Teresa is a postdoctoral researcher at the Amsterdam School of Communication Research, primarily working on the BENEDMO project, a Flemish-Dutch collaboration tackling disinformation. In this project, she studies the impact of emerging forms of disinformation, including AI-generated visuals, and is involved in policy analysis concerning social media platforms’ compliance with the Code of Practice on Disinformation. Teresa holds a PhD in Communication Science from the University of Vienna, where she has lived from 2021 to 2024. Before that, she completed a master’s degree in journalism, Media and Globalization at Aarhus University and the University of Amsterdam, and worked as a lecturer at the Amsterdam College of Communication. Her research interests include deepfakes, visual disinformation, fact-checking, and visual political communication.

Research expertise

• Visual Disinformation
• Mis- and Disinformation
• Deepfakes
• Visual Political Communication
• Fact-checking

Other links

• Affiliated with the AI, Media and Democracy Lab
• Part of BENEDMO

Research methods

• Theory building
• Experiments
• Interviews

Research grants & honours

• sowi:docs Dissertation award of the University of Vienna The award is given by the Faculty of Social Sciences to doctoral graduates for outstanding research contributions in their doctoral theses
• sowi:docs Fellowship (three year fully funded PhD position) of the Department of Communication, University of Vienna for the project “Getting real with fakes: Characteristics and consequences of ‘deepfakes’ in democracies”

BA

• Introduction to Communication Science
• Methods of Communication Research and Statistics
• Political Communication and Journalism
• Research Workshop: Survey
• Research Workshop: Content Analysis
• Internship Supervision
• Philosophy of Science and Methodology