Professor Toepfl has completed his Doctoral Studies at the University of Passau from 2005 to 2009 and has defended his postdoctoral thesis in LMU Munich in 2017. From 2014 to 2019, Professor Toepfl has worked as the Emmy Noether Junior Research Group Leader, and since 2019 he has been the Principal Investigator for the ERC Consolidator Project RUSINFORM. He has published his research in Journal of Communication, New Media & Society, Information, Communication & Society, Communication Theory, et cetera.
Besides, starting from the 01.10.2020, the Research Unit for Political Communication is transformed into the Chair of Political Communication with a Focus on Eastern Europe and the Post-Soviet Region.
The members of the RUSINFORM team and the Emmy Noether Group congratulate Professor Toepfl on his appointment to the University of Passau and wish him all the best in his new position.