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Prof. Katrin Paula is a professor specializing in Global Security Technology at the Technical University of Munich. Her research focuses on human security and contentious politics, particularly the impact of changing information and communication technologies on political mobilization and violence. Key areas of her work include the influence of information technologies on the spatial and temporal diffusion of protests, the effects of state censorship on media, and its implications for political attitudes in post-conflict contexts, as well as the strategic use of violence in elections. She employs computational and quantitative methods within the field of conflict studies, alongside statistical modeling of spatial processes. Prof. Paula completed her studies in Sociology at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, culminating in a PhD from the Graduate School of Economic and Social Sciences at the University of Mannheim in 2019. She previously held a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Global Security Technology and has been involved in significant research projects, including one focusing on repression and the escalation of violence. She has received numerous awards for her academic contributions, including the Lorenz-von-Stein-Preis and the Dissertation Award from Stiftung Kommunikations- und Medienwissenschaften.
Technical University of Munich • Munich, Germany
Leading research and teaching in the area of Global Security Technology.