SSH/ESPO Faculty of Economic, Social and Political Sciences and Communication (ESPO)
SSH/ESPO/PSAD Ecole des Sciences politiques et sociales / Louvain School of Political and Social Sciences (PSAD)
SSH/SPLE Institut de sciences politiques Louvain-Europe (ISPOLE)
Virginie Van Ingelgom is a Senior Research Associate at F.R.S.–FNRS and Professor at the Institut de Sciences Politiques Louvain-Europe (UCLouvain). She is also a Visiting Professor at the European Political and Governance Studies Department of the College of Europe. She earned her PhD from Sciences Po Paris and UCLouvain (2010).
She has held visiting fellowships at Oxford University (2009, 2011), Sciences Po Paris – CEE (2006–2010, 2017, 2025), Université de Montréal (2010), and the European University Institute (2022). Additionally, she has been an Invited Professor at Sciences Po Bordeaux (2018, 2023), Sciences Po Grenoble (2016–2018), and the Graduate Institute Geneva (2020 – online). Her current teaching includes courses at UCLouvain (Master’s in Political Science and European Studies) and the College of Europe. In 2022, she was recognized as an Excellent Female Researcher by AcademiaNet.
Her research focuses on democracy, representation, and legitimacy at multiple levels—subnational, national, European, and global. She also examines citizens' attitudes toward European integration, the policy feedback effects on political behavior, and employs qualitative and mixed methods.
Her work has been widely recognized: Theseus Award for Promising Research on European Integration (2010); Best Dissertation Prize in Comparative Politics (French Political Science Association & Mattei Dogan Foundation, 2011); Jean Blondel PhD Prize (European Consortium for Political Research, 2012); and Fernand Braudel Fellowship (EUI, 2022)
From 2017 to 2023, she led an ERC Starting Grant, the QUALIDEM research project with Prof. C. Dupuy, developing an innovative approach to studying citizens’ (dis)affection toward politics through the lens of policy feedback. She is also:
- Co-leader of the EOS project NotLikeUS – examining perceptions of differentness, polarization, and dissatisfaction with representatives (with Prof. K. Celis, VUB).
- Co-PI of the Chist-Era collaborative European Project ITrust – tackling social polarization and misinformation on social media (PI: Prof. K. Budzynska, Warsaw University of Technology).
- Principal Investigator of the MIS Project – analyzing citizens’ perceptions of globalization in multi-level settings (with Prof. S. Verhaegen, Maastricht University).
In 2024, she was awarded a second ERC Proof of Concept Grant for DACAT – Developing an Abductive Coding Analysis Toolkit (with Prof. C. Dupuy).
| Year | Label | School |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Docteur en sciences politiques et sociales | Université catholique de Louvain (Belgique) |
| 2005 | Diplômée d'études spécialisées en études européennes - Master in European Studies | Université catholique de Louvain (Belgique) |
| 2004 | Licenciée en sciences politiques | Université catholique de Louvain (Belgique) |
| 2002 | Candidate en sciences politiques | Université catholique de Louvain (Belgique) |