Professor of political science

Min Reuchamps is professor of political science at UCLouvain. His teaching and research focuses on federalism and multi-level governance, democracy and its transformations and innovations, participatory and deliberative methods as well as the relations between language and politics, and in particular the role of metaphors in political discourse.

Professor of sociolinguistics

Philippe Hambye is professor of French linguistics at UCLouvain. By taking a critical sociological approach, his research focuses on sociolinguistic questions (linguistic ideologies in the French-speaking world, on language practices in schools, language policies) and discourse analysis (political and media discourse legitimizing inequalities in status and power).

Data manager

Eva Rolin is a part-time research assistant for the Cental where she participates in various projects such as Besocial, a social archiving project for the BKR, and Aidalex, a legal decision support system for the Walloon region. She is also a data manager for the ILC where she performs various tasks such as the supervision of the oral and written corpus processing chain, the development of preprocessing and processing tools, etc.

Post-doctoral fellow in political science

Christoph Niessen is a post-doctoral researcher in political science at UCLouvain. His research focuses on the dynamics of autonomy in multinational states and on the institutionalization of citizen deliberation processes.

Assistant professor

Coline Rondiat is an executive assistant at UCLouvain. As part of her doctoral research, she analyzes the discourse produced by scientific experts and political representatives in order to determine what these actors consider to be a legitimate decision (making) in times of crisis.

Political sciences intern

Axel Humbert-Labeaumaz is doing a Master's degree at Sciences Po Grenoble. He became interested in ideologies and discourses through a bachelor's thesis on the Church and conspiracy. He was trained on the theoretical framework of populism, and participates as an intern at UCLouvain in the collection and coding of speeches.

Website designer

Klara Lewin is a student at UCLouvain. She worked on the design of the website.

Professor of communication 

Sandrine Roginsky has a doctorate in sociology and is a professor at the School of Communication at UCLouvain. She is mainly interested in communication in a political context, the making of political communication at the level of European institutions and in the uses of digital social network devices in politics. Her research is part of a comprehensive and constructivist epistemology.

PhD student in linguistics

Nadezda Shchinova is a doctoral student in linguistics at the Institute for Language and Communication of UCLouvain. As part of her thesis, supervised by Barbara De Cock and Philippe Hambye, she is studying the use and meanings given to the term populism in political discourse, media discourse and social networks.

Data manager

Ferdinand Teuber is a research project coordinator at UCLouvain. He carried out the collection of parliamentary data for the TrUMPo project.

Data manager

Romane Werner is an executive assistant at UCLouvain. She is mainly interested in forensic linguistics, Italian grammar and its influence from a didactic point of view as well as discourse on / of the Mafia. 

Post-doctoral fellow in linguistics

Laetitia Aulit has a doctorate in linguistics and is a post-doctoral researcher for the TrUMPo project. Interested in discourse analysis and pragmatics, she focused her doctoral research on the analysis of digital interactions in controversial contexts, and more specifically on the mitigation and intensification strategies used in Spanish to position oneself and their roles in argumentation.

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Linguistics intern

Juliette Zanellato is doing a Master's degree in linguistics at UCLouvain. She is interested in sociolinguistics and attitudes related to popular speech. As an intern, she helped develop the coding guide to standardize the annotation of linguistic features in the TrUMPo project database. 

Coder

Ezechiel Lerat is a master's student in political science at UCLouvain and collaborates with the TrUMPo project. He is particularly interested in comparative politics and in the Belgian political system. As a member of the TrUMPo project, he participates in the coding and analysis of data

Professor of Spanish linguistics 

Barbara De Cock is a professor of Spanish linguistics at UCLouvain. She is mainly interested in the pragmatics of person reference and impersonal constructions in Spanish, and in the discursive analysis of different types of political discourse, including discourse on social networks.

PhD student in communication

Raül Nuevo Gascó is a doctoral student in communication at UCLouvain within the TrUMPo team. His research focuses on the uses of the term populism and aims to study the dynamics of movement between the parliamentary arena, the media arena and Twitter in three countries: Spain, Belgium and France.

Administrative manager

Catherine Goossens has worked at UCLouvain since 2009. She first served as secretary of the International Relations Office (ADRI) and, since 2018, as secretary of the Institute of Political Science Louvain-Europe (ISPOLE). Moreover, she is the Grant Holder Manager of Action COST 17135-Constitution-making and deliberative democracy and the Administrative Manager of the TrUMPo ARC. 

Post-doctoral fellow in linguistics

Anaïs Augé is a post-doctoral researcher in linguistics at UCLouvain. Her research focuses on the analysis of political discourse – at regional, national and international levels – in the context of climate crisis and environmental justice. She is primarily interested in metaphors, the argumentative function of discourse, and the production and reception of metaphorical discourse in multicultural contexts.

Postdoctoral fellow in political science

Jessy Bailly is a postdoctoral researcher in political science at UCLouvain for the TrUMPo project. In his thesis, he worked on the democratic imaginaries of activists and citizens in Belgium, Spain and France. His recent research focuses on the citizen participation policy of the European Union and the place of conflict in the sociology of public action.

Coder

Ezechiel Lerat is a master's student in political science at UCLouvain and collaborates with the TrUMPo project. He is particularly interested in comparative politics and in the Belgian political system. As a member of the TrUMPo project, he participates in the coding and analysis of data