Members

Prof.Dr. Martin Löffelholz

Martin Löffelholz has been working on war and crisis communication since the early 1990s and has published numerous articles on the subject, including the highly regarded anthologies War as a Media Event (1993) and War as a Media Event II (2004). Prof. Löffelholz is particularly interested in journalism, organizational communication, war and crisis communication, intercultural and (security) political communication.

He is founder and director of the International Research Group on Crisis Communication (IRGoCC).

martin.loeffelholz@tu-ilmenau.de

Dr. Andreas Schwarz has been an academic advisor at the Institute for Media and Communication Studies (IfMK) at Ilmenau University of Technology since 2010. Since 2017, Schwarz has been (acting) Head of the Department of Public Relations and Technology Communication at the IfMK.

His research and teaching focus on public relations, crisis communication, journalism research and intercultural/international communication. Since 2006, he has been the managing director of the International Crisis Communication Research Group (IRGoCC) together with Martin Löffelholz. Andreas Schwarz is the founding chair of ECREA's Temporary Working Group on Crisis Communication since 2011. Since 2015, he is the chair of ECREA's Crisis Communication Specialist Group, which emerged from the Temporary Working Group.

andreas.schwarz@tu-ilmenau.de

PD Dr. phil. habil. Liane Rothenberger is concerned with the analysis of reporting on acts of terrorism. She is currently a senior lecturer at the Institute for Media and Communication Studies at TU Ilmenau.

liane.rothenberger@tu-ilmenau.de

Le Ngoc Son is working on his doctoral thesis on "Crisis Communication Management" at the Institute of Media and Communication Studies at Ilmenau University of Technology. He investigates the influence of social, cultural and political factors on structural and practical crisis communication management in the ASEAN region and develops a strategic framework for basic responses at national and regional levels. He has been a member of the International Group on Crisis Communication (IRGoCC) since 2015.

ngoc-son.le@tu-ilmenau.de

Tatjana Faj is currently a research assistant at the Institute for Media and Communication Studies at the Ilmenau University of Technology and is working on her dissertation on intercultural differences in the perception and evaluation of corporate crises and crisis communication.

tatjana.faj@tu-ilmenau.de

During the next years, Yi Xu will work on her doctoral thesis on multimodal framing of national images and its effects on people's perception. From 2016 to 2018 she pursued a master's degree in Media and Communication Science at the Technische Universität Ilmenau. Her master's thesis focused on China's national image in international news and devoted to the research on public diplomacy. From 2011 to 2015, she gained her bachelor's degree in Communication at the University of International Relations (Beijing, China). In May 2018, her research titled "Effects of Avatar's Humanness, Gestures, Spatial Presence on Interpersonal Trust and Attraction in Social VR" was presented in the 68th ICA conference. In July 2017, her research titled "Social Media as an Instrument of Public Diplomacy: A Case Study of CGTN Facebook Posts about Belt and Road Initiative during 2014-2017" was presented and won the best presentation award in the international student conference hosted by Ilmenau Center of Public Diplomacy (ICPD).

yi.xu@tu-ilmenau.de