Meet our Team

On leave

Dr. Daniela Apaydin

Research Associate

Contact
Tel.: (+43 1) 319 72 58-21
E-Mail: d.apaydin@idm.at

General Tasks

Head of Publications, Editor-in-chief „Info Europa“

Expertise

In her research, Daniela focuses on the history of the Cold War and the democratic transformations in Central Eastern Europe, particularly in Hungary. For the previous years, she has investigated processes of Europeanisation of civil society and wrote her dissertation on environmentalist networks across the Iron Curtain.

Country expertise

Visegrád states, esp. Hungary

Language skills

Basic knowledge of French, Hungarian, Russian and Turkish

Fluent in English

German (mother tongue)

Professional experience

Daniela has been a research associate at the Institute for the Danube Region and Central Europe (IDM) in Vienna since 2018.

Previously, she worked for more than ten years in the media and communications industry, particularly in the areas of print and online journalism, science communication and project management.

Education

Daniela Apaydin studied Journalism and Corporate Communications in Graz and St. Petersburg (2007-2011). In 2015, she obtained a postgraduate Master in Central European Studies from Andrássy University Budapest, where she also defended her PhD thesis with summa cum laude.

Publications

(Selection)

20.05.2022, together with Sebastian Schäffer, Nationwide Strategy for Civic Education, Guest Commentary, Die Presse

01.04.2022, Putin in the Hungarian election campaign, Der Standard, Eastblog.

Neubacher, Daniela (2020), Wetlands of Protest: Seeking Transnational Trajectories in Hungary’s Environmental Movement, in: Christian Wenkel, Eric Bussi re et. al (eds.):The Environment and the European PublicSphere: Perceptions, Actors, Policies. WhiteHorse Press, Winwick.

20.12.2021, When the Green Deal is No Deal(EN)l, Fair Observer.

06.12.2021, Polarization is no magic (DE), International Politics, online exclusive.

Marzec, Wiktor; Neubacher, Daniela (2020), Civil society under pressure: historical legacies and current responses in Central Eastern Europe, in Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe, 28:1, 1-6, DOI: 10.1080/25739638.2020.1812931.