Email: luise.koch(at)tum.de

Room: H.202c

Resumé

Research Areas
Dr. Luise Koch is a research associate at the Professorship for Global Health. Her research focuses on technology-facilitated gender-based violence, gendered hate speech, and digital democratic participation. Her work lies at the intersection of global health, gender studies, and social media research. She applies mixed-methods approaches combining computational social science, surveys, interviews, and systematic reviews.
In her doctoral research at the Technical University of Munich, she examined the psychological and political consequences of technology-facilitated violence against politically active individuals. Her dissertation develops a framework for understanding everyday gendered violence online and analyses the prevalence and impacts of technology-facilitated gender-based violence in different democratic contexts, including Brazil and Germany.

Academic Career
She holds a double-degree Master of Science in Development Economics from the University of Göttingen and the University of Florence, and a Bachelor of Science in International Economics at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, including an exchange semester at the Universidade de São Paulo. During her studies, she worked as a research assistant at the Chair of Development Economics, the Research Training Group Globalization and Development, and the Center for Modern Indian Studies, at the University of Göttingen, and contributed to the development of the course “Ethical and Safe Field Research”.
Alongside her academic research, she works as a consultant with the World Bank Group on projects addressing gender norms in entertainment media in India, Kenya, and Nigeria.