Marielle-Sophie Düh

Marielle is a PhD candidate at the Hertie School’s Centre for Digital Governance and a Research Fellow at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin (WZB). She is part of the joint research group “Politics of Digitalization”, organized by the WZB in collaboration with the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society (Technology, Power, and Domination unit). Her research is comparative and examines how China and the European Union pursue digital sovereignty in Artificial Intelligence.

She is also a GIZ and BMDS Fellow for International Digital Policy. 

In 2025, she received the FU Prize for Best Teaching (Institute for Journalism and Communication Studies, Department of Political and Social Sciences) and the Tencent Driving Social Impact Award.

Marielle holds a BA in Communication Science and China Studies and an MA in Big Data in Culture and Society from King’s College London. 

She has lived, worked, and studied in Austria, China, Germany, South Africa, and the UK. Before joining the WZB, she gathered work experience in the cultural department of the Goethe-Institut in Beijing and contributed to the re:publica programme team as a curator for science and technology.