ACADEMIC POSITIONS

03/2020—Present
Professor of Journalism and Media Management, Faculty 'Culture, Media, Psychology',  Macromedia University of Applied Sciences, Leipzig
10/2019—03/2020 
Visiting professor, Department of Media and Communication, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) München/Germany
2017—2020
Post-doc position, Department of Media and Communication, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden/Germany
2017 
Visiting professor, Department of Media and Communication, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden/Germany
2014—2016
Post-doctoral research fellow (DAAD), School of Communication, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH/USA
2014
Post-doctoral researcher (BMBF), Department of Media and Communication, Universität Hohenheim, Stuttgart/Germany
2011—2014
Graduate associate, Department of Media and Communication, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden/Germany.
2008—2011
Ph.D. scholarship student (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes)
2007—2008
Graduate associate, Department of Media and Communication, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden/Germany

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE 

Since 2024: Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the interdisciplinary research project “REASON - Responses to threat- and solution-oriented climate news” (University of Graz, PI: Marie Kogler)
Since 2024: Member of the Quality-of-Education committee at Macromedia University
2024: Member of the Selection Committee for study scholarships, sdw (Stiftung der Deutschen Wirtschaft)
Since 2021: Member of the Senate at Macromedia University
Since 2019: Member of the Editorial Board of 'Media and Communication'
2019—2023: Germany's National Representative in the World Association for Public Opinion Research (WAPOR)
2018–2019: Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the European Capital of Culture initiative, City of Dresden
2017, 2018, 2023: Jury member of the "Jugendredeforum" (Youth Speech Forum), State Parliament of Saxony
2010, 2012, 2021: Member of the Selection Committee for study scholarships, Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes

REVIEWER ACTIVITIES

Reviewer activities for peer-reviewed academic journals: American Behavioral Scientist, Analyse & Kritik, Communication Research, Communication Theory, Digital Journalism, Digital Threats: Research and Practice, Human Communication Research, Information, Communication, and Society, International Journal of Public Opinion Research, Journalism, Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Journal of Communication, Journal of International Communication, Journal of Media Psychology, Media and Communication, Media Psychology, Mobile Media & Communication, New Media & Society, Political Communication, Publizistik, M&K - Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft, SCM - Studies in Communication and Media, Social Media + Society, The International Journal of Press/Politics, Translational Issues in Psychological Science
Reviewer activities for academic conferences: Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC), Deutsche Gesellschaft for Publizistik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft (DGPuK), European Media Management Association (emma), International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR), International Communication Association (ICA), World Association for Public Opinion Research (WAPOR)
Reviewer activities for award committees, grant applications, & research proposals: Center for Advanced Internet Studies (CAIS), Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions COFUND (European Union), Naomi C. Turner Award Committee (WAPOR), SoSci-Panel 

ACADEMIC AWARDS (team efforts)

2022 Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Association (MeCCSA)
Journal Article of the Year Award for Sourcing pandemic news
2021 ICA Political Communication Division
Top Faculty Paper for How smartphones affect political knowledge gains from episodic and thematic frames in a news feed
2021 ICA Journalism Studies Division
Honorary Mention - Wolfgang Donsbach Outstanding Journal Article of the Year Award for Investigating the gap between newspaper journalists' role conceptions and role performance in nine European, Asian, and Latin American countries
2013 Technische Universität Dresden
Best dissertation award 2012, Faculty of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences