Krisztina Burai completed her BA in Political Science at Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) in 2020, followed by an MA in Communication and Media Studies at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME). During her studies, she participated in multiple research projects at the Centre for Social Sciences, as well as in international collaborations. Since 2022, she has been working as a junior research fellow at the HUN-REN Centre for Social Sciences. In the same year, she also began her PhD at the Doctoral School of Political Science at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. Her research focuses on political communication, with an emphasis on social media, news consumption, and news avoidance.