Former co-workers

Prof. Dr. Klaus-Dieter Altmeppen, senior research assistant in the Media Studies group from 01. October 1998 until 31. October 2007.

As of November 2007, Prof. Dr. Klaus-Dieter Altmeppen took over the Chair of Journalism II at the Catholic University of Eichstätt.

Since November 2016, he has been head of the Center for Ethics of Media and Digital Society of the Munich School of Philosophy.

From 2010 to 2016, Dr. Claudia Auer was a research assistant at the Media Studies group. 

She is currently employed as Corporate Communications Specialist Internal and Change Communication at HELLA Corporate Center GmbH.

Judith Bug, research assistant at the Media Studies group from 01. April 1998 until  28. February 2001.

Ms. Bug is currently an external lecturer at the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media at the IJK (Institute for Journalism and Communication Research).

Alexandra Büttner, Secretary in the Media Studies group from 01. Augsut 2003 until 31. May 2008.

Ms. Büttner is currently working as an administrator in the Department of Personnel Affairs at the TU Ilmenau.

Prof. Dr. phil. habil. Katrin Döveling, research associate in the Media Studies group from 01. Aptil 2004 until 30. September 2004.

Ms. Döveling is working as a substitute professor in the field of Empirical Communication and Media Research at the University of Leipzig.

Prof. Dr. phil. habil. Katrin Döveling is currently Professor of Communication Studies/ Media Communication at Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences.

Matthias Duchscherer, research assistant at the Media Studies group until 30. April 2010.

Matthias Duchscherer is currently chairman of Project Lighthouse Africa e.V.

Dr. Thomas Hanitzsch, research assistant and staff member in the Media Studies group from 01. March 2002 until 30. September 2006.

In 2010, Prof. Hanitzsch was appointed to a professorship for communication science with a focus on journalism at the University of Munich.

Marion Hensel, research assistant in the Media Studies group until 30. Septemver 2010.

She is currently working at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar in scholarship coordination and doctoral advising.

Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp, research assistant and staff member in the Media Studies group from 01. September 1999 until 30. September 2004.

Andreas Hepp is Professor of Communication and Media Studies with a focus on media culture and communication theory at the Center for Media, Communication and Information Research (ZeMKI) and its spokesperson. 

Anke Janetzki, research assistant at the Media Studies group from 01. April 2005 until 31. July 2006.

Anke Janetzki joined the Association of German Women Entrepreneurs (VDU) as a policy officer.

Ines Lehrke, research assistant in the Media Studies group from 01. October 2003 until 31. January 2004.

Ines Lehrke has been working at orgavision GmbH in the Marketing & Communication department since March 2017.

Elisabeth Lueginger, Mag. worked in the Media Studies group from September 2009 until September 2010.

The communication scientist currently works as a freelancer in Vienna, Austria.

Dr. phil. Franziska Oehmer, research assistant in the Media Studies group from 01. May 2008 until 31. October 2008.

Prof. Dr. Franziska Oehmer-Pedrazzi is a professor at the Institute for Multimedia Production at the University of Applied Sciences Graubünden in Switzerland.

Prof. Dr. Thorsten Quandt, research associate in the Media Studies group from 01. April 1998 until 30. September 2003.

Thorsten Quandt is professor and spokesman of the Center for the Study of Digitized Public Spheres at the UWestfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster. He is head of the research area "Online Communication".

Carsten Schlüter, project staff member in the Media Studies group from 01. April 2001 until 28. February 2004.

Mr. Schlüter currently works as an editor at Goodwill Verlag Lünen.

Dipl.-Medienwiss. Frank Sinn, research assistant at the Media Studies group from 18. June 2007 until 30. April 2008.

Dr. phil. Alice Srugies, research associate in the Media Studies group from 01.October 2010 until 25. March 2016.

Alice Srugies has been a member of the Ilmenau Center for Research and Training in Public Diplomacy since 2011.

She is currently a Senior Lecturer in the Division of Cognition and Communication at the Department of Applied IT, University of Gothenburg.

Jun.-Prof. Dr. Tanja Thomas, research associate in the Media Studies group from 01. October 2002 until 31. October 2004.

Prof. Dr. Tanja Thomas is Executive Director and Professor of Media Studies with a focus on transformations of media culture at the University of Tübingen.

Prof. Dr. Carsten Winter, research assistant at the Media Studies group from 15. October 1997 until 31. December 2000.

Since September 2007, Carsten Winter has been a university professor for media and music management at the Institute for Journalism and Communication Research at the Hanover University of Music and Drama.