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). I study the macro-level transformation of political institutions in modern autocracies, and the micro-level interplay between emotion and digital political control. My dissertation investigates digital authoritarianism through the understudied lens of emotion, 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.