Bio
Janjira Sombatpoonsiri is a social scientist whose work examines how authoritarian power adapts in the digital age and how civic actors respond. She is a Research Fellow at the German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA) in Hamburg and a full-time Assistant Professor at Chulalongkorn University’s Institute of Asian Studies in Bangkok. Her research spans protest movements, civil society and civic space, digital repression, disinformation lawfare, and influence operations across Southeast Asia. She currently leads several international research projects on democratic resilience and information integrity. Her upcoming book is A Thousand Cuts: Digital Repression and Pro-democracy Movements in Thailand (Wisconsin University Press, January 2027).