Short bio
| Academic Positions | |
| since March 2022 | Leader research group Everyday Media at Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien, Tübingen |
| since April 2014 | Full Professor for Communication via Social Media at University of Tübingen / Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien, Tübingen |
| April 2013 – March 2022 | Leader junior research group Social Media at Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien, Tübingen |
| August 2012 – March 2013 | Associate Professor at the Department of Communication Science, VU University Amsterdam (3 days a week) |
| November 2011 – March 2013 | Associate Professor for Social Media and Reputation Management at the NHL Leeuwarden (2 days a week) |
| April 2004 – July 2012 | Assistant Professor for New Media at the Department of Communication Science, VU University Amsterdam (since November 2011 for 3 days a week) |
| October 2001 – March 2004 | Assistant Professor at the Department of Organizational and Social Psychology, Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany |
| April 2000 – September 2001 | Postdoc at the Department of Social Psychology, VU University Amsterdam |
| October 1999 – March 2000 | Research assistant at the Department of Organizational and Social Psychology, Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany |
| November 1996 – September 1999 | Research assistant at the Department of Economic and Social Psychology, Catholic University of Eichstätt, Germany |
| Education | |
| 1999 | Ph.D. in psychology Catholic University of Eichstätt, Department of Economic and Social Psychology Thesis: “Soziale Identifikation mit virtuellen Gemeinschaften – Bedingungen und Konsequenzen” [“Social Identification with Virtual Communities – Causes and Consequences”] Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Dr. Roland Wakenhut |
| 1996 | Diploma in Psychology Catholic University of Eichstätt Diploma thesis: “Kommunikationsstrukturen und Persoenlichkeitsaspekte bei MUD-Nutzern” [Communication Structures and Personality Aspects of MUD-Users] |
| 1991-1996 | Study of Psychology at the Catholic University of Eichstätt |
| Memberships | |
| European Association of Social Psychology (EASP), Deutsche Gesellschaft für Publizistik und Kommunikationswissenschaft (DGPuK) [German Society for Journalism and Communication Science], Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Psychologie (DGPs) [German Society for Psychology], Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP), International Communication Association (ICA) | |
| Reviewer | |
| Associate editor of Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication Member of the editorial board of Human Communication and Technology, Journal of Media Psychology; Media Psychology, Psychology of Popular Media Culture (from January 2020) Ad hoc reviewer for (among others) British Journal of Social Psychology, Communication Resarch, Computers in Human BehavioEuropean Journal of Social Psychology, Human Communication Research, Journal of Communication, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Self and Identity, New Media and Society, Zeitschrift fuer Sozialpsychologie, Wirtschaftspsychologie |