Max Groemping is senior lecturer at the School of Government and International Relations at Griffith University. His key research interests include disinformation, electoral integrity, and lobbying in different political regime contexts. He previously worked as lecturer at Heidelberg University (Germany), research associate at the Electoral Integrity Project, University of Sydney (Australia), and instructor in international relations at Thammasat University (Thailand). He was also visiting Research Fellow at the Social Science Center Berlin (WZB) in 2016-2017. Max is an associate editor for the journal Democratization. He is co-editor of Lobbying the Autocrat (University of Michigan Press, 2023). His work has been published in Political Communication, Comparative Political Studies, Governance, Party Politics, and Policy Sciences, among others.