Philipp Darius is a Ph.D. candidate in the Governance program and an incoming postdoctoral researcher at the Hertie School’s Centre for Digital Governance. During his Ph.D., he spent research visits at the Data Science Institute at the London School of Economics and at GESIS - the Leibniz Institute for Social Sciences as a Eurolab grant holder. Philipp also works with NGOs on media literacy and projects on countering disinformation and online harm. In his Ph.D. dissertation, Philipp empirically analyses political behavior on social media platforms and discusses ways of governing social platforms as changing environments for political communication and participation. His work is interdisciplinary and uses computational, quantitative, and qualitative approaches. In his postdoctoral research, Philipp will continue this empirical work and investigate how the implementation of the EU Digital Services Act shapes social platforms and electoral governance in and outside the European Union.
Main supervisor: Prof. Dr. Andrea Römmele
