Dr Velomahanina Razakamaharavo

I am a Research Fellow at the School of Philosophy, Politics and Economics (SPPE) at the University of Reading. Previously, I was a Lecturer/ Postdoctoral Fellow at the Hochschule für Politik München (HfP) at the Technical University of Munich (TUM). Before taking up that position, I was HfP’s Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow in Global Transformations for the academic year 2019/20. I am also a Scientific Collaborator at the Center for Political Science and Comparative Politics of UCLouvain Belgium. Prior to these, I was a Policy Leader Fellow at the School of Transnational Governance (STG) of the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, a Junior Visiting Researcher at the Department of Government of Uppsala University as well as the Department of Peace and Conflict Studies of Umeå University (the Varieties of Peace program), and a Visiting Fellow at the Center on Conflict Development and Peacebuilding (CCDP) at the Graduate Institute of Geneva. I was also a Visiting Researcher at the Université Catholique de Louvain’s Center for Political Science and Comparative Politics where I developed a methodology bridging Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) and in-depth narrative analysis, studying the dynamics of conflict transformation and recurrence. Finally, I was a Teaching Assistant in Comparative Research Design at the European Consortium of Political Research (ECPR) winter school.

One of my goals is to bridge theory and practice. I participate in various initiatives outside the academic world. I focus on a number of issues such as climate change, emerging technologies (e.g.: Artificial Intelligence), and gender. For example, I was a Digital Sherlock of the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab, a network of scholars and practitioners identifying, exposing, and explaining disinformation where and when it occurs using open source intelligence (OSINT) techniques and tools. We aim at  forging digital resilience. I am also an Expert and Contributor within the Global Wo-Men Hub in Belgium. I am a 2017 Women in International Security (WIIS) Next Generation Scholar.