Quandt, Thorsten, Prof. Dr.

Research Foci

since 2008: Habilitation in Communication Science at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich
since 2004: Ph.D. in Communication Science. Dissertation: "Journalisten im Netz" (Journalists and the internet) at the TU Ilmenau
1990 – 1996: Journalism, psychology, film/television and cultural studies in Bochum and Liverpool
1993 – 1994: Study of Media and Cultural Studies at the John Moores University in Liverpool, England

03. – 05.2014: Visiting Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara
since 10.2012: Professor for online communication at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
2009 – 2012: Professor at the University of Hohenheim, Department of Communication Studies
2007 – 2008: Junior Professor at the FU Berlin
1997 – 2007: Research Assistant at the TU Ilmenau and the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich
08. – 09.2001: Visiting Scholar at the School of Journalism, Indiana University in Bloomington, USA
1996 – 1998: Working as a radio journalist

2025: ERC Advanced Grant – European Research Council (ERC)
2023: Fellow – International Communication Association (ICA)
2015: Top 100 Altmetric Ranking 2015 (Platz 24 der weltweit am häufigsten diskutierten Wissenschaftsartikel für „Sexist games= sexist gamers? “) – Altmetric
2014: Top 3 Faculty Paper Award – Interest Group “Game Studies”, International Communication Association (Seattle)
2011: Top 2 Faculty Paper Award für die Tagungseinreichung "Social Relations and Cyberbullying: The Influence of Individual and Structural Attributes on Victimization and Perpetration via the Internet” – ICA Conference Boston 2011, “Communication and Technology Division”
2009: ERC Starting Grant – European Research Council (ERC)
2006: Top Paper Award für die Tagungseinreichung „(No) News on the World Wide Web? A comparative content analysis of journalistic news sites in four European countries“ (2006) – Internationale Konferenz "Thinking Journalism across National Boundaries", ausgerichtet durch SPBJOR, ICA & IAMCR, Porto Alegre, Brasilien
2006: Dissertations-Förderpreis – Deutsche Gesellschaft für Publizistik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft (DGPuK)
2003: Top Paper Award – Deutsche Gesellschaft für Publizistik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft (DGPuK)

since 2015: Associate Editor of the Journal of Communication
since 2012: Board Member of the journal "Digital Journalism"
since 2012: Head of the evaluation board for Finnish Communication Studies, Academy of Finland
since 2011: Member of the Executive Board of the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA)
since 2011: Chair of the Temporary Working Group "Digital Games Research" of ECREA
since 2011: Board member of the journal "Communication Theory"
2008 – 2013: Council in the 'Scientific Advisory Board' of the Finnish Helsingin Sanomat Foundation
2009 – 2011: Secretary of the "Journalism Studies Division" of the International Communication Association (ICA)
2008 – 2010: Speaker of the 'journalism and journalism research' section of DGPuK
2006 – 2008: Deputy Speaker of the 'journalism and journalism research' section of DGPuK
since 2005: Section Editor for the journal 'Journalism Studies' ('Theory Review' section, along with Mark Deuze and Karin Wahl-Jorgensen)

Professor Dr. Thorsten Quandt