Research

• Best Paper Award of the DGPuK Division “Media Reception and Effects” 2022
• Best Paper Awards (2x) of the DGPuK Division “Media Reception and Effects” 2020
• Competitive Paper Award of the ICA Game Studies Interest Group (2nd place) 2014
• Best Thesis Award of the Department of Media and Communication for a M.A. thesis
• Best Thesis Award of the Department of Media and Communication for a B.A. thesis

Teaching

• FSR-Phil Award for Teaching in the Category “Best Communication”, winter term 2020/21 (awarded by the Student Council of the Faculty of Arts, Humanities, and Social Science, TU Dresden)
• 2 Awards for Excellence in Teaching at the Department of Media and Communication (LMU Munich), winter term 2018/19
• Award for Excellence in Teaching at the Department of Media and Communication (LMU Munich), summer term 2015
• Award for Excellence in Teaching at the Department of Media and Communication (LMU Munich), summer term 2014

Current Positions

• Member of the Editorial Board, Communication Theory (since 04/2024)
• Member of the Scientific Advisory Board for the Project “Austrian News Media Infrastructures”, Austrian Academy of Sciences (since 11/2022)
• Member of the Editorial Board, Digital Journalism (since 01/2020)

Past Positions

• Member of the Faculty Board of the Faculty of Arts, Humanities, and Social Science, TU Dresden (12/2021 - 09/2024)
• Member of the Advisory Board for TU Dresden’s Teaching Strategy “Lehrstrategie sTUDium 3.0” (03/2023 - 03/2024)
• Secretary of the Division “Communication & Technology” of the International Communication Association (06/2020 - 05/2023)
• Co-Chair of the Division “Media Reception and Effects” of the German Communication Association (02/2021 - 01/2023)
• Member of the Advisory Board, Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft (02/2021 - 01/2023)
• Representative of the Academic Staff, Department of Media and Communication, LMU Munich (10/2016 - 10/2019)
• Youth Representative of the Division “Media Reception and Effects” of the German Communication Association (08/2017 - 08/2019)

Reviews

• Journals: Acta Politica, Annals of the International Communication Association, Behaviour & Information Technology, Big Data & Society, Communication Research, Communication Research Reports, Communication Theory, Computers in Human Behavior, Digital Journalism, Frontiers in Psychology, Human Communication Research, Information, Communication & Society, International Journal of Communication, International Journal of Public Opinion Research, Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, Journal of Communication, Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management, Journal of Information Technology & Politics, Journal of Media Psychology, Journalism, Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Journalism Practice, Journalism Studies, Mass Communication and Society, Media and Communication, Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft, Mobile Media & Communication, New Media & Society, Political Communication, Public Opinion Quarterly, Publizistik, Social Media + Society, SCM – Studies in Communication and Media, SComS – Studies in Communication Sciences, The International Journal of Press/Politics
• Professional Associations: Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA), Annual Conference of the German Communication Association (DGPuK), Annual Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR), Annual Conference of the DGPuK Division Methods, Annual Conference of the DGPuK Division Media Reception and Effects
• Third-Party Funders: Bayrisches Forschungsinstitut für Digitale Transformation | Bavarian Research Institute for Digital Transformation (bidt); Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft |German Research Foundation (DFG); Israel Science Foundation (ISF); Schweizerischer Nationalfonds (SNF) | Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF); Wissenschaftliche Kommission Niedersachsen (WKN) | Scientific Commission of Lower Saxony
• Miscellaneous: SoSci Panel (Peer-reviewed academic online access panel)

• Organization of the Workshop “Agile project management in communication research” as part of the Annual Conference of the Division “Methods” of the German Communication Association (2024)
• Organization of the Workshop “Ethical challenges in research on incivility online” as part of the Annual Conference of the Division “Methods” of the German Communication Association (2023)
• Program Committee of the Annual Doctoral Consortium of the Division “Communication and Technology”, International Communication Association (2022)
• Organization of the Workshop “Facebook is dead – and so is our research?” as part of the Annual Conference of the German Communication Association (2022)
• Organization of the Annual Conference of the Division “Media Reception and Effects” of the German Communication Association (2021)
• Organisation of the Review Process for the Annual Conference of the German Communication Association (2020)