Elisabeth Höldrich
Doctoral Researcher
A PhD candidate researching the rise and spread of conspiracy theories in online environments within the ORION project.
Her work combines computational social science and political theory around the question: how narratives shape the world. She studies how news media frame violent conflict, how conspiracy and far-right narratives carry fascist ideology into online spaces, and how AI systems concentrate epistemic power. This concern with power over knowledge also shapes her work on PeaceTech, which she approaches from a decolonial perspective. Methodologically, she pairs large-scale text and network analysis with theory, and brings her research to wider audiences through schools and exhibitions.
She holds a BSc in physics from TU Graz and an MSc in physics from the University of Graz, and is currently a doctoral researcher at the IDea_Lab, University of Graz.
