since 2026

Research Associate, Booster Research Unit SCEPTIC - "Social, Computational, and Ethical Premises of Trust and Informational Cohesion", Digital Social Science, University of Oldenburg

Academic positions

2020 - 2025 Research Associate, Comparative Democracy Research and Political Systems of Eastern Europe, Center for Comparative Research on Democracy, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Affiliations and guest residencies

Since 2022 Associate Researcher, Centre for Transdisciplinary Gender Studies, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

2025 Visiting researcher, Uniwersytet Wrocławski

2024 Visiting researcher, University College London

2020 - 2024 Associate Researcher, Centre for Communication Theory and Media Effects Research, Freie Universität Berlin

2023 Visiting researcher, Centre on Social Movement Studies/Scuola Normale Superiore Florence

2022 Visiting researcher, Princeton University

Education

2026 PhD in Political Science, Berlin Graduate School of Social Sciences, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

2019 Master of Arts in Eastern European Studies (Sociology), Freie Universität Berlin

2017 Bachelor of Arts in Polish Studies and Sociology, University of Potsdam

Research interests

• Illiberal and far-right politics (esp. anti-gender/anti-feminism)
• Political communication and digital mobilisation
• Social movements and political sociology
• East-Central and Eastern Europe
• Gender and politics
• Social network analysis, quantitative and qualitative text analysis

Publications

Belarus: Consolidated autocracy in the shadow of Russia. In: Priebus, Sonja; Beichelt, Timm (Eds.): Die politischen Systeme im östlichen Europa. Institutions, Actors and Processes. Springer VS, Wiesbaden (2025, with Silvia von Steinsdorff)

Virtual Brokers and National Boundaries: Tracing Transnational Online Networks in European Anti-Gender Movements. In: Mobilisation: An International Quarterly, 29 (4), 487-506. doi.org/10.17813/1086-671X-29-4-487 (2024)

Unholy Alliances? A Case Study of Cooperation between Churches and the Radical Right Group Młodzież Wszechpolska in Poland. In: Polish Political Science Review, 8 (1), 68-86. doi.org/10.2478/ppsr-2020-0005 (2020)

Blog posts and other publications

Movement parties of the extreme right in Europe. In: Research Journal Social Movements, 38 (4), 785-788. (2025, review Castelli Gattinara/Pirro 2024. Movement Parties of the Far Right)

Abortion Rights and Election Campaigns: the Case of Poland. In: Engenderings. (2023, with Kaja Kaźmierska)

The Right to Abortion in Election Campaigns: The Case of Poland. In: Genderblog. (2023, with Kaja Kaźmierska)

Europe: Peace, Prosperity and a Marginalised Eastern Perspective. In: L.I.S.A. Science Portal Gerda Henkel Foundation. (2022)