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Hi! I'm a PhD researcher at the Institute for Complex Networks at WU Vienna. My work is about understanding what happens to online communities during moments of crisis — wars, terrorist attacks, mass protests. Who talks to whom, how groups form, how grievances spread, and how moral language shapes the way people make sense of chaos together. Most of this happens in collaboration with my supervisors and fellow researchers, which is one of my favourite things about academia. You rarely figure anything out alone.

Before the PhD I took a fairly winding road through supply chain consulting, improving price prediction engines for a recommerce platform, and at one point co-founding a small biotech startup during my MSc that was trying to get mealworms to eat plastic. I have an MSc and BSc from WU Vienna and Cracow University of Economics respectively, and I came to research late enough to still find it exciting.