Dr Verena K. Brändle

• PhD, University of Copenhagen, 2017
• MA in Contemporary European Studies, University of Bath, Sciences Po Paris, HU Berlin, FU Berlin, 2012
• BA in Rhetoric (major) and Public Law (minor), University of Tübingen, 2010

Dr Brändle joined the Department in April 2023. She was previously a Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Communication at the University of Vienna. Prior to that she held Postdoctoral positions in several international research projects at the University of Copenhagen and the University of Siegen. 

In 2020 she was awarded a DFF-International Postdoctoral Grant from the Independent Research Fund Denmark for a project entitled ‘Informing to dissuade: Governments’ digital information campaigns for migrants as bordering practices’. She was also a Visiting Fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies of the European University Institute and a PhD Visiting Fellow at the Humboldt-University in Berlin.

Dr Brändle holds a PhD from the University of Copenhagen (2017), an MA in European Politics from the University of Bath, Sciences Po Paris, Humboldt-University and Free University Berlin and a B.A. in Rhetoric and Public Law from the University of Tübingen. 

She speaks German (native language), Danish (advanced), French (intermediate) and Italian (Beginner).

Her research interests include the democratic implications of social media, digital migration studies, and questions of accountability and representation beyond the state. Currently she focuses on government communication to different target audiences in relation to questions of democratic representation, legitimation, and accountability. She is further interested in applying Computational Methods, especially for qualitative research designs.