My name is Katrin Döveling, MA, Dipl., Dr. phil. habil. I am professor at the University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt. Before, I was professor at the Universitaet of Klagenfurt /Alpen-Adria-Universität, Austria. From 2014-2017, I was a professor at the Institute for Communication and Media Studies at the University of Leipzig, where I completed my Habilitation in 2016. I was Research Fellow and Professor for Communication and Media Studies at the Dresden University of Technology (2009-2014) and Assistant Professor at Institute for Communication Studies, Free University of Berlin (2004 –2009). I earned my PhD at the University of Erfurt, Germany with an international analysis of the role of emotions in community building media. I received a Doctoral Research Scholarship for the University of California Berkeley.
I am interested in the entire spectrum of human emotions, such as sadness, grief, joy, empathy. Currently, I am researching emotions in the context of digitalization, esp. in social media. But I am equally interested and have been in emotions humans feel towards others they do not know in person, such as Lady Diana, Robert Enke, famous stars, and emotions in the context of social mobilization.