Prof. Dr. Imke Hoppe

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Dr. phil. in Human Geography

Prof. Imke Hoppe is a communication scientist with a focus on climate and sustainability. Since April 2023, she has been appointed to the professorship 'Science Communication and Climate Education' in the Department of Geography at the Faculty of Geosciences (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München).

Research Interests

Her research focuses on empirical and conceptual approaches to climate communication and sustainability communication with theoretical lenses from science communication, political communication, research on media effects and audience studies. Additionally, her research interests reflect the role of technology, e.g. in context of traffic and CDR (Carbon Dioxide Removal). Imke Hoppe has broad expertise in quantitative methods, qualitative methods, and mixed methods as well as computational social sciences.

Academic Career 

Previously, she held positions at the DLR Institute of System Engineering for Future Mobility and as a postdoc at the Chair of Journalism and Communication Studies (Universität Hamburg). She worked at the Cluster of Excellence CliSAP ('Integrated Climate System Analysis and Prediction') and as deputy head of department at the Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology IDMT. She received her doctorate in 2014 at the Institute for Media and Communication Studies (IfMK/TU Ilmenau).

Selected Publications

• Hoppe, I; Hagemann, W.; Stierand, I., Hahn, A., Bolles, A. (2024). Challenges for trustworthy autonomous vehicles: Let us learn from life. Systems Engineering, https://doi.org/10.1002/sys.21744
• Hoppe, I. & Kleinen-von Königslöw, K. (2023): ‘This is part of everything that is wrong with the world” – A Comparative Analysis of Sustainability Framing in Social Media Discussions about Food in Five Countries.’ Environmental Communication. Online unter: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17524032.2023.2212136.
• De-Silva, F.; Brüggemann, M.; Hoppe, I.; Arlt, D. (2022): ‘Learning about climate politics during COP 21 - Explaining a diminishing knowledge gap’, Public Understanding of Science (PUS).
• Hoppe, I. and Rödder, S. (2019). ‘Speaking with one voice for climate science — climate researchers’ opinion on the consensus policy of the IPCC’. JCOM 18 (03). Online unter https://doi.org/10.22323/2.18030204
• Taddicken, M.; Kohout, S. & Hoppe, I. (2019): How Aware Are Other Nations of Climate Change? Analyzing Germans’ Second-Order Climate Change Beliefs About Chinese, US American and German People, Environmental Communication, Online unter https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17524032.2018.1561483
• Taddicken, M., Reif, A. and Hoppe, I. (2018): What do people know about climate change — and how confident are they? On measurements and analyses of science related knowledge. JCOM 17 (03), Online unter https://doi.org/10.22323/2.17030201

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