Thomas Ehrhard holds a Ph.D. in Political Science, teaches at UPA and is affiliated with the Political and constitutional studies center.

His Ph.D dissertation was awarded the Mattei Dogan Foundation thesis prize by the French Political Science Association in the « Analysis of the French society category), and received the  Political and Moral Sciences Academy’s Corbay Prize from the French Institute, as well as the National Assembly’s thesis prize. He recently published Le découpage électoral sous la Ve République. Intérêts parlementaires, logiques partisanes (2017), and co-edited a publication of the Election Law Journal : What Do Political Scientists Know About Electoral Reform That Practitioners Do Not? A View from Europe and Canada (2017).