Paul Servais graduated in Physical Engineering from the Université Libre de Bruxelles in 2023, and completed a Master’s degree in the Governance of Ecological Transitions at the Urban School of Sciences Po Paris in 2025. During 2025, he worked as a research assistant to Carlo Colombo on the GUD EU Law project. He specialises in political science, with a focus on comparative politics.

Paul Servais is pursuing a PhD in comparative political science, examining the direct and indirect effects of climate change on political behaviour in Western Europe. His research master's dissertation focused on the electoral consequences of wind turbine installations in rural areas of France. Drawing on quantitative methods of causal inference combined with qualitative fieldwork, he shows that the electoral outcomes of this public policy can be understood in light of conflicting relationships to land use in rural settings. His doctoral research, which employs similar methods, aims to extend this analysis to other consequences of climate change, particularly in relation to mitigation and (mal)adaptation.

Analysing territorial cleavages in the Anthropocene - a comparative analysis of climate change's impacts on political behaviours in Western Europe, under the direction of Jan Rovny

• Quantitative methods II (2026)