About

Hi, thanks for stopping by! I am an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the Department of Political Science and Public Administration, VU Amsterdam. I work in comparative politics, political behaviour, political economy and political methodology.

I received a Ph.D. in Political Science from the European University Institute (EUI) in 2021, an M.Res. in Political Science from the EUI in 2017, an M.Sc. in Comparative Politics from University College London (UCL) in 2014 and a B.A. in Translation Studies from Shanghai International Studies University (SISU) in 2013. Before joining VU, I was a Research Fellow at the EUI on the ERC synergy project SOLID.

I am a faculty affiliate to the Network Institute, VU Behavioural Lab, Resilience, Security and Civil Unrest Lab (ReSCU), and Artificial Intelligence and Digital Governance Lab (AIGD).

My research examines how citizens and political institutions respond to economic, geopolitical, and technological change, with a particular focus on European politics. My substantive work spans European integration, solidarity, and collective capacity, public opinion and political behaviour, comparative political economy, party and electoral politics, political mobilisation, and AI governance and algorithmic accountability. Methodologically, I use and develop a range of approaches, including experiments, formal modelling, Bayesian and nonparametric statistics, measurement, time-series analysis, causal inference, machine learning, and AI and LLM auditing.

I currently teach undergraduate- and graduate-level courses in comparative politics and research methods at VU. Beyond the university, I also teach advanced methods at international summer schools, including the ECPR Methods School, where I received the Cora Maas Award for Best Course, the Summer School in Social Science Methods, Lugano, and the IPSA Summer School.

You can reach me via email: chendi.wang[at]vu.nl.