Paula Montano

PhD Researcher | AI Enthusiast

Welcome! I am a PhD researcher at the School of Politics and International Relations at University College Dublin. My research interests lie in the intersection of political communication, EU politics, and computational social science.

My PhD project analyses strategic political communication in EU institutions during crises using NLP and quantitative methods, such as machine learning and large language models, to analyse textual data and identify causal relationships.

I am also a contributor and research assistant in the Irish Polling Indicator project, and a co-author of the Irish Demographic Polling Data and the Irish Local and European Elections Manifestos.

Feel free to reach out to explore collaboration opportunities or to share PhD journey experiences. Check more about my research, teaching and CV.