Danqi Guo

PhD Candidate in Political Science

Freie Universität Berlin  ·  Berlin, Germany

I am a PhD candidate (near completion, on the job market) in Political Science at Freie Universität Berlin, and a Predoctoral Researcher at the ERC-funded project on Digital Governance in China.

My research sits at the intersection of authoritarian politics, political psychology (particularly affect and emotion), and technology (particularly AI and other disruptive technologies). With this multidisciplinary lens, I study macro-level transformation of political institutions in modern states, and the micro-level interplay between emotion and digital political control. My dissertation investigates the role of emotion in the rise of digital authoritarianism, using China as a central empirical case.

Methodologically, I draw on quantitative and experimental approaches — large-scale surveys, experiments, computational multimodal techniques — as well as qualitative methods including fieldwork, participant observation, and interviews.

My work has been published in Perspectives on Politics, Regulation & Governance, and the Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning.