Petra Radic is a PhD candidate in Comparative Politics (minor in Social Science Methodology) at Central European University (CEU) and a Research Fellow at the Center for Global Democracy, Brooks School of Public Policy, Cornell University.
Her research focuses on political communication, political psychology, and psycholinguistics, examining how political messaging shapes public opinion and political behavior under conditions of democratic backsliding. Methodologically, she works at the intersection of computational social science and causal inference, combining large-scale text analysis with experimental and survey-based approaches.
Before her PhD, Petra worked on research projects at leading institutions including Cambridge University, the Alan Turing Institute, LSE, Stanford University, and more.
At CEU, she teaches and supports courses in quantitative research methods and statistics, case study research, political communication, and democratic backsliding.