SFB speaker Carolin Gerlitz was elected a full member of the Academy of Sciences and Literature
Carolin Gerlitz is a full member of the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz
At its last meeting, the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz elected media science Professor Carolin Gerlitz from the University of Siegen as a full member.
Carolin Gerlitz holds the chair of „Digital Media and Methods“ the University of Siegen and is also the spokesperson for our Collaborative Research Center 1187 “Media of Cooperation”. She is principal investigator of the project A03 – Navigation in Online/Offline Spaces. Gerlitz is co-founder of the “Center for Digital Methodologies in Media, Language and Research” and a long-standing member of the Digital Methods Initiative and the Public Data Labs.
Gerlitz studied social and science communication in Berlin (Berlin University of the Arts) and gender, media and culture at Goldsmiths College, University of London, where she completed her Doctorate in Sociology. She then worked in London and Amsterdam before taking up a professorship at the University of Siegen in 2016. Gerlitz focuses on digital media technologies and methods as well as software and platform studies.
About the Academy of Sciences and Literature
The Academy of Sciences and Literature is a trans-regional association of personalities from the fields of science, literature and music. It serves to cultivate the sciences, literature and music and in this way contributes to the preservation and promotion of cultural heritage. The academy is a place of dialog that focuses on interdisciplinary exchange. The Academy in Mainz currently supervises 37 research projects from all disciplines with a focus on long-term basic research.
The members of the Academy are divided into three classes (Mathematics and Natural Sciences Class, Literature and Music Class, Humanities and Social Sciences Class). Carolin Gerlitz is a member of the humanities and social sciences class.