Dr. Mariëlle Wijermars is an Assistant Professor in Internet Governance at Maastricht University, The Netherlands. Her research examines how authoritarian states, such as Russia, seek to shape and restrict the dissemination of information and the role that platform companies play in resisting or facilitating internet censorship. Working at the intersection of Communication and Political Science, she has published extensively on digital authoritarianism, platform governance, and internet policy. Wijermars is a member of The Young Academy of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) and a recipient of the KNAW Early Career Award 2023. Her research has been supported by, e.g., the Dutch Research Council (NWO), Horizon Europe, and Helsingin Sanomat Foundation. Wijermars is the editor of The Palgrave Handbook of Digital Russia Studies (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021) and Freedom of Expression in Russia’s New Mediasphere (Routledge, 2020). She is the author of Memory Politics in Contemporary Russia: Television, Cinema and the State (Routledge, 2019).Wijermars frequently provides expert commentary to national and international media. She has also served as member of the Expert Pool on Cyber and Expert Pool on Russia of the European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats (Hybrid CoE).