Finja Isabel Augsburg

• 2025 (Fall Semester) Visiting Research Fellow, American-German Institute at Johns Hopkins University, Washington, D.C. (DAAD/AGI Research Fellowship Program)
• Since 11/2023 Doctoral Researcher at the Department for Media and Communication Studies and Project Associate in the project UncertainTEAM, funded by the German Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR)
• 11/2023 M.A. Global Communication: Politics and Society, University of Erfurt
• 2022 (Fall Semester) Visiting Scholar at the Center for Media Engagement, University of Texas at Austin
• During studies: Internships at the Goethe-Institut Washington, D.C. and the U.S. Embassy Berlin, research assistant for Prof. Dr. Patrick Rössler
• 08/2021 B.A. Communication Studies / Psychology, University of Erfurt 

• Institute for Planetary Health Behaviour

• Science Communication
• (Political) crisis communication
• Transatlantic relations

Employee of the BMBF project "UncertainTEAM - Target group-oriented communication of scientific uncertainty in multiple crises" under the direction of Assistant Professor Fabian Prochazka. Link

• Augsburg, F. I., Ransom, L. A., & Stroud, S. R. (2024). Scientists as Superheroes? Communicating Complexity During COVID-19. Media Ethics Magazine, 36(1).
• Augsburg, F., Heckert, J., Lehle, R. & Vöth, C. (2023). News Choice in the Context of the Covid-19 Pandemic. In H. Sorger, B. Hoß, K. Graner & J. Anders (Eds.), Personalisation, news choice and political reporting in times of crisis. Scientific perspectives on current phenomena of political communication. Contributions to the 17th conference of the Düsseldorfer Forum Politische Kommunikation (pp. 79-106). Shaker Verlag.

• Augsburg, F., Prochazka, F., Thomm, E., & Bauer, J. (2025, September). Communicating scientific uncertainty on planetary health issues: Science journalists’ understandings, challenges and strategies. Joint annual conference of the DGPuK sections on health communication and science communication (CommPH), Munich, Germany.
• Augsburg, F., Prochazka, F., Thomm, E., & Bauer, J. (2025, June) Between Facts and Question Marks: How Journalists Understand and Handle Scientific Uncertainty in Times of Multiple Crises. 75th Annual ICA Conference, Denver, Colorado.
• Augsburg, F. (2024, October). Concepts, Actors & Networks: Examining the role of diplomacy in shaping scientific agendas and navigating ethical and global cooperation issues (Panelist). DWIH FUTURE FORUM 2024, Washington, DC.
• Augsburg, F. (2023, July). Renaissance of German-American relations amidst the Ukrainian War? Sentiment analysis of transatlantic rapprochement comparing elite and public voices on Twitter. Presentation at the 21st Annual Conference of the Transatlantic Studies Association at the University of Plymouth, England.