Sebastian Stoppe is a media scholar and an officer for online communication at the Saxony-Anhalt State Institute for School Quality and Teacher Qualification (LISA). In this capacity, he serves as editor-in-chief of the Saxony-Anhalt Education Server.

His research work circles one question: how are invented worlds built so that they hold together?

With Star Trek, the subject of his most recent book, that means keeping a future coherent across sixty years and twelve television series. The same question runs through his work on film music and musical storytelling, computer games, and adaptation across media. Journalists and podcasters regularly ask him about science fiction and utopian thinking.

Previously, he spent nine years at Leipzig University Library, helping to build FID Media (formerly adlr.link), the national resource portal for media, communication and film studies. Earlier still, he wrote, directed and produced documentaries and concert films — where his interest in film music began.

He currently contributes to the editorial board of the open-access journal “Medienwissenschaft: Berichte und Papiere”.