Yulia Yurtaeva-Martens studied History, Film and Media Studies in Berlin and Potsdam. She works as a research fellow at the Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf in Potsdam at the Faculty of Media Stduies and is doing her Ph.D. on the network Intervision and its activities during the Cold War. Her research focuses on (East-)European communication history, TV-Festivals and Song Contest’s.

Yuila is visiting CTMR / the department of Media Studies and Journalism from March 18-23 funded by the ERASMUS Mobility Grant.