Chendi Wang

Chendi Wang is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the Department of Political Science and Public Administration, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU). They hold affiliations with the Network Institute, Multi-layered Governance in EUrope and Beyond (MLG), VU Behavioural Lab, Resilience, Security and Civil Unrest (ReSCU) Lab, and Artificial Intelligence and Digital Governance (AIDG) Lab. Prior to this role, they were a Research Fellow at the European University Institute (EUI) in the ERC synergy project SOLID.

Education: PhD in Political Science (EUI, 2021), MRes in Political Science (EUI, 2017), MSc in Comparative Politics (UCL, 2014), BA in Translation Studies (Shanghai International Studies University, 2013).

Research focuses on comparative politics, political behaviour, political economy, and political methodology. Key areas include macroeconomic policies, party & electoral politics, European politics, and methodological innovations in Bayesian/nonparametric statistics and time series analysis. They teach quantitative methods and comparative politics at VU and advanced courses at the ECPR Methods School, where they won the Cora Maas Award.

Recent projects include the NEST initiative exploring European political contestation in geopolitical shifts. Their work addresses topics like EU foreign policy dynamics, crisis responses, and radical right movements.