Xenia Ermoshina (ru)

Xenia Ermoshina is an Internet freedom activist and researcher, currently working at the Citizen Lab, at the University of Toronto. She is studying influences of the Russian-Ukrainian armed conflict on civil society organizations and the media, including digital security threats, Internet censorship and targeted surveillance. Her previous work at the Nextleap.eu research project was focused on studying usage of end-to-end encrypted messaging and email apps by high-risk users across the world, from Egypt and Syria to Austria and France.

Xenia is also a noise/drone musician and has a PhD in sociology from the Mines ParisTech Center for Sociology of Innovation.

Since 2016 she organizes inclusive, non-binary cryptoparties under the code name TransCyberian that unite experimental electronic music and crypto and promote decentralization and privacy for everyone.