CeMAS was founded in March 2021. The Center now employs approximately twenty staff, including researchers working in our four main areas – disinformation, right-wing extremism, antisemitism and conspiracy ideologies – as well as experts in strategic communication and software developers.
Josef Holnburger
Managing Director
- Disinformation
- Conspiracy Ideology
- Data Science
Gregor Bauer
Chief Operating Officer & Deputy Managing Director
- Disinformation
Julia Smirnova
Senior Researcher
- Disinformation
- Propaganda
- Digital Technology
Lea Frühwirth
Senior Researcher
- Disinformation
- Propaganda
- Conspiracy Ideology
Jan Rathje
Senior Researcher
- Right-Wing Extremism
- Antisemitism
- Conspiracy Ideology
Miro Dittrich
Senior Researcher
- Right-Wing Extremism
- Far-Right Terrorism
- Data Science
Lisa Johanne Jacobs
Researcher
- Antisemitism
- Corpus Linguistics
- Digital Polarization
Corinne Heuer
Researcher & Political Communication
- Antisemitism
- Digital Polarization
Joe Düker
Researcher
- Right-Wing Extremism
- Far-Right Terrorism
Thilo Manemann
Researcher
- Right-Wing Extremism
- Far-Right Terrorism
- Nihilistic Violent Extremism
Maheba Goedeke Tort
Head of Communications
Lu Kalkbrenner
Backend Developer & Data Science
Simone Stein
Executive Assistant
Jan Kaßel
Senior Software Engineer
Martin Müller
Backend Developer