Katerina Sharova is a PhD candidate in the program of Political and Social Sciences at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, and predoc research fellow in the framework of the REPGOV project. 

Katerina holds a Master's degree in International Public Policy at Fudan University, China and a specialist degree in Economics at St. Petersburg State University of Economics, Russia. Previously, she worked in the non-profit sector in the US, Russia and Spain and held the position of Information Managers Officer for Nutrition with UNICEF Venezuela. Katerina's primary research interests are democratic values, democratic institutions, and quantitative research methods.