António Valentim

António Valentim serves as an Assistant Professor in European Politics and Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science's European Institute, where he teaches graduate courses including Analytical Politics and Policymaking in Europe, People and Politics in Europe, and the Political Economy of the Green Transition in Europe. His academic profile spans multiple European institutions with significant research contributions in environmental politics.

His educational background includes a PhD in political science from the DYNAMICS graduate school (jointly organized by Humboldt University Berlin and the Hertie School), an MSc in (social) psychology from the London School of Economics, and a BA from the University of Coimbra. Prior to his current position, he was a Postdoctoral Associate at Yale University's MacMillan Center and held visiting positions at Sciences Po and IESP-UERJ.

Valentim's research focuses on comparative and environmental politics, specifically investigating when and why voters change opinions regarding climate change and how political incentives influence elites' climate behavior. His work integrates social psychology with comparative politics, employing econometric tools, survey experiments, and interviews. He also maintains strong interests in gender representation and political behavior in established democracies.

His publications reveal consistent methodological sophistication across environmental politics, with particular attention to climate protests, electoral consequences of environmental policies, and party system responses to climate change. The research demonstrates increasing interdisciplinary integration between political science, environmental studies, and behavioral psychology, with growing emphasis on cross-national comparative analysis.

Valentim actively contributes to methodological training through courses like Causal Inference in R and has developed original datasets on electoral boundaries, female local candidates, and environmental protests. His teaching portfolio reflects deep engagement with both theoretical frameworks and empirical research design in environmental politics.