Professor
Institut für Kommunikationswissenschaft und Medienforschung
Science communication and journalism • Risk and crisis communication • Trust research
Office address:
Akademiestraße 7
Room 611
80799 München
Office hours:
after request
since 10/2023: Professor of Communication Science with a focus on Crisis and Risk Communication in Digital Media Environments at the Department of Media and Communication • LMU Munich
02/2023-04/2023: Visiting Lecturer at the “Understanding Public Engagement with Science” lab at the Israel Institute of Technology (Technion) in Haifa • Israel
06/2019-09/2023: Senior Research Associate in the DFG-funded cluster of excellence “Climate • Climatic Change • and Society“ • Universität Hamburg; project leader of a DFG-funded project on "The trust relationship between science and digitized publics" (TruSDi I)
in parallel since 04/2021: Extraordinary Associate Professor at the Centre for Research on Evaluation • Science and Technology • Stellenbosch University (South Africa)
10/2020-09/2021: Interim professorship for communication studies with a focus on communication theories • media systems • and communication policy • at LMU Munich
in parallel 01/2018-12/2020: Extraordinary Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Research on Evaluation • Science and Technology • Stellenbosch University (South Africa)
08/2017-05/2019: Research and Lecturing Associate at the Institute of Communication Research at Friedrich Schiller University Jena
in parallel 01/2016-02/2019: Spokesperson of PhD students of the science communication group of the German Communication Association (DGPuK)
08/2015-07/2017: Postdoc at the Research Chair in Science Communication at the Centre for Research on Evaluation • Science and Technology (CREST) at at Stellenbosch University (South Africa)
01/2015: Dissertation entitled “The coverage of (un)certainty: Science journalists' perceptions and reporting on scientific evidence” (Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Georg Ruhrmann • Prof. Dr. Michaela Maier • Prof. Dr. Rainer Bromme)
09/2010-07/2015: Research and Lecturing Associate at the Institute of Communication Research at Friedrich Schiller University Jena • work in DFG-funded projects within the special priority program “Science and the public”
2005-2010: Student of media studies • newest history and German literature at Friedrich Schiller University Jena and University of Erfurt
2007-2010: Student assistant and tutor at the Institute of Communication Research • assistant in DFG-funded research projects
2002-2010: Traineeships and free-lance journalist for several daily newspapers • TV and radio stations • and the news agency dpa