Professional Service

• Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. Membership chair and Barrow Scholarship chair, Communication Theory & Methodology Division. 08/2022 - present
• International Communication Association. Student and early career representative, Mass Communication Division. 05/2022 - present

Community Partnership

• Citizen science projet "YouCount". 02/2021 - 01/2024

Honors & Awards

• Top Paper Award (with Isabel I. Villanueva and Dietram A. Scheufele) for “(Meta)Theorizing public spheres in an era of preference-based media effects,” Mass Communication Division, International Communication Association . 02/2023
• Web of Science Top 1% Highly Cited Paper in Social Sciences, Believing and sharing misinformation, fact-checks, and accurate information on social media: The role of anxiety during COVID-19 (New Media & Society, with co-authors). 12/2022
• Stipend for the presentation of the top student-led paper (with Marlis Stubenvoll and Jörg Matthes) “Resistant and misinformed: Understanding the psychological drivers of COVID-19 misperceptions,” Multidisciplinary International Symposium on Disinformation in Open Online Media . Multidisciplinary International Symposium on Disinformation in Open Online Media , 11/2021
• First Place Research Award (with Anja Stevic) for the project “To Disclose or Not to Disclose? The Role of Anxiety, Privacy Concerns, and Connectedness in Online Self-Disclosure,” Department of Communication, University of Vienna, Austria. Department of Communication, University of Vienna, Austria, 10/2021
• ISC + ComSHER Cohort Award, Inclusive Science Communication (ISC) and Communicating Science, Health, Environment and Risk Division (ComSHER) of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC). Inclusive Science Communication (ISC) and Communicating Science, Health, Environment and Risk Division (ComSHER) of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC), 07/2021
• Web of Science Top 0.1% Hot Paper in Social Sciences, Fact-checking as risk communication: The multi-layered risk of misinformation in times of COVID-19 (Journal of Risk Research, with Nicole M. Krause et al.). 04/2021
• Web of Science Top 1% Highly Cited Paper in Social Sciences, Fact-checking as risk communication: The multi-layered risk of misinformation in times of COVID-19 (Journal of Risk Research, with Nicole M. Krause et al.). 01/2021
• Fulbright Scholarship, Visiting Researcher at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, Department of Life Sciences Communication, USA. Fulbright Germany, 07/2019
• Dissertation Fellowship supported by German Science Foundation, Research Training Group “Trust and Communication in a Digitized World,” University of Münster, Germany. University of Münster, Germany, 12/2017
• Erasmus+ Scholarship, semester abroad at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Technische Universitaet Dresden, Germany, 08/2015