Dr Thomas Christiansen

Professor of European Institutional Politics

Thomas Christiansen is Jean Monnet Professor of European Institutional Politics at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and teaches predominantly on the Research Masters in European Studies and the European Public Affairs Masters. He joined the Department of Political Science in 2010, after several years at the European institute of Public Administration. He is Executive Editor of the Journal of European Integration, academic coordinator of the Observatory of Parliaments after Lisbon (OPAL) and member of the steering committee of the Standing Group of the European Union of the European Consortium of Political Research. He has published widely on different aspects of the institutional politics of the EU. The European Union After the Lisbon Treaty, co-authored with E.Best and W.Wessels, is forthcoming with Oxford University Press.