Quentin Michel graduated from the University of Liege (Doctorate). He is Ordinary Professor in European Studies at Department of Political Science Liège University.

His current fields of researches are:

• Decision making process of EU Institutions in particular the role of informal governance;
• Strategic trade control regimes. A present research is devoted to the increasing responsibility of industries and exporters in the proliferation risk analysis.
• EU sustainable development policies in regards with its links with other policies (impact assessment studies)
• Nuclear regulation policies
  
  His main last five publications are:

1. Controle van de handel in dual-use goederen: het juridische kluwen na de regionalisering, Belgische wapenhandel: Een politiek, economisch en ethisch hangijzer, ACCO, Leuven/Den Haag, 2014, 190 pages
   
   
2. De Lisbonne à Rome, Evolution article par article des traités institutionels de l’Union européenne, Manuel, Presse Universitaires de Liège, Mai 2014, 796 pages
   
   
3. European Dual-Use Trade Controls Beyond materiality and Borders, Collection Non-Prolifération, PIE-Peter Lang, Bruxelles, Collection Non-Prolifération, PIE-Peter Lang, Bruxelles, 2013, 155 pages
   
   
4. Controlling the Trade of the Dual-Use Items, Handbook, Collection Non-Prolifération, PIE-Peter Lang, Bruxelles, Collection Non-Prolifération, PIE-Peter Lang, Bruxelles, 2013, 122 pages