Ivan Fomichev is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Communication and Media Studies, University of Bern, working on the SNSF-funded project "Through a Glass, Darkly: How to Study Authoritarian Regimes".
He received his PhD in Political and Social Sciences from the European University Institute in Florence in 2025. His dissertation investigates how political information — such as signals of regime electoral vulnerability, public dissent, and war fatalities — shapes citizens' political responses in authoritarian regimes. In Fall 2022, he was a visiting assistant in research at the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale University.
Ivan holds a BS in Political Science from Saint Petersburg State University and an MS in Political Science from the European University at Saint Petersburg, both with honors.
