Dr Tim Schatto-Eckrodt is a communication scholar at the University of Hamburg, specialising in misinformation, conspiracy theories, and the resilience of democratic discourse. Dr Schatto-Eckrodt holds a PhD (magna cum laude) from the University of Münster, with his dissertation developing a communication science framework for online conspiracy theories. His research combines communication science and computational social science, focusing on the analysis of the content and effects of journalistic and alternative media.
He has served as a research associate at the Chair for Online Communication at the University of Münster (IfK):
- from October 2017 to April 2019 in the BMBF project "PropStop", where he researched methods to identify attempts to influence public opinion through online propaganda;
- From May 2019 to October 2022 in the junior research group "Democratic Resilience in Times of Online Propaganda, Fake news, Fear and Hate speech (DemoRESILdigital)".
Since October 2022, he is a research associate at the Chair for Digitalized Communication + Sustainability of Prof. Dr Katharina Kleinen-von Königslöw at the University of Hamburg.
