Kathrin Friedrich is Professor of Media Studies: Digital Media Culture since April 2021.

From October 2018 to March 2021 PostDoc and scientific coordinator in the research college "SENSING. On the Knowledge of Sensitive Media" at the ZeM-Brandenburg Center for Media Studies. Also Fellow at the Center for Advanced Internet Studies (CAIS) Bochum from April to July 2020. From May 2013 to October 2018 research associate at the Cluster of Excellence Image Knowledge Gestaltung. An Interdisciplinary Laboratory (from January 2016 also PostDoc Head of Image and Action and Board Member). Between May 2013 and October 2018 associated at the department The Technical Image at the Hermann von Helmholtz Center for Cultural Technology, Humboldt University of Berlin as well as research stays at Linköping University/Sweden, at the Hagströmer Medico-Historical Library, Karolinska Institute/Sweden and the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba/Argentina.

In June 2015, doctorate in media studies with the dissertation Medienbefunde. Digital Imaging and Diagnostic Radiology at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne. From June 2009 to April 2013 artistic-scientific assistant at the Chair of Aesthetics and in the BMBF research network Embodied Information - 'Living' Algorithms and Cellular 'Machines'. 2001 to 2006 Master's degree in Media Studies, Law and Sociology at the Philipps University of Marburg.

• Media studies and science studies/STS
• Theory of adaptive media
• Tracking and sensing in precision farming, virtual therapy, image-guided surgery and art and cultural production