About – Sebastian Stoppe

Introducing Sebastian

Since 2023 Officer for Online Communication and Task-related Public Relations, Saxony-Anhalt State Institute for School Quality and Teacher Qualification (LISA); Editor-in-Chief, Saxony-Anhalt Education Server
2014 – 2023 Project Manager and Research Associate, Leipzig University Library, Specialised Information Service for Media, Communication and Film Studies (FID Media; formerly adlr.link)
2005 – 2016 Founder and Managing Director, La Marée Filmproduktion
2010 – 2014 Research Associate, Research Academy, Leipzig University
2009 – 2012 Visiting Lecturer, Institute for Communication and Media Studies, Leipzig University
Previously worked for EuroArts Music International GmbH, Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk, Kontur 21 Gesellschaft für Marktforschung, Kommunikation und Design mbH, and Braunschweiger Zeitung

Since 2023 Member, Working Group on Participation and Fan Research, Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft
Since 2020 Jury Member, “Nachwuchspreis des Büchner-Verlags”
Since 2019 Member of the Editorial Board, “Medienwissenschaft: Berichte und Papiere”
Since 2019 Member, Working Group on Open Media Studies, Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft
Ongoing Peer Reviewer for various academic journals, including Zeitschrift für Fantastikforschung and Kieler Beiträge zur Filmmusikforschung and others
2022 – 2023 Member of the Editorial Board, Open Library Medienwissenschaft, transcript Independent Academic Publishing
2018 – 2023 Reviewer, German Research Foundation (DFG)
2018 – 2023 Member, Expert Group “General”, Regensburg Library Classification (RVK)
2013 – 2021 Series Editor, “Medienrausch”

2014 Dr. phil., Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
2005 M.A. (Magister Artium), Leipzig University
1998 – 2005 Studies in Communication and Media Studies, Political Sciences, and Modern History, Leipzig University

2024 Nominee, Communicator Award – A Tribute to Star Trek Fandom, category “Authors and Writers”

2025 Panel Chair, Conference “Neue digitale Öffentlichkeiten – Ende des Journalismus oder demokratische Medienlandschaft von morgen?”, HTWK Leipzig
2025 Co-Host/Co-Organizer, ScienceMashup “Games und Bücher”, Lange Nacht der Computerspiele, HTWK Leipzig
2024 Co-Host/Co-Organizer, ScienceMashup “Games und schulische Bildung”, Lange Nacht der Computerspiele, HTWK Leipzig
2023 Panel Chair, Conference “Neue Plattformen – neue Öffentlichkeiten”, HTWK Leipzig
2022 Panel Chair, 8th Library Congress Leipzig
2019 Panel Chair, 7th Library Congress Leipzig
2018 Panel Chair, 107th German Librarians’ Conference, Berlin
2014 Panel Chair, Conference “Alternative Cinéphilie(n). Filmkulturen im Umbruch 1945-1989”, Zentrum für Wissenschaft und Forschung | Medien e. V. Leipzig
2012 Co-Organizer, Conference “Mashup”, Zentrum für Wissenschaft und Forschung | Medien e. V. Leipzig
2012 Co-Organizer, Seminar “Junge Wissenschaft und Praxis”, Research Academy Leipzig
2010 – 2013 Co-Organizer, Science Slams, Kompetenzschule ELSYS, Research Academy Leipzig

Winter Term 2012/13 Module “Tagungsorganisation”, Kompetenzschule ELSYS, Research Academy, Leipzig University
Winter Term 2011/12 Seminar “Einführung in das journalistische Arbeiten”, B.A. Kommunikations- und Medienwissenschaft, Leipzig University
Winter Term 2011/12 Module “Tagungsorganisation”, Kompetenzschule ELSYS, Research Academy, Leipzig University
Winter Term 2010/11 Seminar “Einführung in das journalistische Arbeiten”, B.A. Kommunikations- und Medienwissenschaft, Leipzig University
Winter Term 2009/10 Seminar “Einführung in das journalistische Arbeiten”, B.A. Kommunikations- und Medienwissenschaft, Leipzig University