Academic interests
climate governance; EU environmental policy; Europeanization; policy implementation; subnational politics; mixed methods research
Courses taught
- STV4030B
- STV2547
Background
Marie-Thérèse Wilhelm earned her PhD in political science from Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) in Spain. She has been a visiting scholar at the University of Antwerp and Maastricht University, and has worked as an external expert for the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) and as an individual consultant for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) in New York. Marie-Thérèse's research has been published in South European Society and Politics, European Union Politics, Regional & Federal Studies, and the Journal of European Integration.
Positions held
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Oslo (UiO), 2026-
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), 2024-2025
Publications
• Wilhelm, M.-T., Miró, J. (2026). When the Recovery and Resilience Facility hits home: EU crisis governance and recentralisation in federal and quasi-federal member states, Journal of European Integration. https://10.1080/07036337.2026.2736768.
• Wilhelm, M.-T. (2026). Echoes of the public: Public opinion and subnational compliance with European environmental directives. European Union Politics, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/14651165261471485.
• Wilhelm, M. T. (2025). Subnational trouble? Party system nationalisation, issue salience, and capacity constraints in Spain´s infringements of European environmental directives. South European Society and Politics, 30(2), 257–289. https://doi.org/10.1080/13608746.2025.2490896.
• Wilhelm, M. T. (2025). Green matters? The effects of green party support, autonomy and capacity on subnational environmental infringements. Regional & Federal Studies, 36(2), 265–296. https://doi.org/10.1080/13597566.2025.2486623.
Datasets
Wilhelm, M.-T. (2026). Subnational European Environmental Infringements (SEEI) Dataset [Dataset]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22029209.
Reports, Op-eds
Wilhelm, MT. (2025). Subnational environmental compliance: The achievability of European environmental goals. EURAC Research Blog. https://doi.org/10.57708/BZCJBSJ98RN2NCUIPZQAKUG.