Jan-Noël Thon - Curriculum Vitae#

• 05/2020 Professorial competence (professorkompetanse) in media studies at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway
  
• 10/2017 Baden-Württemberg Certificate of Teaching in Higher Education from the Center of Teaching in Higher Education of the Universities of the Federal State of Baden-Württemberg, Germany
  
• 09/2017 Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy, UK
  
• 03/2014 PhD in media and communication studies at the University of Mannheim, Germany (PhD thesis awarded the highest distinction, ‘summa cum laude’)
  
• 03/2008 MA in German literature, British literature, and media culture at the University of Hamburg, Germany (awarded the highest distinction, ‘sehr gut’)

• 03/2022 - present Full Professor and Chair of Media Studies and Media Education at the Department of German Studies, Osnabrück University, Germany
  
• 07/2023 - 09/2025 Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship for Experienced Researchers from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the German Seminar of the University of Zurich, Switzerland
  
• 02/2023 - 04/2023 AUFF Visiting Researcher at the Centre for Literature between Media, Aarhus University, Denmark
  
• 07/2020 - 02/2022 Full Professor of Media Studies at the Department of Art and Media Studies, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway
  
• 10/2019 - 08/2021 Professorial Fellow at the School of Film, Media and Performance Arts, University for the Creative Arts, Farnham, UK
  
• 08/2019 - 09/2021 Guest Professor of Media Studies at the Department of Media and Theater Studies, University of Cologne, Germany
  
• 07/2019 - 06/2020 Associate Professor of Media Studies at the Department of Art and Media Studies, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway
  
• 05/2019 Guest researcher at the Department of Media and Theatre Studies, University of Cologne, Germany
  
• 04/2018 Guest researcher at the Center for Computer Games Research, IT University Copenhagen, Denmark
  
• 09/2017 - 06/2019 Assistant Professor in Media Studies and Digital Media Culture (promotion to Associate Professor confirmed 03/2019) at the University of Nottingham, UK)
  
• 01/2012 - 08/2017 Postdoctoral Research Associate (Akademischer Mitarbeiter) and Coordinator of the Center for Interdisciplinary Media Research, University of Tübingen, Germany
  
• 09/2010 - 09/2011 Research Associate (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter) at the Research Unit Media Convergence of the University of Mainz, Germany
  
• 01/2009 - 12/2011 Full PhD scholarship by the German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes) with a PhD thesis on transmedial narratology
  
• 04/2008 - 03/2012 Lecturer (Lehrbeauftragter) in literary and media studies at several departments of the University of Hamburg, Germany
  
• 10/2004 - 09/2007 Teaching assistant (Tutor) in literary and media studies at several departments of the University of Hamburg, Germany