Biographie

Philippe Poirier is a professor at the University of Luxembourg, holding the research chair in Legislative Studies of the Luxembourg Chamber of Deputies. He also directs the program of the same university dedicated to European governance. He is a visiting professor at the University of Turin, the University of Paris Sorbonne, the Collège des Bernardins (Paris) and the University of the Aegean (Mytilene). He is the director for Luxembourg of the European Values Study (EVS).

His research focuses on European politics, electoral and legislative studies, and the relationship between politics and religion.

After a doctorate in political science obtained in 2001 at the University of Rennes I and the University of Ottawa, he held various faculty positions at the University of Paris Sorbonne, the Collège des Bernardins and the University of Luxembourg, where he has been holding the Parliamentary Chair since 2011.