Christian Pentzold#

Photo: Swen Reichhold

• 2020 - present Full Professor and Chair in Media and Communication, Department for Communication and Media Studies, Leipzig University, Germany
• 2020 - present Co-Director, Center for Digital Participation, Leipzig University, Germany
• 2019 - 2020 Full Professor, Communications and Media, Institute for Media Research, Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany
• 2016 - 2019 Assistant Professor, Media and Society, Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research, University of Bremen
• 2012 - 2018 Associate Researcher, Internet Policy & Governance Working Group, Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society, Berlin, Germany

• Digitisation & datafication
• Theories of media and culture
• Digital media
• Digital research methods

• 2021-2022 Lady Davis Distinguished Professorial Fellowship, Department of Communication and Journalism, Faculty of Social Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
• 2018 Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Scholarship, Department of Communication and Journalism, Faculty of Social Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
• 2015 Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship, Department for Communication, Media & Creative Industries, King’s College London, U.K.
• 2010 Visiting Doctoral Student, Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society, Harvard Law School, Harvard University, U.S.A.
• 2010 Visiting Doctoral Student Scholarship by the British Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, U.K.
• 2007-2011 Four-year student scholarship and four-year PhD scholarship by the German Academic Scholarship Foundation
• 2022 Best Paper Award, Journalism Division, International Communication Association
• 2021 Eine Uni – ein Buch Award, Stifterverband and Klaus Tschira Stiftung
• 2014 Dissertation Award, Media Sociology Section of the German Communication Association (DGPuK)

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