Jörg Matthes

University of Zurich, Institute for Mass Communication and Media Research

He studied Psychology, Communication, Philosophy and Intercultural Business Communication at the Friedrich-Schiller University in Jena, Germany. Prior to joining the University of Zurich, he worked as researcher at the Department of Communication Science (University of Jena) in projects about trust in media and the public perception of biotechnology.

His research focuses on the process of public opinion making, confidence in media, news framing, advertising impact and empirical methods. He has published his articles about his research activities in several national and international professional journals. He received the prestigious top dissertation award from the German Communication Association, the Faculty of Arts of the University of Zurich and the Swiss Association for Market and Social Research.

He is head of the Methods Division of the Swiss Communication Association. During July and August 2008, he was visiting scholar at the School of Communication at the Ohio State University. Since August 2009, he holds an assistant professorship for Political Communication and Political Behaviour with the NCCR Democracy.