Prof. Dr. Jeanette Hofmann

Since 09/2017 Principal Investigator of the research groups “Democracy and digitization” & “Quantification and social regulation”, Weizenbaum-Institute for the Networked Society

Since 01/2017 Professor of Internet Politics, Freie Universität Berlin

Since 01/2014 Honorary Professor of Internet Politics, Central Institute of Further Education at Universität der Künste Berlin

Since 10/2013 Head of the Project Group "The Internet Policy Field", WZB

Since April 2012 Director of the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society

10/2010–09/2013 Member of Research Unit "Cultural Sources of Newness", WZB

2010–2013 Expert member, Parliamentary Enquiry Commission Internet and Digital Society, Deutscher Bundestag

10/2007–09/2010 Researcher at London School of Economics and Political Science, Centre for Analysis of Risk and Regulation

2003–2006 Member of the Collaborative Research Center 597 "Transformations of the State", Subproject "Regulation and Legitimation on the Internet", University of Bremen

2003–2004 Interim professor for Politics and Communication, Department of Political Science, University Duisburg-Essen

2000–2007 Fellow and Program Leader, Internet Governance, Research Units "Innovation und Organisation" & "New Forms of Governance", WZB

1995–1999 Member of Project Group "Kulturraum Internet" in the Research Unit "Organization and Technology", WZB

1992 Dr. rer. pol., Free University of Berlin, Thesis: Implizite Theorien in der Politik. Interpretationsprobleme regionaler Modernisierungspolitik. [Implicit Theories in Policy Discourse. An Inquiry into the Interpretations of Reality in German Technology Policy]