Meet Our Members: Jens Seiffert-Brockmann

Jens received his doctorate in 2014 at the Department of Communication at the Universität Leipzig, where he also studied communication and media studies and political science. From 2015 to 2020, he was a postdoctoral researcher in the Corporate Communication Research Group at the Department of Journalism and Communication Studies at the Universität Wien.

Jens conducts research on topics of strategic communication, with a focus on misinformation and the weaponization of communication, trust and reputation in organizational communication. Furthermore, he is interested in the impact of digital communication on organizations, especially in relation to evolutionary psychology, content management, gamification, and internet memes.

Together with Mathew Gillings from the Department of Business Communication, Jens is currently developing an international short program in partnership with the University of Cape Coast in Ghana. At the institute of Strategic Organizational Communication, Jens and his colleague Franzisca Weder have established strong ties through the ASEA UNINET program, attracting two Ernst-Mach-Scholars from Indonesia to WU.

As part of the master’s program in Business Communication, Jens is also actively building relationships to ENGAGE.EU partner universities, e.g. Norges Handelshøyskole (NHH) in Bergen, Norway, Tilburg University, Netherlands, and University of National and World Economy in Sofia, Bulgaria.