I am a postdoctoral fellow in the Emergence, Life, and Demise of Autocratic Regimes (ELDAR) project at the University of Oslo and a non-resident fellow in the Digital Society Initiative at the University of Zurich. I am also a member of the DE-CONSPIRATOR Network of Interest (NoI) — an initiative connecting researchers, policymakers, and civil society to combat Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference.

While most of my work is on digital politics, my research speaks more broadly to the fields of comparative politics, conflict studies, political communication, and applied data science. More specifically, I study the use and impact of digital technologies such as online censorship and propaganda with an emphasis on authoritarian regimes.

Concerning my research on online censorship, I have, for example, worked on cyberattacks as a censorship tool and the consequences of blocking news websites in authoritarian Egypt. Concerning my research on propaganda, I have worked a lot on visual power-projecting propaganda (see ECPR’s The Loop for a synthesis of this research).

More recently, I have become increasingly interested in how these and other digital technologies are used in democracies too, and how citizens can become resilient to democratic backsliding more generally.

Finally, in 2025, my co-authors Adrian Del Río, Carl Henrik Knutsen, and I were awarded the 2025 Lijphart/Przeworski/Verba Best Dataset Honorable Mention by APSA’s Comparative Politics Section for our historical work on education systems and policies worldwide.

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