Associated Researcher at Leibniz Institute for Media Research | Hans-Bredow Institut (HBI) since 2022
Amélie Heldt is a lawyer by training and worked as a researcher at the Leibniz Institute for Media Research | Hans Bredow Institute (HBI) in the research program
"Transformation of Public Communication" from May 2017 until the end of 2021. Since December 2020, she had been part of the sub-project
"Integration-Related Remit and Functions of Public Service Media" within the FGZ (Institute for the Research of Social Cohesion). Since 2022 she is Digital Policy Advisor at the
German Federal Chancellery.
Her research focuses on platform regulation, social media governance, the impact of new technologies on opinion formation and public discourse, and the exercise of fundamental rights in the context of algorithmic decision-making and autonomous systems. In her doctoral dissertation, she examines the horizontal effect of freedom of expression on social media platforms (supported by the Heinrich Böll Foundation with an individual doctoral grant).
After studying law at the Universities of Paris Ouest Nanterre and Potsdam and design-thinking at the Hasso Plattner Institute, she completed her legal clerkship at the Berlin Supreme Court.
Amélie Heldt is also 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.
