Postdocs Promoted to Professors

Prof. Dr. Sina Blassnig
Until 2023 Senior Research and Teaching Associate at IKMZ. 2023 appointment to the professorship in Digital Communication and Datafication at the Department of Communication and Media Research (DCM) of the University of Fribourg in cooperation with the University of Applied Sciences of the Grisons.

Prof. Dr. Thomas Zerback
Until 2023 Assistant Professor at IKMZ. 2023 appointment to a professorship at Heinrich-Heine-Universität in Düsseldorf for Communication and Media Research, particularly Democratic Decision-Making.

Prof. Dr. Jing Zeng
Until 2022 Senior Research and Teaching Associate at IKMZ. Became 2022 Assistant Professor of Digital Methods and Critical Data Studies at Utrecht University.
 

Prof. Dr. Will Marler
Until 2022 Senior Research and Teaching Associate at IKMZ. Became 2022 Assistant Professor at the Department of Communication and Cognition at the Tilburg University.
 

Prof. Dr. Sarah Marschlich
Until 2022 Senior Research and Teaching Associate at IKMZ. Became 2022 Assistant Professor at the Amsterdam School for Communication Research, University of Amsterdam.

Prof. Dr. Minh Hao Nguyen
Until 2019 Senior Research and Teaching Associate at IKMZ. Became 2022 Assistant Professor at the Amsterdam School for Communication Research, University of Amsterdam.

Prof. Dr. Edda Humprecht
Until 2022 Senior Research and Teaching Associate at IKMZ. Became 2022 Professor of Media Sociology, esp. Digitalization, Information Technologies and Social Change at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU).

Prof. Dr. Laia Castro Herrero
Until 2021 Senior Research and Teaching Associate at IKMZ. Became 2021 Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science and Constitutional Law at the University of Barcelona.

Prof. Dr. Juliane Lischka
Until 2020 Senior Research and Teaching Associate at IKMZ. Became 2020 Professor of Journalism and Communication Studies, particularly Digital Journalism, at the University of Hamburg.

Prof. Dr. Senja Post
Until 2018 Senior Research and Teaching Associate at IKMZ. Became 2018 Professor of Life Science Communication at the University of Göttingen.
 

Dr. Colin Porlezza
Until 2018 Senior Research and Teaching Associate at IKMZ. Became 2018 Senior Lecturer in Journalism at the Department of Journalism der City, University of London.
 

Prof. Dr. Ulrike Klinger
Until 2018 Senior Research and Teaching Associate at IKMZ. Became 2018 Professor of Media and Communication Science at the FU Berlin.
 

Prof. Dr. Adrian Rauchfleisch
Until 2018 Postdoctoral Scholar at IKMZ. Became 2018 Assistant Professurship in «Amsterdam School of Communication Research» at the University of Amsterdam.
 

Prof. Dr. Sven Engesser
Until 2017 Senior Research and Teaching Associate at IPMZ. Became 2017 Professor of Scientific and Technological Communication at the Technical University of Dresden (TUD)’s Institute of Media & Communication.

Prof. Dr. Natascha Just
Until 2016 Senior Research and Teaching Associate at IPMZ. Became 2017 Associate Professor at the Department of Media and Information at Michigan State University (MSU).
 

Prof. Dr. Julia Metag
Until 2016 Senior Research and Teaching Associate at IPMZ. Became 2016 Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Fribourg, Department of Communication and Media Research (DCM).

Prof. Dr. Katharina Kleinen-von Königslöw
Until 2016 Assistant Professor at IPMZ. Became 2016 Professor of Digitalized Communication and Sustainability at the University of Hamburg, Institute of Journalism and Communication Studies.

Prof. Dr. Björn von Rimscha
Until 2015 Senior Research and Teaching Associate at IPMZ. Became 2015 Professor of Media Economics at the Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz.
 

Prof. Dr. Michael Brüggemann
Until 2014 Senior Research and Teaching Associate at IPMZ. Became 2015 Professor of Communication Studies, particularly climate and scientific communication, at the University of Hamburg’s Institute of Journalism and Communication Studies.

Prof. Dr. Christian Schemer
Until 2014 Senior Research and Teaching Associate at IPMZ. Became 2014 Professor of General Communication Studies at the Department of Communication at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz.

Prof. Dr. Matthias Künzler
Until 2013 Senior Research and Teaching Associate at IPMZ. Became 2014 Professor and Head of Research at the Institute for Multimedia Production (IMP) at the Chur University of Applied Sciences (HTW Chur).

Prof. Dr. Rinaldo Kühne
Until 2013 Assistant at IPMZ. Became 2013 Assistant Professor in the “Youth & Media Entertainment” program group «Youth & Media Entertainment» at the «Amsterdam School of Communication Research» at  University of Amsterdam.

Prof. Dr. Thomas N. Friemel
Until 2013 Senior Research and Teaching Associate at IPMZ. Became 2013 Professor of Media and Communication Studies at the Center for Media, Communication and Information Research (ZeMKI) at the University of Bremen.

Prof. Dr. Manuel Puppis
Until 2013 Senior Research and Teaching Associate at IPMZ. Became 2013 Professor of Media Structures and Systems at the University of Fribourg’s Department of Media and Communication Studies.

Prof. Dr. Jörg Matthes
Until 2009 Senior Research and Teaching Associate at IPMZ. Became 2009 Assistant Professor at the IPMZ, NCCR Democracy and also became 2011 Professor of Advertising Research at the Department of Mass Communication and Communication Studies at the University of Vienna.

Prof. Dr. Holger Schramm
Until 2010 Senior Assistant at IPMZ. Became 2010 Professor of Media and Economic Communication at the University of Würzburg.
 

Prof. Dr. Josef Trappel
Until 2010 Head of IPMZ Transfer. Became 2010 Professor in the subject field of Communication Studies at the University of Salzburg.
 

Prof. Dr. Thomas Hanitzsch
Until 2009 Senior Assistant at IPMZ. Became 2010 Professor at the Department of Communication and Media Research at the Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich.
 

Prof. Dr. Edzard Schade
Until 2009 Research Assistant at IPMZ. Became 2010 Professor in the subject field of the Information Sciences at the Chur University of Applied Sciences.
 

Prof. Dr. Alessia C. Neuroni
Until 2007 Assistant at IPMZ. Became 2009 Professor of Business Information Technology at the E-Government Institute at the Bern University of Applied Science.
 

Prof. Dr. Patrick Donges
Until 2009 Senior Assistant and Assistant Professor at IPMZ. Became 2009 Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Greifswald.
 

Prof. Dr. Urs Dahinden
Until 2009 Research Assistant at IPMZ. Became 2009 Professor in the subject field of the Information Sciences at the Chur University of Applied Sciences.
 

Prof. Dr. Susanne Fengler
Until 2006 Senior Assistant at IPMZ. Became 2008 Professor at the Institute for Journalism at the Technical University of Dortmund.
 

Prof. Dr. Frank Lobigs
Until 2007 Senior Assistant at IPMZ. Became 2007 Professor at the Institute for Journalism at the Technical University of Dortmund.
 

Prof. Dr. Ulrike Röttger
Until 2003 Senior Assistant at IPMZ. Became 2003 Professor at the University of Münster’s Department of Communication Studies.
 

Prof. Dr. Vinzenz Wyss
Until 2003 Research Assistant at IPMZ. Became 2003 Professor of Journalism and Media Research at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences.
 

Prof. Dr. Daniel Süss
Until 2001 Senior Assistant at IPMZ. Became 2002 Professor of Communication and Media Psychology at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences.