Julia Metag - Biography#

Prof. Dr. Julia Metag studied Media studies, American literature and Geography at the Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena and the Mary Immaculate College, Limerick, Ireland from 2003-2009. She was a research assistant at the University of Muenster, Department of Communication, from 2009-2013. She completed her dissertation on political communication and direct democracy in 2013. From 2013 to 2016, she served as Senior Research Assistant at the IKMZ – Department of Communication and Media Research, University of Zurich. Lectureship at the University of Luzern and University of Jena. From 2016 to 2019 she was Professor of Communication Science at the Department of Communication and Media Research (DCM), University of Fribourg, Switzerland. Dr. Metag served as the Secretary of the Environmental Communication Division of the International Communication Association (ICA) from 2016 to 2018 and as Vice chair of the Political Communication Division of the German Communication Association (DGPuK) from 2018 to 2020. Since 2019, she is a Professor for Communication Science at the Department of Communication, University of Muenster.