Sven Engesser

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Sven Engesser (* 1979 in Karlsruhe ) is a German communication scientist and university professor with a research focus on science communication (especially climate communication, communication about antibiotic resistance), technology communication (especially communication in the Internet of Things) and risk communication (especially populism in the media, media and social Risks). He has been a professor at the Technical University of Dresden since October 1, 2017 .

Life

Engesser studied journalism and communication studies , film studies and theater studies at the Free University of Berlin and received his doctorate from the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich on the quality of participatory journalism on the web. Subsequently he was senior assistant at the University of Zurich . He worked at the National Center of Competence in Research on the subject of “Challenges to Democracy in the 21st Century” of the Swiss National Science Foundation and was a member of the COST campaign (European Cooperation in Science and Technology), where he worked on the subject of “Populist Political Communication in Europe ”did research.

On October 1, 2017, he succeeded Wolfgang Donsbach, who died in 2015, as the holder of Professorship I at the Institute for Communication Studies at the Technical University of Dresden. The professorship was rededicated as a professorship for science and technology communication .

Engesser has three children.

Memberships

  • since 2017: Center for Interdisciplinary Technology Research at the Technical University of Dresden
  • since 2018: Boysen-TU-Dresden-Graduiertenkolleg

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  1. Lecturer. In: Journalism - Summer Semester 2008. Catholic University of Eichstätt Ingolstadt, accessed on March 28, 2019 .