Lena Frischlich (PhD in Psychology, University of Cologne) is an Associate Professor and Co-Director of the Centre for Digital Democracy at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU). Before coming to Denmark, she served as an interim Professor for Communication at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich (2020-21 and 2023). Between 2018 and 2023, she led the junior research group “DemoRESILdigital: Democratic resilience in times of online-propaganda, fake news, fear and hate speech” at the University of Muenster, Germany.Frischlich researches the staging and effects of manipulation-oriented political online communication, including disinformation, conspiracy myths, and extremist propaganda and aims to understand how resilience against such manipulation attempts can be fostered. In her research, she combines quantitative and qualitative methods from empirical social sciences with computational measures (such as natural language processing and machine learning). Frischlich has published over 80 academic contributions, over 40 of which have been published in peer-reviewed scholarly journals, including leading journals of her field. She has been (co-) PI on multiple third-party funding projects addressing manipulative online content and countermeasures. In 2023, her research was rewarded with the Sponsorship Award of the University of Münster Society for Early Career Scholars. In 2020, she was elected to the prestigious Young Colleagues of the North-Rhine Westphalian Academy of Sciences and the Arts.