Mercenier, Heidi: - Heidi Mercenier is currently a postdoctoral researcher at Vrije Universiteit Brussels (VUB) and the Université catholique de Louvain. She is also a Visiting Professor at the Université Saint-Louis-Bruxelles (USL-B). Heidi Mercenier's main research interest lies in citizens' relationships with politics, especially towards the EU, as well as how current digitalization processes affect such relationships. She has been publishing in leading political science journals such as the Journal of European Public Policy and Politique européenne, and she has co-edited two books (Bruylant and Université de libre de Bruxelles). She completed her Phd at the Université Saint-Louis-Bruxelles (USL-B) and she worked as a lecturer at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU) and as a visiting fellow at the Center for European Studies (ARENA) of the University of Oslo.