Welcome!
I'm Professor of International and Cyber Security at the Hertie School in Berlin, core faculty of the Centre for International Security and a Principal Investigator in the Cluster of Excellence SCRIPTS. Previously, I was Assistant Professor of International Relations at the University of Zurich, and postdoctoral research fellow at the Belfer Center and the Women and Public Policy Program in the Harvard Kennedy School.
My research focuses on the intersection of technology and security, with a special focus on digital authoritarianism and repression. My recently published book is titled Repression in the Digital Age: Surveillance, Censorship, and the Dynamics of State Violence and theoretically and empirically investigates how governments use cyber controls to support their strategies of violent repression. The book received the 2024 Goldsmith Book Prize, awarded by the Harvard Kennedy School Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics, and Public Policy.
My work is regularly covered by media outlets and has appeared in the American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Journal of Peace Research, Nature Human Behavior, and at Oxford University Press and Cambridge University Press. I am also an Associate Editor (International Relations and Conflict) at Political Science Research and Methods.
Next to my academic research I have more than 15 years of experience working with international organisations and non-profit groups. I worked as a consultant with the Human Rights Data Analysis Group for many years on estimating death tolls in a variety of conflicts, and also worked with Amnesty International on investigating the human rights costs on Internet shutdowns. In 2025 I was appointed to The Advisory Board to the Federal German Government for Civilian Crisis Prevention and Peacebuilding.
My pronouns are she/her.
My research focuses on the intersection of technology and security, with a special focus on digital authoritarianism and repression. My recently published book is titled Repression in the Digital Age: Surveillance, Censorship, and the Dynamics of State Violence and theoretically and empirically investigates how governments use cyber controls to support their strategies of violent repression. The book received the 2024 Goldsmith Book Prize, awarded by the Harvard Kennedy School Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics, and Public Policy.
My work is regularly covered by media outlets and has appeared in the American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Journal of Peace Research, Nature Human Behavior, and at Oxford University Press and Cambridge University Press. I am also an Associate Editor (International Relations and Conflict) at Political Science Research and Methods.
Next to my academic research I have more than 15 years of experience working with international organisations and non-profit groups. I worked as a consultant with the Human Rights Data Analysis Group for many years on estimating death tolls in a variety of conflicts, and also worked with Amnesty International on investigating the human rights costs on Internet shutdowns. In 2025 I was appointed to The Advisory Board to the Federal German Government for Civilian Crisis Prevention and Peacebuilding.
My pronouns are she/her.
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