Research interests

• Social Bots
• Social Media Communication
• Social Media Analytics
• Automatisierte Kommunikation

Academic qualification

since 10/2018	PhD Student in the Research Training Group User-Centred Social Media, University of Duisburg-Essen
10/2015 - 07/2018	M.Sc. in Applied Cognitive and Media Science, University of Duisburg-Essen
10/2011 - 07/2015	B.Sc. in Applied Cognitive and Media Science, University of Duisburg-Essen

Professional Background

since 10/2018	Research Associate at the University of Duisburg-Essen (Prof. Dr. Stieglitz, Professional Communication in Electronic Media / Social Media)
since 11/2011	Freelancer Online Marketing / Social Media Consulting
03/2015 - 09/2018	Head of Organisation Jazzband Challenge im Rahmen des Internationalen Jazzfestival Viersen, Stadt Viersen
11/2011 - 03/2015	Freelancer Farhouse Media GmbH & Co. KG, Cologne
03/2012 - 10/2012	Working student at WDR Cologne music department television
07/2011 - 2011	Intern at Farhouse Media GmbH & Co. KG, Cologne

Publications

Journal Paper

• Frick, N., Brünker, F., Ross, B., & Stieglitz, S. (2019). Der Einsatz von künstlicher Intelligenz zur Verbesserung des Incident Managements. HMD Praxis der Wirtschaftsinformatik.

Conference Paper

• Brünker, F., Marx, J., Ross, B., Mirbabaie, M., & Stieglitz, S. (2020). ‘The Tireless Selling-Machine’ – Commercial Deployment of Social Bots during Black Friday Season on Twitter. Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Wirtschaftsinformatik (WI), Potsdam, Germany (forthcoming)
   
• Brünker, F., Wischnewski, M., Mirbabaie, M., & Meinert, J. (2020). The Role of Social Media during Social Movements – Observations from the #metoo Debate on Twitter. In Proceedings of the 52nd Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS). Maui, Hawaii *Best Paper Award Nominee
   
• Brünker, F., Deitelhoff, F., & Mirbabaie, M. (2019). Collective Identity Formation on Instagram – Investigating the Social Movement Fridays for Future. Proceedings of the 30th Australasian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS), Fremantle, Australia
   
• Frick, N., Brünker, F., Ross, B., & Stieglitz, S. (2019). Towards Successful Collaboration: Design Guidelines for AI-based Services enriching Information Systems in Organisations. Proceedings of the 30th Australasian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS), Fremantle, Australia
   
• Stieglitz, S., Mirbabaie, M., Schwenner, L., Marx, J., Lehr, J., & Brünker, F. (2017). Sensemaking and Communication Roles in Social Media Crisis Communication. Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Wirtschaftsinformatik (WI), St. Gallen, Switzerland