Promoting young talent
The IfK supports several interdisciplinary institutions in which young researchers conduct research on important topics of the future.
At the Boysen-TU Dresden Research Training Group, doctoral students from technical, natural and social science disciplines conduct research on a wide range of issues relating to sustainable energy systems and the mobility of tomorrow. The IfK is involved in the 3rd Boysen Research Training Group "Mobility in Transition" with two communication science projects. Nassim Ghondaghsaz, M.Sc. is researching on "Trust in mobile value chains with informational character" (project B5). Supervisor is Prof. Sven Engesser. Corinna Drexler, M.A., is working on "Mobility scenarios in the judgement of public opinion and the media" (project C2). The Boysen-TU Dresden Research Training Group is funded by the Institutional Strategy of the TU Dresden and the Friedrich and Elisabeth Boysen Foundation.
The IfK also supports the Schaufler Kolleg@TU Dresden. The Kolleg supports doctoral students from the humanities and social sciences - not only financially, but also intellectually with many exchange and training opportunities. In the first project phase on the fundamentals and technical applications of AI informatics, Prof. Lutz Hagen is supervising scholarship holder Sandra Mooshammer, M.A. In her project "Abilities and Journalistic Quality of the Communicator - Automated Journalism and Their Influence on Human Journalists' Perception of the Technology", she is researching the potential and quality criteria of automated journalism and how it influences the perception of technology by human journalists. In the second project phase on the topic "Data↔Worlds. Socio-technical and Cultural Syntheses of New Realities", Prof. Lutz Hagen is supervising scholarship holder Johanna Grosche, M.A. In her project "Digital Twins: Infrastructures of Environmental Governance and Decision-Making, she investigates digital twins as crucial media infrastructures that can mediate environmental processes.