POSITIONS

February 2025

• Professor of Political Communication and Journalism, University of Amsterdam 
• Associated researcher at the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society, Berlin

October 2020 - January 2025     

• Chair of Digital Democracy at the European New School of Digital Studies, European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder)

February 2018 - September 2020    

• Assistant Professor of Digital Communication, Institute of Journalism and Communication Studies, Freie Universität Berlin
• Head of the research group "News, Campaigns and the Rationality of Public Discourse," Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society, Berlin

October 2009 - January 2018     
Senior Research and Teaching Assistant at IKMZ - Institute for Communication Studies and Media Research, Department "Media & Politics" (Prof. Dr. Otfried Jarren), University of Zurich, Switzerland

September 2016 - January 2017     
Interim professor, Chair of Digital Communication, Zeppelin University Friedrichshafen, Germany
 
2007 - 2009                
Research Assistant, Institute of Political Science, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Chair of Political Science with a focus on Comparative Analysis of Liberal Democratic Systems and Theory of Democracy (Prof. Dr. Hans-Jürgen Puhle)


ACADEMIC EDUCATION

2010               
Dissertation "Media Monopolies and Defective Democracies: Pluralism Regulation and Democratic Quality in Italy and Mexico", Goethe University Frankfurt am Main

Dissertation Award of the German Political Science Association DVPW 2012

2001-2004       
Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Political Science, American Studies, History, Social Psychology

Diploma in December 2004
Diploma Thesis: Problems of Democratic Legitimacy in East Germany: Social and Economic Policy Outcomes and the Legitimacy of Political Systems.

1998-2001
Dresden University of Technology, Political Science, American Studies, Economic and Social History


FELLOWSHIPS AND VISITS ABROAD

September - December 2024
Senior Fellow, Thomas Mann House Los Angeles, USA

September 2021 - March 2022    
Visiting Scholar at the Center for Information Technology and Society CITS, University of California at Santa Barbara UCSB, USA

March - May 2017           
Visiting Scholar at the Center for Information Technology and Society CITS, University of California at Santa Barbara UCSB, USA

July - September 2013                            
Summer Fellow at HIIG - Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society, Berlin (July-September)

2006-2007                   
Several research activities in Italy (Università degli Studi di Milano, Università degli Studi di Perugia) and Mexico (Colegio de México, Mexico City)