Associate Researcher at the Leibniz Institute for Media Research | Hans-Bredow-Institut (HBI) since 2022
Amélie Pia Hennemann-Heldt is a legal expert who worked as a research associate at the HBI in the research program “Transformation of Public Communication” from 2017 to 2021. Starting in 2020, she conducted research in the subproject “Integration Task and Integration Function of Public Service Media” as part of the Research Institute Social Cohesion (FGZ). Since January 2022, she has been a digital policy advisor in the Federal Chancellery.
Amélie Pia Hennemann-Heldt focuses on platform regulation, social media governance, the impact of new technologies on opinion formation and public discourse, and the perception of fundamental rights in the context of algorithmic decisions and autonomous systems. In her dissertation (funded by a doctoral scholarship from the Heinrich Böll Foundation), she examines the spillover effects of freedom of expression on social media platforms.
After studying law at the Universities of Paris Ouest Nanterre and Potsdam and completing additional studies in design thinking at the Hasso Plattner Institute, she completed her legal clerkship at the Berlin Court of Appeal.
Amélie Pia Hennemann-Heldt is associated with the Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (Berlin) and was a visiting fellow at the Information Society Project at Yale Law School (USA) in 2019 and a visiting researcher at the Center for Cyber, Law & Policy at Haifa University (Israel) in 2018. She was a member of the editorial board of the JuWiss blog (Young Scholars in Public Law).
