Curriculum Vitae of Jun.-Prof. Dr. German Neubaum
Head of the Research Group
Address: Forsthausweg 2, 47057 Duisburg
Room: LF 128
Phone: +49 203 379 3553
E-Mail: german.neubaum@uni-due.de
=> German Neubaum is currently on parental leave and will return in April 2024.
Areas of Interest
- Monitoring, Forming, and Expressing Opinions in Social Media
- Political und Civic Participation in Social Media
- Effects of Publicness and Privacy on Digital Communication
- Self-Presentation and Interpersonal Relationships in Digital Communication
- Psychological Effects of Entertaining Media
Academic Qualifications
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2012-2016 |
Ph.D., University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany |
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2010-2012 |
M. Sc., Applied Cognitive and Media Science, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany |
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2007-2010 |
B. Sc., Applied Cognitive and Media Science, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany |
Professional Background
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Since 05/2021 |
Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) of Psychological Processes of Education in Social Media |
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02/2021 - 08/2021 |
Parental Leave |
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09/2018 - 10/2018 |
Visiting Scholar at the Department of Communication and Media (Prof. Dr. Brian Weeks), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA |
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Since 01/2018 |
Head of the Junior Research Group "Digital Citizenship in Network Technologies (DICINT)", University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany |
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05/2016-12/2017 |
Postdoctoral researcher: Social Psychology: Media and Communication (Chair: Nicole Krämer), University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany |
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01/2015-12/2017 |
Editorial assistant of the Journal of Media Psychology (Hogrefe) |
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10/1012-05/2016 |
Researcher and doctoral student: Social Psychology: Media and Communication (Chair: Nicole Krämer), University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany |
| 09/2014-11/2014 | Visiting scholar: Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore |
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10/2010-09/2012 |
Student research assistant: Social Psychology: Media and Communication (Chair: Nicole Krämer), University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany |
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2009-2010 |
Student trainee: Internal & Online Communications RWE AG (German electric utilities company) |
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2008-2009 |
Assistant for television production: Westdeutscher Rundfunk (West German Broadcasting) |
| 2007 | Trainee: RUHR.2010 (Marketing and Communications) |
Research Projects
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Since 01/2018 |
Head of the Junior Research Group DICINT (funded by Ministry of Culture and Science of the German State of North Rhine-Westphalia) |
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04/2017-12/2017 |
Researcher in the project "Forum Privacy and Self-determined Life in the Digital World" (funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research) |
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02/2016-03/2017 |
Researcher in the project "Automated Allocation of Volunteers in Major Disasters" (funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research) |
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2011-2012 |
Student research assistant involved in the project “Reception of online science information – Factors of selection and attitude formation” (Special Priority Program „Science and the general public: Understanding fragile and conflicting scientific evidence”, funded by the German Research Foundation) |
| 2010-2011 | Student research assistant involved in the project “The relative importance of information source and information complexity for selection and processing of science information in the Internet” (Special Priority Program „Science and the general public: Understanding fragile and conflicting scientific evidence”, funded by the German Research Foundation) |
Memberships and Academic Functions
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2018-2020 |
Secretary of the Division "Communication and Technology" (ICA) |
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Since 2018 |
Deutscher Hochschulverband |
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2017-2021 |
Young Members' Representative of the Group "Media Psychology" (German Psychological Society DGPs) |
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Since 2014 |
German Association for Journalism and Communication Research (DGPuK) |
| Since 2013 | German Psychological Society DGPs (Group: Media psychology) |
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Since 2012 |
International Communication Association (Divisions: Communication and Technology, Political Communication, Mass Communication; Interest Group: Computational Methods) |
Awards and Scholarships
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2020 |
Stafford Beer Medal for the article "Are social bots a real threat? An agent-based model of the spiral of silence to analyse the impact of manipulative actors in social networks" |
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2017 |
Best Paper Award of the Division Media Psychology (German Psychological Society) for the article "Monitoring the opinion of the crowd: Psychological mechanisms underlying public opinion perceptions on social media" (published in Media Psychology) |
| 2017 |
Herbert S. Dordick Dissertation Award (Communication and Technology Division, International Communication Association) |
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2015 |
Top Student Paper Award (Communication and Technology Division, International Communication Association) |
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2014 |
Scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) to perform part of the PhD studies at the Nanyang Technological University, Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information (Prof Joseph Walther) |
| 2011-2012 | Scholarship “Deutschland-Stipendium” for undergraduate students |