Anna Sophia is a Junior Researcher at the Leibniz-Institute for Media Research | Hans-Bredow-Institute and PhD candidate at the Humboldt University in Berlin. Her fields of research include Internet Governance, the relationship of states, non-state actors and individuals on the internet, the international law of statehood and international legal theory. In her PhD she explores if a new contouring of our understanding of the state under international law is both possible and necessary in the age of the Internet.