Victor Alembik
Email: v.s.o.alembik@uva.nl
Position: PhD Candidate in Political Science
Institution: University of Amsterdam

Education

• 2023-2026: PhD Candidate in Political Science, Electoral Violence and Parties,  Pr. Ursula Daxecker & Dr. Neeraj Prasad.
  Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR), University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

• 2020-2023: PhD Candidate in Political Science, Public Opinion, Political Communication & Political Behavior.
  Network for the Advancement of Social and Political Studies (NASP), University of Milan, Italy

• 2018-2020: Research Master's degree in Comparative Development Studies, Pr. Loraine Kennedy & Dr. J-T Martelli
  "Political professionalisation towards populist careers in contemporary India"
  École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France

• 2013-2017: BA in International Studies (South & Southeast Asia), Dr. Roshni Sengupta and Pr. Pralay Kanungo
  Leiden University, Netherlands.
  "India’s use of multi‐alignment to coordinate foreign policy and maritime and security security objectives"

Language Proficiency - French (Native), English (C1-C2), Hindi (B1-B2)
Methods - webscrapping, quantitative, fieldwork

Professional Affiliations & Service to the profession

Visiting Scholar, Centre de Sciences Humaines, New Delhi. June-November 2019 / January-July 2022
Secretary - Youth Association for Indian Studies / Association des Jeunes Études Indiennes  (2021-2023)
Co-Founder and Steering Committee Member - Opus Initiative for Young Scholars on Populism (2021-2023)

Teaching & Supervision

Junior Lecturer at "Politics, Psychology, Law and Economics" - University of Amsterdam (UvA)

3801PPQPVY_B1 - "Politics, Power and Governance - 1" (September-October 2023, 361 hours)
3802SEQPVY_B3 - "Integrative Seminar 3: Security" (January 2024, 110 hours)
3802SRPPVY_B4 - "Skills and Research Methods for Political Science" (February-March 2024, 220 hours)
3812DADPVY_B4 - "Democracies and Democratisation" (February-March 2024, 124 hours)
3803THQPVY_B5+B6 - "Thesis Supervision : Psychology of Populism" (April-June 2024, 91 hours)

Conferences

"International Studies Association" (ISA), April 2024, San Francisco, USA.
Party-Switching as a Tool for Dominant-Party Building

"Electoral Violence and Party", June 2023, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Party-Switching as a Tool for Dominant-Party Building

"International Convention of Asia Scholars" (ICAS),  August 2021, Kyoto, Japan.
Youth Populist Politics in the Time of the Pandemic: Discursive and Organisational Adaptations

Workshops

Co-organizer - Opus Initiative for Young Scholars on Populism :
Gradate Seminar for Young Scholars on Populism
Opus Conversation -  Cas Mudde, Kirk Hawkins, Chantal Mouffe.

Research Grants 

• Research Priority Grant,  December 2023, Interdisciplinary Data Science Project, (ca. €1,000)
  Social and Behavioural Data Science Centre, University of Amsterdam
  Building a webscrapping tools to collect Facebook pages of political candidates.

• Didactic Innovation Grant, Decemebr 2023, Gamification in Teaching, (ca. €5,000)
  Teaching & Learning Center, University of Amsterdam
  Designing Crisis Simulation for hypothesis testing.

• Amsterdam Center for Conflict Studies (ACCS), November 2023, (ca. €2,500)
  Amsterdam Institute of Social Science Research, University of Amsterdam
  Conference funding for "International Studies Association" 2024 in San Francisco.

• Political Economy and Transnational Governance (PETGOV), November 2023, (ca. €1,500)
  Amsterdam Institute of Social Science Research, University of Amsterdam
  Collecting data on criminal cases and assets of Indian candidates.

• Fully-funded PhD Scholarship,  October 2020 - August 2023, (ca. €45,000)
  Network for the Advancement of Political and Social Studies, University of Milan, Italy

• Fieldwork Scholarship for Master's Students, February 2020, (ca. €800)
  École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France