Sergei Pashakhin (M.A. HSE University) is a PhD researcher with the Chair of Political Science, with a special focus on Digital Transformations at the University of Bamberg. Their research interests include digital platforms, autocratization, computational text analysis, and machine learning.

Sergei Pashakhin is a political communication researcher whose work focuses on digital and social media in autocratizing countries. They are doing their PhD with the Chair of Political Science, with a special focus on Digital Transformations at the University of Bamberg. Before joining the University of Bamberg, Sergei was a Junior Research Fellow at the Social & Cognitive Informatics Laboratory and a lecturer at HSE University in Saint Petersburg. Sergei's work has been published in journals such as Political Communication, Media, War & Conflict, and conference proceedings such as Social Informatics from the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Two papers, one of which is based on their Master's thesis, received the Top Paper Award from the Political Communication Division of the International Communication Association.