11/2024: PhD degree from the Department of Communication at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, PhD thesis: “The platformization of the news ecosystem. Indicators, interdependencies, and implications at the micro, meso, and macro levels.”
Since 02/2018: Research associate at the Department of Communication at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz.
11/2015 – 03/2017: Student research assistant at the Department of Communication at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
10/2014 – 12/2017: Graduate Studies: Master Media Business at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz and Pázmány Péter Egyetem in Budapest, Hungary. During that time: Internships at Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung and ARD Online
11/2014: Bachelor of Arts in Communication Sciences.
11/2012 – 01/2018: Student assistant at ARD Online, Mainz
10/2009 – 09/2012: Undergraduate studies: Bachelor Communication Sciences and Economics at the Johannes Gutenberg-University of Mainz and Universitat Abat Oliba in Barcelona, Spain. During that time: Student research assistant at the Department of Communication at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz and internships at Rhein-Zeitung (Cochem an der Mosel), Verlag Philipp von Zabern (Darmstadt), Deutsche Bundesbank (Frankfurt)
Research focus
- production, distribution and consumption of news in the digital age
- reception, processing and effects of digital media products
- media brands
- media and platform governance
Memberships
- International Communication Association (ICA)
- European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA)
- Deutsche Gesellschaft für Publizistik und Kommunikationswissenschaft
- Netzwerk Medienstrukturen
- Young Scholars Network reception and effect studies (NaRezFo)
- Alumnus of Freiherr-vom-Stein Network
- Alumnus of Medienstudierende
Awards & Grants
- DGPuK Theory Award 2025 for the article “Power and Autonomy: A Theoretical Framework for Analyzing the Platformization of Journalistic Media,” published in UFITA
- First prize from the DGPuK 2025 for the best communication science journal article for the article “I make the world as I like. Opinion-forming relevance from a usage perspective,” published in Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft (with Daniel Stegmann and Birgit Stark)
- Young Talent Award of the DGPuK Specialist Group Media Economics 2024 for the contribution ‘Power and Autonomy. A theoretical framework for analysing the platformisation of journalistic media’
- Grant for the teaching project "Media and Platform Governance in Practice - Media Policy is a Game" by the Gutenberg Teaching Council (09/2022-03/2023)
- Junior Member of the Gutenberg Akademy (since 02/2022)
- Alumnus of the Freiherr-vom-Stein-Alumni-Netzwork (since 10/2021)
- Goldmedia Award for Master thesis "The message well I hear, the source alone is weak. Threats and opportunities of media branding in the age of social media"
Activities in the academic community
- Junior spokesperson for the Gutenberg Academy Fellows Program (2023)
- Spokesperson for the junior research group on effects and impact research (with Nicole Liebers, University of Würzburg) (2019-2021)
- Reviewer for various journals (including Communications: The European Journal of Communication Research; Media and Communication; Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, Media International Australia) and national and international conferences
- Organization of the doctoral colloquium at the IfP (2018-2020)
Teaching
Winter term 2025: Current Issues in Communication Studies (Bachelor) and Framework Conditions of the Media Industry (Master) and Media Systems and Media Policy (Master's program in Program and Editorial Management)
Winter term 2024/25: Seminars (Bachelor): Selected Issues in Media History, Law & Politics and Journalism as a Profession
Summer term 2024: New Media / Online Communication (Bachelor) and Latest Developments in Media Management (Master)
Winter term 2022/23: Seminars Selected Issues in Communication Science II (Master) and Selected Issues in Media History, Law & Politics (Bachelor)
Summer term 2022: Seminars: New Media / Online Communication (Bachelor) and Selected Issues in Communication Science I (Master) and Exercise Method Application (Master)
Winter term 2021/22: Seminars (Bachelor): Journalism as a Profession and Selected Issues in Media History, Law & Politics
Summer term 2021: Seminars: New Media / Online Communication (Bachelor) and Selected Issues in Digital Communication (Master)
Winter term 2020/21: Seminars (Bachelor): Reading, understanding and writing Scientific Texts and Journalism as a Profession
Summer term 2020: Seminars (Bachelor): New Media / Online Communication and Media effects
Winter term 2019/20: Seminars (Bachelor): Journalism as a Profession and Selected Issues in Media History, Law & Politics
Summer term 2019: Seminar (Bachelor): Experiment
Winter term 2018/19: Seminars (Bachelor): Terms & Theories and Journalism as a Profession
Summer term 2018: Seminar (Bachelor): New Media / Online Communication (two courses)