Daniela Stockmann is Professor of Digital Governance at the Hertie School in Berlin, Germany. Her current research focuses on social media governance in China, Europe, and the United States. She received a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (2007) and an MA in Chinese Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies, London (2001). Before joining the Hertie School faculty, she was Associate Professor of Political Science at Leiden University. Her book, Media Commercialization and Authoritarian Rule in China (Cambridge University Press, 2013), received the 2015 Goldsmith Book Prize awarded by the Harvard Kennedy School Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics, and Public Policy. Her latest project, funded by a Starting Grant of the European Research Council (ERC), explores the impact of technological design of social media platforms on user behavior regarding politics. Beyond her academic work, she has served as advisor to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the Netherlands and to German President Steinmeier during his 2018 visit to China and on social media governance in 2021.