Shreyas Meher
Postdoctoral researcher at Erasmus University Rotterdam. I study how governments control information online, and how democratic institutions erode.
On the TWIN4DEM project (Horizon Europe), I build machine learning models of democratic resilience and executive aggrandizement in parliamentary democracies. My broader work uses fine-tuned language models and causal research designs to study censorship, digital governance, and political conflict, including the NSF-funded ConfliBERT family of models.
My research has appeared in Political Analysis, Research & Politics, and Behavioral Sciences. I received my Ph.D. in Public Policy & Political Economy from the University of Texas at Dallas in 2025.
meher@essb.eur.nl
Rotterdam, the Netherlands