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.
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.
Daria Kravets was a Research Associate and PhD student, primarily responsible for conducting the research efforts of work package 3. Her research interests were in the areas of political communication, algorithmic bias, and computational methods.
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.
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.
Serge Poliakoff was a Research Associate and PhD student in the RUSINFORM project. His research interests were in the areas of Russia's Informational influence, dis-/misinformation, propaganda, fake news and computational methods.
Dr Susanne Spahn was a research associate. Her research focused on Russian media and disinformation in Germany, as well as Russia’s foreign policy towards Ukraine and Belarus, and Russia’s influence on elections and post-Soviet migrants in Germany.
This project is affiliated with the Chair of Political Communication with a Focus on Eastern Europe and the Post-Soviet Region.
