• 04/2023 to 03/2024: Visiting professor for Communication Studies with a focus on communication theory and media effects research at the Institute for Media and Communication Studies at Freie Universität Berlin

• 09/2022 to 10/2022: Visiting Scholar, The Media School, Indiana University Bloomington (USA)

• 04/2022 to 08/2022: Substitute professor for Communication Studies with a focus on strategic communication at the Institute for Communication Science at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena

• Since 01/2021: Research associate at the Institute for Journalism at the Technical University of Dortmund

• 12/2020: PhD at the Freie Universität Berlin, dissertation on the subject „Visual Politics: Investigating the Visual Communication Strategies of Political Parties and Candidates from a Longitudinal and Comparative Perspective“

• 01/2020 to 11/2020: Project manager at the infas-Institute, Bonn

• 04/2018 to 10/2018: Research associate in the DFG-Project "Regional Press Diversity in Germany and Austria 1995-2015„ (Directors: Prof. Dr. Klaus Beck and Prof. Dr. Jan Krone)

• 04/2014 to 12/2019: Research associate at the Institute for Media and Communication Studies at Freie Universität Berlin

• 10/2011 to 03/2014: Master's degree in Communication Studies at the University of  Münster

• 10/2008 to 09/2011: Bachelor's degree in Political Science at the Leibniz University Hannover
  

Summer term 2023

• BA - Seminar 28562: Einführung in die empirische Kommunikationsforschung

• MA - Seminar 28811: Visuelles Framing im Wahlkampf

• Political communication science
• Comparative research
• Multimodality

Monographs

• Steffan, D. (2021). Visual politics: Investigating the visual communication strategies of political parties and candidates from a longitudinal and comparative perspective. Nomos. https://doi.org/10.5771/9783748925415
• Vonbun-Feldbauer, R., Grüblbauer, J., Berghofer, S., Krone, J., Beck, K., Steffan, D., & Dogruel, L. (2020). Regionaler Pressemarkt und Publizistische Vielfalt. Strukturen und Inhalte der Regionalpresse in Deutschland und Österreich 1995–2015. Springer VS. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-28965-2

Journal articles with peer review process

• Steffan, D. (2020). Visual self-presentation strategies of political candidates on social media platforms: A comparative study. International Journal of Communication, 14, 3096–3118. https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/13128
• Steffan, D., & Venema, N. (2020). New medium, old strategies? Comparing online and traditional campaign posters for German Bundestag elections, 2013–2017. European Journal of Communication, 35(4), 370–388. https://doi.org/10.1177/0267323120903681
• Venema, N., & Steffan, D. (2020). Context matters: Professionalization of campaign posters from Adenauer to Merkel. Communications: The European Journal of Communication Research, 45(1), 98–121. https://doi.org/10.1515/commun-2018-2020

• Steffan, D., & Venema, N. (2019). Personalised, de-ideologised and negative? A longitudinal analysis of campaign posters for German Bundestag elections, 1949–2017. European Journal of Communication, 34(3), 267–285. https://doi.org/10.1177/0267323119830052
• Steffan, D. (2015). Glücklich mit dem Beruf, aber unzufrieden mit dem Job? Eine Analyse über die Arbeitszufriedenheit von Journalisten in Deutschland [Happy with their profession but dissatisfied with their job? An analysis of German journalists’ job satisfaction]. Studies in Communication|Media (SCM), 4(3), 248–276. https://doi.org/10.5771/2192-4007-2015-3-248

Articles in anthologies

• Steffan, D. (2023). Von Staatsmännern und bürgernahen Wahlkämpfer*innen. Eine visuelle Framing-Analyse der TV-Berichterstattung über die Kanzlerkandidat*innen Olaf Scholz, Armin Laschet und Annalena Baerbock im Bundestagswahlkampf 2021. In C. Holtz-Bacha (Ed.), Die (Massen-) Medien im Wahlkampf (pp. 243–262). Springer VS. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-38967-3_9
• Steffan, D. (2023). The visual representation of politicians. In D. Lilleker & A. Veneti (Eds.), Research Handbook on Visual Politics (pp. 109–122). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800376939.00016
• Venema, N., & Steffan, D. (2021). Kleine Parteien, unprofessionelle Kampagnen? Strukturen und Strategien der Plakatwerbung im Europawahlkampf 2019. In C. Holtz-Bacha (Eds.), Europawahlkampf 2019. Zur Rolle der Medien (pp. 149–174). Springer VS. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-31472-9_5