Curriculum vitae
- Since 2017 Chair of Communication and Media Studies at the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
- 2007 – 2017 Professorship for Communication Studies at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster (CH)
- 2003 – 2006 Professorship for Journalism at the University of Zurich (CH)
- 2000 – 2003 Research Professorship for Political Communication and Direct Democracy at the Liechtenstein Institute (FL)
- 1999 – 2000 Substitute Professor of Political Science at the FernUniversität Hagen (FL)
- 1981 – 1987 Studied Political Science & Sociology at the Gerhard Mercator University of Duisburg, 1992 Doctorate (Dr. phil.), 1998 Habilitation and Venia Legendi in Political Science