The ERC research group was comprised of the Principal Investigator Professor Florian Toepfl, multiple predoctoral researchers, and a series of visiting fellows who joined the project for limited periods of time.
Professor Florian Toepfl was the Principal Investigator of the RUSINFORM project. He co-ordinates the research efforts conducted in the four work packages.
Anna Ryzhova was a Research Associate and PhD student in the RUSINFORM project. Her main research focus were located on the work package 1. Her research interests included political communication, audience research and news critical literacy.
Arista Beseler was a Research Associate and PhD student in the project RUSINFORM. Digital communcation was her main research interest, with a focus on audience participation and the public discourse about potentially controversial topics.
Julia Kling was a Research Associate and PhD student in the RUSINFORM project. Her research interests were in the areas of Russia’s Informational influence, as well as transnational audience research and computational methods.
This project is affiliated with the Chair of Political Communication with a Focus on Eastern Europe and the Post-Soviet Region.
