Leonie Maria Tanczer is PhD Research Student at the School of Politics, International Studies and Philosophy, Queen’s University Belfast (UK). She studied Political Science (B.A.) at the University Vienna and University of Limerick (Republic of Ireland) and Political Psychology (MSc.) at the Queen’s University Belfast. Tanczer is currently working on her interdisciplinary PhD project »Emerging Security Governance in the Cyber Domain: Technology, Politics, and Rights in Practice”. Her thesis investigates emerging internet governance strategies, looking closely at the possibility to re-articulate political rights online. She was previously Fellow at the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (January to March 2015, Berlin) and has published on issues such as the Pirate Party of Austria, online sexism, hacktivism and gender stereotypes.