About
Snehashree Mukherjee is a PhD candidate at the School of Political Science, University of Haifa, affiliated with the Political Psychology Lab, under the supervision of Prof. Daphna Canetti and Prof. Itzik Ben Israel (Tel Aviv University).
Her doctoral research, "A Mind Simulated by Artificial Intelligence: In the Context of Terrorism," examines how exposure to terrorism increasingly mediated through AI-generated content, deepfakes, and coordinated bot activity on cyber platforms shapes individual psychological distress, threat perception, and political attitudes.
Snehashree brings a distinctly interdisciplinary background, spanning a B.Tech in Bioinformatics, an International Master's in Security and Diplomacy (TATA Scholar, Tel Aviv University), and an M.A. in Government and Politics (cum laude, University of Haifa). Prior to academia, she worked as a journalist in India, last serving as a conflict and investigative reporter.