Category: Assistant professors

  • dr. Christopher Starke

    dr. Christopher Starke

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  • dr. Kathleen Beckers

    dr. Kathleen Beckers

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  • dr. Knut De Swert

    dr. Knut De Swert

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  • dr. Tom Dobber

    dr. Tom Dobber

    Assistant Professor Tom is an assistant professor who studies political communication, AI, and journalism (e.g., microtargeting, disinformation, and gen-AI), using a mix of approaches (experimentation, surveys, (automated) content analyses, interviews). Tom seeks to understand political communication’s impact on society, as well as how technological advances change political communication. Keywords: Political Communication, disinformation, generative AI, resilience,…

  • dr. Felicia Loecherbach

    dr. Felicia Loecherbach

    Assistant Professor Felicia Loecherbach is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Communication Science at the University of Amsterdam. She is also a Faculty Research Affiliate at the Center for Social Media and Politics (CSMaP) at NYU, where she held a position as Postdoctoral Fellow from 2022 to 2024. She obtained her PhD in Communication…

  • dr. Dina Strikovic

    dr. Dina Strikovic

    Assistant Professor Dina Strikovic is an Assistant Professor at the Amsterdam School of Communication Research (University of Amsterdam). Her work focuses on the digitalization of journalism, where she studies the increased use of AI and algorithms in the newsroom and how these technologies are (re)shaping news creation and consumption. She also studies current issues related…

  • dr. Marina Tulin

    dr. Marina Tulin

    Assistant Professor Marina Tulin is an Assistant Professor of Digital Citizenship at the Amsterdam School of Communication Research at the University of Amsterdam. Her research interests include mis- and disinformation, fact-checking, media literacy as well as public trust in information and knowledge institutions. She has an interdisciplinary academic background in Psychology (BSc & MSc), Sociology…

  • dr. Rachid Azrout

    dr. Rachid Azrout

    Assistant Professor Rachid Azrout is an Assistant Professor of Political Communication and Journalism at the University of Amsterdam. His research interests mainly lie on the interplay of media exposure and public opinion, and studies this in relation to topics as immigration, the European Union, polarisation and party politics. In the past, he has participated in…

  • dr. Patrick van Erkel

    dr. Patrick van Erkel

    Assistant Professor Patrick van Erkel is an Assistant Professor of Political Communication at the Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR). He holds a PhD in political science from the University of Antwerp (2017). His research focuses on how political news and information, both in traditional media and on social media, affect citizens’ political attitudes and…

  • dr. Corinna Oschatz

    dr. Corinna Oschatz

    Assistant Professor Corinna Oschatz is an Assistant Professor of Political Communication and Journalism at the Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR), University of Amsterdam. She holds a PhD in communication science from the University of Mainz (2016) and completed a Postdoc at the University of Landau. Corinna was a guest researcher at Cornell University (NY,…