Research focuses: Multimodal news framing, Visual journalism, Generative imagery, Risk and crisis communication, Strategic political communication
Top publication outlets: Digital Journalism, Journalism Studies, Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly
Top conference presentation: ICA, ECREA, IAMCR
Most important research awards: ICA “2025 Third Place Faculty Paper” (Visual Communication Studies Division), ICA “2022 Top Student Paper” (Visual Communication Studies Division)
Editorial work: Co-editor of Elgar Encyclopaedia of Crisis Management
Prior positions in higher education: Postdoctoral researcher (2024 – 2025), Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena; Research associate (2021 – 2024), Technische Universität Ilmenau for the DFG-funded project “Deciphering the ‘pandemic public sphere’: Government communication, (social) media discourses on and citizens’ responses to Covid-19 in Europe and the USA” (DECIPHER)
Postgraduate education: PhD (Technische Universität Ilmenau)
