Former employees

Prof. Dr. Niels Mede
PhD student (until 2022) and Senior Research and Teaching Associate (until 2025) at IKMZ. Now Assistant Professor of Science Communication at Wageningen University.

Dr. Isabel Sörensen
PhD student at the IKMZ until 2024.

Dr. Silke Fürst
Research assistant and postdoctoral scholar in IKMZ's science communication team until 2023, now Senior Research and Teaching Associate at the Research Center for the Public Sphere and Society (fög).

Prof. Dr. Jing Zeng
Senior Researcher in IKMZ's science communication team until 2022, then Assistant Professor of Digital Methods and Critical Data Studies at Utrecht University. Now Professor of Computational Social and Communication Science at IKMZ.

Dr. Valerie Hase
PhD student at the IKMZ until 2022, since 2022 Postdoctoral Researcher at the LMU Munich (Department of Communication and Media Research).

Dr. Tobias Füchslin
PhD student at the IKMZ until 2019, untill 2020 senior researcher of the expert group "Communicating Sciences and Arts in Times of Digital Media", since 2021 project manager at media pulse. Now Data Analyst at Bayerischer Rundfunk.

Dr. Tobias Keller
PhD student at the IKMZ until 2019, since 2020 project manager and member of the board of directors at gfs.bern.

Prof. Dr. Senja Post
Senior Researcher in IKMZ's science communication team until 2018, now Full Professor of Science Communication at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT).

Prof. Dr. Adrian Rauchfleisch
Doctoral student and Postdoctoral Research Fellow at IKMZ's science communication team until 2018, now Associate Professor at the National Taiwan University.

Prof. Dr. Julia Metag
Postdoctoral Research Fellow in IKMZ's science communication team until 2016, now Full Professor of Communication Sciences at the University of Münster (Department of Communication).

Prof. Dr. Silje Kristiansen
Doctoral student and Postdoc in IKMZ's science communication team until 2015, now Associate Professor at the University of Bergen.

Dr. Ana Ivanova
Doctorate in Mike S. Schäfer’s Research Group “Media Constructions of Climate Change” at the University of Hamburg, now vice-head of analysis and consulting at Argus Data Insights.

Dr. Andreas Schmidt
Doctorate in Mike S. Schäfer’s Research Group “Media Constructions of Climate Change” at the University of Hamburg, now project manager at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) for Climate Governance, Climate Communication and Sustainable Development.

Dr. Inga Schlichting
Doctorate in Mike S. Schäfer’s Research Group “Media Constructions of Climate Change” at the University of Hamburg, now Senior Analyst Corporate Strategy at Deutsche Bahn, Berlin.