Sophia Winkler is a doctoral researcher based at the Centre for East European and International Studies (ZOiS) in Berlin, Germany. She analyses the transnational social media space between Russia and Germany and its effects on young Russians in constructing and contesting their identities. Her research is part of the project “Moving Russia(ns): Intergenerational Transmission of Memories Abroad and at Home (MoveMeRU),” funded by the European Research Council, in collaboration with the Chair of Political Communication with a Focus on Eastern Europe and the Post-Soviet Region at the University of Passau, Germany. She focuses on interpretive qualitative methods, with research interests in memory and identity studies, social media, conflict transformation, and digital peacebuilding, including mechanisms for dealing with the past. Sophia holds a Bachelor's degree from the University of Vienna, Austria, and a Master's degree from the Institute for European Global Studies at the University of Basel, Switzerland. She has previously worked in the policy realm at the EU and OSCE, as well as on Swiss peace policy regarding Ukraine. Her PhD project is available here: https://www.zois-berlin.de/en/research/externally-funded-projects/movemeru/mediaanalysis
