• Year of birth 1973
• 1994-1998: Diploma in German Philology / Journalism / Political Science at the University of Bamberg, Germany, and the University of South Carolina, Columbia, USA
• 1998-2001: Ph.D. in Media Science, University of Jena, Germany,
• 2001-2003: Postdoc, Communication Science / Journalism at the University of Hohenheim
• 2003-2007: Assistant Professor, Communication Psychology at the University of Koblenz-Landau, at the Institute for Communication Science and Media Education
• Since 2008: Professor for Communication Psychology at the University of Koblenz-Landau/Kaiserslautern-Landau

Finished Dissertations:

• Schneider, Frank (2012): Measuring Subjective Movie Evaluation Criteria. Conceptual Foundation, Construction, and Validation of the SMEC Scales.
• Hertzsch, Helen (2013): Zur Kommunikationskompetenz von schulischen Führungskräften. Konzeptuelle Fundierung, Entwicklung und Validierung eines Messinstruments.
• Stengel, Karin (2013): Bilder in der Krisen- und Konfliktberichterstattung. Relevanz von Fotonachrichtenfaktoren für die Analyse der visuellen Nachrichtenberichterstattung über Konflikte, Krisen und Kriege.
• Retzbach, Andrea (2014): Uncertainty about Scientific Uncertainty.
• Guenther, Lars (2014, Zweitbetreuerin im Rahmen des gemeinsamen DFG-Projekts): The coverage of (un)certainty: Science journalists' perceptions and reporting on scientific evidence.
• Retzbach, Joachim (2015): Medieneffekte auf das Wissenschaftsverständnis.
• Otto, Lukas (2015): Softening trust? Effects of soft news characteristics on trust in politicians.
• Glogger, Isabella (2018): Hard and Soft News. A Twofold Approximation to a Key Concept in Journalism Research.
• Antl-Wittenberg, Eva-Maria (2019): Euroskeptizismus in Politik und Medien. Eine international vergleichende Analyse der Parteienkommunikation und Medienberichterstattung im Vorfeld der Europawahl.
• Jansen, Severin (2019) Europa auf der Agenda: Chancen und Restriktionen parteipolitischer Kommunikation im Europawahlkampf 2014.
• Werling, Kristen (2020): Motivating and Hindering Factors for Internal Organizational Communication Media Usage Intention: Insights on Differential Influences for Hard-to-Reach Employees.
• Barkela, Berend (2020): Führungskommunikation in Theatern. Eine Untersuchung zum Einfluss der Kommunikationsbeziehung zwischen Führungskräften und Mitarbeiter*innen auf die Integration konfligierender Bereiche in Organisationen.
• Thomas, Fabian (2021): How to Model the Reinforcing Spirals Model? A Methodological Approach to Analyze Reciprocal Relations Between Attitudes, Beliefs, and Behaviors.
• Gorski, Lea (2021): The Avoidance of News in a Changing Media Environment. An investigation into the concept of news avoidance from a longitudinal and short term perspective.
• Christner, Clara (2023): A Perfect Match? The Influence of Poplist Radical-Right Attitudes on Desinformation Processing.
• Nordbruch-Bogado, Natalia: Framing The Inclusiveness of The National Ingroup. Empirical evidence for a theoretical model of identity-related framing effects across different frames, issues, attitudes, and cultural contexts.

Ongoing Dissertations:

• Filler, Signe: Public communication about predictive models and scenarios
• Witter, Sabrina
• Schwall, Talisa

• Vice-Dean for Research, Faculty of Psychology at the University Kaiserslautern-Landau (since 2023)
• Member of the DFG Committee on Research Training Groups (since 2021)
• Member of the DFG Ad-hoc Working Group „Digital Change“ (since 2023)
• Spokesperson of the Coordination Group „Digital Behavioral Data“ (GESIS – Leibniz Institut für Sozialwissenschaften) (since 2022)
• Spokesperson of the RPTU Research Area SCOPE
• Director of the Media Center Campus Landau (since 2005)
• Head of the „Interdisziplinären Forschungsgruppe Umwelt (IFG)“ – together with Prof. Dr. Gabriele Schaumann
• Member of  the „International Communication Association (ICA)“
• Member of the „Deutsche Gesellschaft für Wahlforschung (DGfW)“
• Member of the „European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA)“
• Member of the University Council University Koblenz-Landau (2008-2014)

• Vice-Dean for Teaching, Faculty of Psychology, University Koblenz-Landau (2011-2014)
• Dean of the Faculty of Pschology, University Koblenz-Landau (2014-2017)
• Vice-Spokesperson oft he DFG-Special Priority Program 1409 „Science and the Public“