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Welcome! I am a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Digitalisation, Democracy and Innovation (CD2I) of the Brussels School of Governance, Vrije Universiteit Brussel. I am also a member of the Folke Bernadotte Academy's International Research Working Group. I hold a PhD in political science from Cornell University and have previously worked as a postdoc at the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, University of Copenhagen. My research has focused on contentious politics and digital repression in the contexts of Myanmar and Southeast Asia.
At CD2I, I lead a research project on transnational advocacy for Big Tech’s accountability to dissident voices in the Global South, by examining cross-platform authoritarian repression, dissidents' resilience capacity, and drivers of impactful platform advocacy in Southeast Asia. Adopting an engaged mixed-method research agenda, my work combines social media analysis with in-depth observation of digital rights advocates and marginalised activists in Myanmar, Thailand, and Cambodia during 2020-2024. My academic research and book review are published at International Affairs, Big Data & Society, Journal of Contemporary Asia, Asian Politics & Policy, and Asian Journal of Comparative Politics. My policy recommendations have been disseminated to hundreds of development partners at Myanmar Digital Rights Forum, Facebook, the United Nations, European Union, Oxfam, etc. Other public scholarship works on Burmese politics have appeared in an edited book by the Torino World Affairs Institute and more than 100 media outlets and research blogs, including The Washington Post, Brookings Institution, Al Jazeera, AP, New Mandala, etc. |