social media platforms such as Twitter and Facebook.

Third, I am interested in political representation, particularly the linkages between citizens and their representatives, as well as competing understandings of political representation. I am involved in the Polevpop project, which examines congruence between elected representatives and public opinion, drawing on interviews with members of parliament in 13 countries.

Finally, I research the challenges facing liberal democracy, with a particular focus on the contestation of epistemic authority, including the politicisation of science, competing truth claims, and challenges to established forms of expertise.

Publications

Nathalie Brack (2018), Opposing Europe in the European Parliament: Rebels and Radicals in the Chamber, Palgrave MacMillan, https://link.springer.com/book/10.1057/978-1-137-60201-5

Marczyński, P., & Brack, N. (2026). The few, the loud: platform-mediated articulation of conspiratorial discourse by political elites on X and Facebook. Information, Communication & Society, 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2026.2733516

Brack, Nathalie, and Ramona Coman, ‘Dissensus over Liberal Democracy in Europe: How Does It Shape Policies and Polity?’, European Political Science, 24 (2025), 405–16 http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/s41304-025-00546-4

Brack, N., & Marié, A. (2024). From fringe to front? Assessing the voting influence of the radical right in the European Parliament. European Union Politics, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/14651165241268127

 

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Updated on October 21, 2026