About me

CORE Fellow at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies – on research leave from Maastricht University 2022/23

I am fascinated by how information circulates in societies and seek to understand how (authoritarian) governments try to shape and control the dissemination of information. In connection to this, I am interested in how the boundaries of freedom of expression, media and internet freedom are continuously negotiated and legitimated. The topics I study are complex. Therefore, my research agenda is interdisciplinary and draws upon, among others, Media Studies, Political Communication, International Relations and Critical Internet Studies.

• Member of the Expert Pool on Cyber and Expert Pool on Russia of the European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats (Hybrid CoE)
• Editor of open access journal Studies in Russian, Eurasian and Central European New Media (digitalicons.org)

Research focus

Positions

CORE Fellow, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies (2022-2023)

Assistant Professor in Cyber-Security and Politics, Maastricht University
(2019 – ) on leave 2022/2023

(Non-resident) Visiting Researcher, Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki
(2019 – 2022)
Principle Investigator of the research project ‘Towards sustainable journalism for the algorithmic future’ funded by Helsingin Sanomat Foundation.

NWO Rubicon Postdoctoral Fellow, Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki
(2018 – 2019)
Project: Selling censorship – Affective framing and the legitimation of internet control in Russia

Postdoctoral Researcher, Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki
(2017 – 2018)
Project researcher. Russian Media Lab: Freedom of Speech and Critical Journalism in Russia.

Lecturer in East European Studies, University of Amsterdam
(2016 – 2017)

PhD assistantship, University of Groningen
(2012 – 2016)
PhD thesis: Memory politics in contemporary Russia: Television, cinema and the state.