PhD
Tobias R. Keller is a visiting postdoctoral fellow in the Digital Media Research Center at Queensland University of Technology, Australia. He acquired an “Early Postdoc.Mobility” grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation after he had successfully defended his dissertation at the Department of Communication and Media Research at the University of Zurich, Switzerland.
Tobias’s research focuses on the spread of political messages on social media platforms, especially on the prevalence, activity, and impact of social bots in election campaigns.
Tobias received the Top Paper Award from the Political Communication’s Division at ICA in 2018. His studies have been published in journals such as Political Communication, Communication Research, Journal of Information Technology & Politics, Social Media + Society, and others.