Polina Kolozaridi is a social researcher focusing on the internet. Her key research interest is how do we know, feel, anticipate and imagine technologies. She is from Tomsk, Siberia. Polina coordinates a grassroots community of researchers (academic and not very academic ones) called a club for internet and society enthusiasts. Together with the club Polina organises initiative research projects and acts as a knowledge activist. She teaches at the university Higher school of economics and other universities, the courses are about internet studies, amateur online media, and critical data studies.

Polina has a Ph.D. in Sociology, has stayed as a visiting scholar in different European Universities, such as King's College London, University of Bremen, University of Helsinki. She also works with the problem of people and technologies as an artist and curator.