Nadine Strauss

Nadine Strauß has been Assistant Professor of Strategic Communication and Media Management at the Department of Communication and Media Research at the University of Zurich since April 2021. Previously, she completed a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellowship at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment at the University of Oxford (September 2019 – March 2021), where she studied the role of the news media for sustainable finance. Strauß is currently a board member of the Brussel-based NGO “Finance-Watch” where she advocates for a fair, transparent and sustainable financial system. 

Between 2018 and 2019, she worked as a postdoc at the Media Innovation Lab at the Department of Communication at the University of Vienna. In January 2018, Strauß obtained her Ph.D., with the thesis "News media & the stock market: Assessing mutual relationships" from the Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR) at the University of Amsterdam where she also completed a Research Master’s in Communication Science (cum laude). During her Ph.D., she undertook a research visit to the Annenberg School of Communication & Journalism at the University of Southern California.

Nadine Strauß’s research interests include, among others: sustainable/climate change communication, financial communication, journalism studies, media management, innovative and sustainable media business models, and news use in the digital environment.