• Smart Authoritarianism? Comparing the Internet Strategies of Authoritarian Regimes

I am Principal Investigator and Project Leader of a project on authoritarian Internet strategies, the project is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and affiliated with the Institute of Political Science at the Goethe University Frankfurt (Germany), see also here. Together with my team, we are currently collecting data on ownership structures of Internet Service Providers (ISPs), more information here. 

• Neo-Authoritarianism in Europe and the Liberal Democratic Response (AUTHLIB)

I am a participating researcher in the EU Horizon Europe project AUTHLIB. The project is coordinated by the Central European University (CEU), other participating institutions are Charles University, German Marshall Fund, Sciences Po, Scuola Normale Superiore, University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Warsaw, University of Oxford, and the University of Vienna. See also the project's website. 

• Pandemic Backsliding: Democracy during COVID-19

I am Principal Investigator (together with Anna Lührmann, Amanda B. Edgell, and Jean Lachapelle) of a project on violations of democratic standards for emergency responses during the COVID-19 pandemic, the project was funded by the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2020/2021). For further information about this project, see here.