Research Team Members

Sébastien Appiotti is Associate Professor at CELSA – Sorbonne University.
His research focuses on photographic practices in cultural contexts, the digital transformation of cultural institutions, and the Eurovision Song Contest.

He has conducted extensive fieldwork in France and abroad, in museums and cultural institutions such as the Grand Palais, MoMA, and the Smithsonian Institution.
Author of Prendre des photos au musée? (2022), he has also co-edited several collective volumes on semiotics and communication.

He is regularly invited by media outlets (France Culture, Libération, Huffington Post, M6, among others) as an expert on contemporary cultural practices.

Lisa Bolz is an Associate Professor at CELSA Sorbonne University. Her research focuses on media history, digital and international journalism, digital media cultures, and the Eurovision Song Contest.

PhD, graduate of cultural studies, art history and musicology, assistant professor at the University of Warsaw (Institute of Polish Culture, Section for Theatre and Performance). His research focuses on the cultural history of music and modern staging of opera. Recently he also has been developing projects on queer performances and the Eurovision Song Contest, especially in the context of Central and Eastern Europe.

Member of the Polish Society for Theatre Research, secretary of the Society between 2016 and 2020, the International Association for the Study of Popular Music – Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe branch, and the Organisation Générale des Amateurs de l’Eurovision.

Jonathan Hendrickx is Assistant Professor in Media Studies (Tenure Track) at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. A mixed-methods scholar, his research focuses on the relationship between journalism and social media platforms, news diversity in consolidated media markets and the Eurovision Song Contest.

Born and raised in Belgium, Hendrickx holds a BA in Applies Linguistics and a MA in Journalism from Leuven University and a PhD in Media and Communication Studies from Vrije Universiteit Brussel. He worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher in Journalism Studies at the University of Vienna (Austria) between 2022 and 2024. In 2023, he was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to pursue research at Penn State University (Pennsylvania).

Dr Korablyova received the habilitation (Dr. of sc.) degree from Taras Shevchenko National
University of Kyiv in 2015. She has conducted research and taught at Stanford University,
Sciences Po Lyon, University of Basel (URIS Programme), Institute for Human Sciences in
Vienna (IWM), and other prominent institutions. She has spoken and published widely on
post-Soviet transformations in Ukraine and the region, with a special focus on performative
politics and entangled imperial/colonial legacies.

In 2024-2025, Dr Korablyova was a co-PI on the CNRS-CU project “A Subaltern That Sings: From Sound Resistance to Musical Diplomacy in Wartime Ukraine”. In 2026, she is a co-PI on the SEED4EU+ project “ESCAPE: the Eurovision Song Contest as an Arena for Pluralism and Europeanness”, joining the ENCORE research network of scholars of the Eurovision Song Contest.

Mads is an assistant professor at University of Copenhagen in Denmark. In his research, he is especially interested in media industries and their creative processes - from TV production to video games and podcasts - and particularly in themes like creativity, autonomy, time management, working conditions, streaming services, reality TV, and ratings. In 2022, he published the book "Researching Creativity in Media Industries" (Rowman & Littlefield). Mads finished his PhD in 2019 and his dissertation was a production study of the digitalisation and the idea development processes at the Danish public-service youth TV channel DR3. He published in several international journals such as Media, Culture & Society, Convergence, Critical Studies in Television, and Nordicom Review. He is also the chair of the Media Industries division under NordMedia and a member of The Danish Radio and Television Board (2025-2028).

Christiane Wiesenfeldt obtained her PhD in 2005 from Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel with a thesis on the cello sonata in the 19th century, and completed her habilitation in 2011 at the University of Münster with a habilitation thesis on the Marian Mass in the 16th century. From 2012 to 2020, she was Professor of Musicology at the Franz Liszt University of Music in Weimar and at the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena (Chair at the Institute of Musicology). Since 2020, she has held the Chair of Musicology at the University of Heidelberg. Her research and publications focus on music, religion and liturgy in the early modern period; music history as a history of reception; musical concepts of Romanticism and Heimat; as well as phenomena such as the concept of the ‘work’ and self-reflection in music. For the past 15 years, she has been teaching and researching various phenomena in popular music, with her current focus on the Eurovision Song Contest.