Professor Hannah Schmid-Petri

Professor Hannah Schmid-Petri is the holder of the Chair of Science Communication at the University of Passau and one of the principal investigators of the DFG Research Training Group 2720 "Digital Platform Ecosystems (DPE)". She is also a member of the Board of Directors of Bavarian Research Institute for Digital Transformation and part of the jury for the DFG Communicator Award. Before her time in Passau, she was a senior assistant at the Institute of Communication and Media Studies at the University of Bern.

"In my research I occupy myself mainly with the public discussion of socially controversial issues such as climate change. What interests me most is which social groups gain influence in debates and influence on political decision-making processes, and how that influence can be explained. One particular focus in my research is on the way the conditions of public communication have been changed by digitalisation."

More on her research

Professor Schmid-Petri focuses on one of the central challenges of our time: the communication of and about scientific and political topics in a new, digitally networked (media) environment. In addition, she researches public debates on various political topics, such as climate change, and tests methods of automated data analysis in her research.

The focus of her research in an overview.

Research Stories

bidt projects

Searching for the right level of trust in AI

In a bidt research focus, a team of researchers led by Professor Hannah Schmid-Petri is investigating AI-generated journalism, while another is working on…

DPE doctoral student Sally Boyani Mokaya

'The best place to do your doctoral thesis'

Interview with Sally Boyani Mokaya from Kenya, who moved to Passau to take up a doctoral position at the DFG Research Training Group ‘Digital Platform…

New research focus