curriculum vitae — Dr. Sabrina Heike Kessler

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since 08/2017

2025

2024

Senior Research and Teaching Associate at the Department of Communication and Media Research, University of Zurich

External Lecturer for Artificial Intelligence and ChatGPT at the Migros Club School

Speaker of the Swiss Young Academy

Granting of the project "Digital resilience: tool for AI and deepfake skills among young people" funded by the Digitalization Initiative of the Zurich Higher Education Institutions (DIZH) (Link)

2024

2023

Since 2023

2022

Organization of the international conference at the IKMZ on the topic "Science Communication in the Age of Artificial Intelligence""; Link

Granting of the project "SciComm meets Comedy" funded by the Digitalization Initiative of the Zurich Higher Education Institutions (DIZH) (Link)

Granting of the project "AI in Science and Society" funded by the Swiss Young Academy (Link)

Granting of the project "Science vs Activism? Exploring the Boundary" funded by the Swiss Young Academy (Link)

Chair of the Division “Media Reception and Effects” of the German Communication Association

Granting of the project "The Effect of Disinformation on Opinion Formation: Experimental Analyses of the Effect and Role of Different Influencing Factors in a Multi-Method Design" funded by the Media Authority of North Rhine-Westphalia

2021

Granting of the project "Disinformation on COVID-19 vaccination on YouTube: An analysis of content, impact, and subsequent verification processes via online search" funded by the Swiss Federal Office of Communication (OFCOM (admin.ch))

2020

Granting of and main responsibility for the project "What can we learn from COVID-19 fake news about the spread of scientific misinformation in general?" funded by the Swiss Young Academy

2019-2021

Foundation and management of the peer-mentoring group "MFG - MedienforscherInnengruppe" at the IKMZ - third-party financed by the Graduate Campus of the University of Zurich

2016-2019

Junior spokesperson at the Science Communication Section of the German Society for Journalism and Communication Studies (DGPuK)

2016-2017

Deputy Equal Opportunities Representative within the Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Friedrich Schiller University of Jena

11/2015

Dissertation on the topic "Das ist doch evident! Eine Analyse dargestellter Evidenzframes und deren Wirkung am Beispiel von TV-Wissenschaftsbeiträgen. [It’s evident! Identifying frames of evidence as used in science TV programs and testing their effects on beliefs]” (Advisors: Prof. Dr. Georg Ruhrmann (Jena) & Prof. Dr. Hans Peter Peters (Jülich))

2011-2017

Research Associate and Lecturer at the Institute of Communication Research, Friedrich Schiller University of Jena; involved in DFG-funded projects within the program 1409: “Science and Public Sphere” until 09/2015

2009-2011

Student Assistant at the Institute of Communication Research, Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, in the DFG-funded project “Science and the General Public: Understanding Fragile and Conflicting Evidence”

2008-2011

Student Assistant at the Public Relations Department (now: Communication Department), Friedrich Schiller University of Jena

2009-2010

Chairwoman of the Student Representatives for Communication Research, Friedrich Schiller University of Jena

2006-2011

Studies of Media Science, Psychology and German Linguistics at the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena. Master thesis: “Evidence and uncertainty in science TV shows. A content analysis for capturing and modelling journalistic evidence and uncertainty representation in science TV shows on the topic of molecular medicine”