Isabelle Hertner

Isabelle Hertner is a Senior Lecturer in the Politics of Britain in Europe at King’s College London, affiliated with the Department of European & International Studies within the School of Politics & Economics. She serves as director of the King’s Centre for German Transnational Relations and co-editor of *Government and Opposition*, an International Journal of Comparative Politics. Her research focuses on political parties in Europe, EU-level politics, gender representation, and German/French EU dynamics. Hertner holds a PhD in European Politics from Royal Holloway (University of London) and a MA from the College of Europe in Bruges. She teaches modules on British Politics, European Gender Politics, and Comparative European Politics, and has supervised seven PhD students to completion. Her work explores topics like women’s representation in political parties, intra-party democracy, and far-right politics. She actively engages with media through BBC, Sky News, and academic blogs.

• Education: PhD in European Politics (Royal Holloway, 2013), MA in European Political Studies (College of Europe), BA in Political Science/French/Italian (Universities of Trier and Erlangen-Nürnberg).
• Labs/Teams: King’s Centre for German Transnational Relations, European Politics and Society Research Group, Centre for British Democracy.
• Future Work: Preparing the 11th edition of *Politics UK*, continuing research on gender and Europarties.