Dr. Aliya Andrich

About the person

Aliya Andrich is a postdoctoral researcher at the Chair for Computational Communication Science at LMU Munich. Her research examines how digital communication environments produce and perpetuate harm, with a focus on biased media representation, harmful AI-generated content, and the risks emerging technologies pose to public safety and well-being. She uses computational methods, including natural language processing, machine learning, computer vision, and longitudinal statistical modeling, to detect and trace these harms at scale. She holds a doctorate in communication science from TU Ilmenau (summa cum laude), where her dissertation developed computational and longitudinal approaches to detecting gender bias in political communication. Before her academic career in Germany, she studied journalism at Lomonosov Moscow State University, graduating with honors, and completed exchange semesters in EU politics and media in Denmark and the Netherlands.