Prof. Dr. Hajo G. Boomgaarden (*18.02.1977)

Department of Communication – Faculty of Social Sciences - University of Vienna

Kolingasse 14-16, A-1090 Vienna, Austria

Phone: +43-1-4277-49902 (office: +43-1-4277- 49905)

Email: hajo.boomgaarden@univie.ac.at

Website: www.hajoboomgaarden.com

ORCID ID: 0000-0002-5260-1284

Areas of Research

Political Communication, News Media, Public Opinion, Media Effects, Election Campaigns, European Union Politics, Media and Migration, Computational Social Science Methods

Academic Curriculum

2018-present        Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Vienna

2017-present        Deputy Director of the Research Centre “Vienna Centre for Electoral Research – VieCER”

2017-present        Co-Principal Investigator of the Austrian Cooperative Infrastructure for Electoral Research (ACIER)

2016-present        Deputy Scientific Director of the Austrian Social Science Data Archive (AuSSDA)

2016-2018            Vice Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Vienna

2014-present        Professor for Empirical Social Science Methods at the Department of Communication, University of Vienna

2012-2013            Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences, NIAS.

2011-2014             Associate Professor of Political Communication, Amsterdam School of Communication Research

2009                     Visiting scholar at the Media and Communications Department, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia.  

2007-2011            Assistant Professor of Political Communication, Amsterdam School of Communication Research

2007                     Ph.D. (with honors), Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, University of Amsterdam.

2003                    Master of Arts (with honors), Department of Communication Science, University of Amsterdam.