Jasmin Dall'Agnola has been a Senior Research and Teaching Associate in the Media & Internet Governance Division at the Department of Communication and Media Research (IKMZ), University of Zurich, since February 2025. She holds a PhD in Political Science from Oxford Brookes University, United Kingdom. Prior to that she was a postdoctoral researcher at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich’s (ETH Zurich) Department of Humanities, Social and Political Science (2024–2025). She also served as a postdoctoral visiting scholar at George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs in Washington, DC (2023) and the OSCE Academy in Bishkek (2022). Since 2023, Jasmin Dall’Agnola has served as an Associate Editor for Central Asian Survey, a leading peer-reviewed journal in the field of Central Asian Studies.

Jasmin Dall’Agnola’s research and teaching interests focus on the societal impacts of the Internet and smart city technologies. As a mixed-method scholar, she is particularly interested in how governments and tech corporations leverage smart and Internet technologies for mass surveillance and control in both democratic and authoritarian societies. She has authored numerous peer-reviewed articles and co-edited special issues for leading journals, including Surveillance & Society, Swiss Political Science Review, and The Journal of Illiberalism Studies, on these issues.

Her forthcoming book, Smart Cities in Central Asia: Digital Dreams and Authoritarian Realities (under peer-review with Bristol University Press), offers a compelling ethnographic account of how Internet and smart technologies shape daily life and governance in authoritarian contexts. In recognition of her contributions to the study of Internet and smart city governance, she has received several awards from the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), including an SNSF Postdoc.Mobility Fellowship (Grant number: 202939, 2021–2023) and an SNSF Return CH Postdoc.Mobility Fellowship (Grant number: 222076, 2024–2025).