Matilde Bro Hansen

Matilde Bro Hansen

PhD fellow

Matilde Bro Hansen is a Ph.D. fellow at the Department of Political Science of the University of Copenhagen with affilation to SODAS. She holds a master’s and bachelor's degree in International Business and Politics from Copenhagen Business School with an exchange semester at Korea University in Seoul and internships in the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Silicon Valley and the European Commission in Brussels. 

At the department she is affiliated with the research project SOVEREIGN led by Professor Rebecca Adler-Nissen and Assistant Professor Kristin Eggeling. Matilde Bro Hansen's Ph.D. project broadly focuses on EU's tech agenda specifically tracing the meaning of digital sovereignty as presented, negotiated, and discussed by the EU institutions. The project concentrates on different qualitative methods collected through fieldwork in Brussels in order to explore the practices of negotiating and regulating technology in the EU institutions. 

Her supervisors are Rebecca Adler-Nissen and Kristin Eggeling. 

Teaching

During the spring of 2024, Matilde Bro Hansen will teach the course 'Europe's quest for digital sovereignty: Exploring EU in the global tech race'. The elective is designed by her and focuses on the theoretical understanding of sovereignty when added the prefix 'digital'. With EU as the focal point the course will explore the role of EU institutions, tech corporations and civil society organizations in the EU policymaking process of digial policy and tech legislation, but also uncover the external effect of EU regulation on a global scale. 

Furthermore, she will in spring 2024 supervise students studying International Politics #3 (IP3) and facilitate the qualitative part of the methods café for bachelors' theses. 

During the fall of 2024, Matilde Bro Hansen will supervise maters' theses and facilitate the qualitative part of the methods café for bachelors' theses. 

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