Sophie is a PhD student at Central European University. Her research focuses on opposition against authoritarianism in the post-Soviet space.
Sophie’s current project - supervised by Andreas Schedler - tends to Russian opposition organisations who contest the Putin regime from exile. The project elaborates on coordination between exiled opposition groups, aiming to advance an explanation of Russian opposition coordination in exile before and after the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Based on a novel data set compiled from Telegram channel data, the first part of the project leverages the tools of social network analysis to shed light on a phenomenon that has become increasingly wide-spread across the globe but is rarely looked at in its own right.