Christian Pentzold - Curriculum Vitae#

• Habilitation (facultas docendi) in Media and Communication, University of Trier, Germany (2018). Habilitation thesis: “Transmedia Discourses. Conditions, Analytical Framework, and Case Studies.” Committee: Hans-Jürgen Bucher, Werner Holly, Johannes Kopp, Martin Loiperdinger, Martin Wengeler
  
• PhD in Media and Communication, Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany (2013). Dissertation “Practices and Institutions of Web-Based Collaboration.” Committee: Claudia Fraas, Peter Ohler, Carsten Winter
  
• MA in Media and Communication, Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany (2006). Thesis: “Towards an Integrative Analytical Framework for Wiki Discourse.” Supervisor: Claudia Fraas
  
• Master Program Film and Media Studies, University of Stirling, U.K. (2005). Supervisors: Karl Leydecker, Jairo Lugo-Ocando, Brian McNair
  
• BA in Media and Communication, Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany (2003)

• MediaTempo. Role: PI. Funder: VolkswagenStiftung. Amount: 10.000 Euro (Grant Agreement Number: 9E585) (2025)
  
• Success Factors of Local E-Participation: Mapping and Strengthening Digital Civic Participation in German Municipalities. Role: Co-PI. Funder: Mercator Foundation. Amount: 163.055 Euro (Grant Agreement Number 220276) Total Grant Amount: 855.100 Euro (2023–2026)
  
• molo.news: Validation of a News Platform for Urban Publics. Role: Co-PI. Funder: German Federal Ministry of Education and Research. Amount: 298.535 Euro (Grant Agreement Number 03VP10962) Total Grant Amount: 1.493.909 Euro (2023 - 2026)
  
• Automating Welfare: Algorithmic Infrastructures for Human Flourishing in Europe. Role: Co-PI. Funder: German Federal Ministry of Education and Research under the CHANSE ERA-NET Co-fund programme, which has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme. Amount: 299.935 Euro (Grant Agreement Number 101004509) Total Grant Amount: 1.494.809 Euro (2022 - 2025)
  
• Futurehomestories: Designing Co-Creation. Role: Co-PI. Funder: German Federal Ministry of Education and Research. Amount: 312.255 Euro (Grant Agreement Number 16SV8609) Total Grant Amount: 2.949.600 Euro (2021–2024)
  
• Framing Big Data: The Media Framing of Aggregate Data and New Data-Based Processes in Comparison of Communicative Forms, Time Periods, and Countries. Role: PI. Funder: German Research Foundation. Amount: 286.894 Euro (Grant Agreement Number 447465824/PE 2436/3-1) (2021 - 2024)
  
• Perspectives and Applications of Digital Participation Procedures in Rural Regional Development. Role: PI. Funder: Federal Office for Agriculture and Food. Amount: 115.707 Euro (Grant Agreement Number 2820FD011 B ) (2020 - 2023)
  
• Knowing, Understanding, and Engaging with Embodied Technologies. Role: Co-PI. Funder: Collaborative Research Center (CRC) Hybrid Societies, German Research Foundation. Amount: 392.226 Euro (Grant Agreement Number 1410, INST 270/339-1). Total Grant Amount: 11.715.200 Euro (2020 - 2024)

• Supervision of 4 Postdoctoral Research Fellows, Department for Communication and Media Studies, Leipzig University, Germany (2020 - present)
  
• Supervision of 13 PhD Students, Leipzig University, Germany; Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany; University of Bremen, Germany (2016 - present)
  

• Course leader, Leipzig University, Germany. Undergraduate courses: Digital Life; Communication Research Methods; Theories of Media and Culture; Media and Communication History. Graduate seminar: Research Class Digitization and Datafication (2020 - present)
  
• Guest lecturer, Hebrew University, Israel. Graduate seminar: Timing Digital Media (2021 - 2022)
  
• Visiting lecturer, King’s College London, U.K. Graduate seminar: Digital Research Methods (2012)

• Editor: Journal Publizistik, Springer Nature, ISSN 0033-4006 (2021–present); Associate Editor and incoming Editor-in-Chief: Journal Communications – The European Journal of Communication Research, de Gruyter, ISSN 1613-4087 (2020 - present)
  
• Editorial Board Member: Journal of Communication, Oxford UP, ISSN 0021-9916 (2024 - 2026); Journal Memory, Mind and Media, Cambridge UP, ISSN 2635-0238 (2022 - present); SCM | Studies in Communication and Media, Nomos, ISSN 2192-4007 (2018 - 2020); Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft, Nomos, ISSN 1615-634X (2016 - 2018)