Her research interests include the democratic implications of social media, the representation of future generations as well as border politics.

Dr Brändle joined the Department in April 2023. She was previously a Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Communication at the University of Vienna. Prior to that she held Postdoctoral positions in several international research projects at the University of Copenhagen and the University of Siegen.

In 2020 she was awarded a DFF-International Postdoctoral Grant from the Independent Research Fund Denmark for a project entitled ‘Informing to dissuade: Governments’ digital information campaigns for migrants as bordering practices’. She was also a Visiting Fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies of the European University Institute and a PhD Visiting Fellow at the Humboldt-University in Berlin.