It is the end of the year and again a couple of interesting things happened at our institute. Therefore, we have assembled a short collection of news, projects, events, publications and conferences we worked on during the last months.

We are especially pleased about the successful completion of the doctorate of our long-time colleague Britta Gossel at the Otto-Friedrich-University Bamberg. In addition, we can announce three further doctorates at the institute: Waqas Ejaz and Lena Birkenfeld (Research Group Empirical Media Research and Political Communication) and Mariia Dubiago (Research Group Media Psychology and Media Conception) successfully defended their doctoral theses.

Furthermore, we congratulate Professor Andreas Will on his teaching award at the TU Ilmenau.

In addition, we can once again welcome many new employees to the Institute. Max Schindler has been supporting the Research Group Computational Communication Science since July and Nigar Zahan has been working on the Media and Communication Management Group for the EU Interreg project CerDee since August. Moreover, Johanna Radechovsky has joined the Research Group Media Sudies in October. And, we welcome Laura Martin back in the Group for Research in PR and Communication of Technology, who has been taking over parental leave from Elisabeth Wagner-Olfermann since October.

In our Alumni-Portrait Olivia Deskarina will tell us about her work at the branch office of the German Acadmic Exchange Office (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, DAAD) in Indonesia’s capital Jakarta.

Enjoy reading!

Prof. Martin Löffelholz, Laura Martin, Tatjana Faj & Kersten Hoppe