Education 

2007.   Ph.D. Communication Science (with honors) Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Department of Communication, Amsterdam School of Communication Research, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands: “Framing the Others: Migration and Ethnic Prejudice” Supervisors: Prof. Claes H. de Vreese, Prof. Holli A. Semetko, Prof. Cees van der Eijk

2003.   M.A. Communication Science (with distinction), Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Department of Communication, Amsterdam School of Communication Research, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

Current positions

2014 - current.    Full Professor for Empirical Social Science Methods with a Focus on Text Analysis. Co-lead of the Computational Communication Lab. Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Communication, University of Vienna, Austria

2025 - current.   Chair of the Board of Directors of the European Research Infrastructure: Monitoring Electoral Democracy (MEDem)

Previous position(s)

2020-current.  Board member Austrian Social Science Data Archive, University of Vienna

2018-2024   Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Vienna

2017-2021    Co-Director of the Research Centre “Vienna Centre for Electoral Research – VieCER”

2016-2020   Scientific Advisor of the Austrian Social Science Data Archive (AuSSDA)

2016-2018   Vice Dean for Reserch and Infrastructure of the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Vienna

2012-2013    Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences, NIAS. 

2011-2014   Associate Professor of Political Communication at the Amsterdam School of Communication Research, Department of Communication Science, University of Amsterdam

2009   Visiting Scholar at the Media and Communications Department, Journalism School, at University of Technology, Sydney, Australia.  

2007-2011   Assistant Professor of Political Communication at the Amsterdam School of Communication Research, Department of Communication Science, University of Amsterdam

2004  Visiting researcher at the Political Science Department, Emory University, Atlanta, USA. 

2003  Visiting researcher at the Department of Political Studies, Auckland University, Auckland, New Zealand. 

2003-2007.  Ph.D. Candidate at the Amsterdam School of Communication Research, Department of Communication Science, University of Amsterdam