Ekaterina (Katya) Pavlova is a PhD student at the Faculty of Music and a Cambridge Trust scholar. Her PhD research is dedicated to musical-cultural exchanges between the Soviet Union and the German Democratic Republic which she approaches from the perspective of cultural diplomacy, identity-making, and Cold War politics and propaganda. Katya is fluent in English, Russian, German and Italian and is currently learning Chinese (Mandarin) and French. She has also recently taken up coding which she finds really fascinating and fulfilling. You can connect with her on Twitter and LinkedIn.
