Stéphanie Novak gained her Ph.D. in political science from Sciences-Po Paris in 2009 (supervisor: Bernard Manin, NYU/EHESS). She studied philosophy (MA and “agrégation”) and is an alumna of the École Normale Supérieure, Paris and of Panthéon-Sorbonne University. In 2006-2007, she was a doctoral exchange student and an Arthur Sachs Fellow at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences of Harvard University (department of Government and Center for European Studies). From 2008 to 2010, she was research assistant for Jon Elster at the Collège de France. In 2010-2011 she was a postdoctoral Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute. From September 2011, she will be a Roman Herzog Fellow at the Hertie School of Governance, Berlin.
Her fields of specialization are decision-making and transparency in the EU institutions, the sociology of collective decisions and political theory. Her Ph.D. thesis was published in 2011 by Dalloz, Paris : La prise de décision au Conseil de l’Union européenne. Pratiques du vote et du consensus. She is currently revising a collective volume on Majority Decisions co-edited with Jon Elster.