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Nicole Bizzotto

Nicole Bizzotto, MSc

  • Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin / Academic Associate
Phone
+41 44 635 20 40
Room number
AND 3.26

Research Interests

  • Effects of mental health content on social media 

  • Mental health misinformation 

  • Online health communities 

  • Online health advice 

  • Patient empowerment 

  • Selective media exposure 

  • Open science and Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement (PPIE) 

2025  Postdoctoral researcher 
Media Psychology & Methods Division at IKMZ (Department of Communication and Media Research), University of Zurich (Switzerland)
2024  Visiting researcher 
Institute for Mediated Communication, Technische Universität Berlin (Germany)
2023-2024  Visiting researcher 
Research Group Media & ICT, Department of Communication, Antwerp University (Belgium) 

 

2025 

PhD in Communication 
Faculty of Communication, Culture and Society, Università della Svizzera italiana, Lugano (Switzerland) 

2020 

MSc Cognitive Psychology in Health Communication 
Università della Svizzera Italiana (Lugano, Switzerland) and Vita-Salute San Raffaele University (Milan, Italy) 

2017 

BSc Cognitive Psychology 
University of Trento (Italy) 

2017 

Single courses 
University of Padova (Italy) 

2015 

Erasmus+ program visiting student 
University of Nice Sophia Antipolis (France) 

2021  

Swiss National Science Foundation Doc.CH Grant (CHF 243,050) 

2024 

International Communication Association Michael L. Haley Travel Grant ($ 1,250) 

2023 

Schweizerische Akademie der Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften Travel Grant (CHF 1,000) 

2020 

Accepted into Bernardo Clesio Honours Programme of Excellence for a M.Sc. in Psychology at University of Trento (Italy), declined 

2024 

Selected for the IMPACT Flashtalks on Mis/Disinformation, American Psychological Association conference taking place from August 8-10, 2024, in Seattle (USA) 

2020 

Università della Svizzera italiana (Lugano, Switzerland) Master Award: "Student with higher GPA" (CHF 4, 000) 

2017 

University of Trento (Italy) Bachelor Award, Recognition for outstanding academic achievement and public speech as "Best Graduate in Academic year 2016-2017" at Graduation Ceremony