Isabelle Freiling receives Fulbright Scholarship

Her application was convincing: Isabelle Freiling receives a prestigious Fulbright scholarship within her PhD program at the Research Training Group "Trust and Communication in a Digitized World" . This grant enables her to go as a visiting scholar to the Department of Life Sciences Communication of the University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA) from mid-January to mid-May 2020. During this time, the communication scientist will work together with professor Michael Xenos and other colleagues on site to conduct research on trust and credibility in online social networks. "The scholarship allows me getting insights into working at an American university and the opportunity to establish new contacts and cooperations at UW-Madison" says Isabelle Freiling. "My research topic 'misinformation and trust in online social networks' is highly discussed in the US. This creates new opportunities for my dissertation, for example to conduct a comparative study between Germany and the US." Isabelle Freilings' supervisor, junior Annie Waldherr from the department of communication, also sees a major opportunity in the stay abroad: "The Fulbright Scholarship is a great honor. The University of Wisconsin-Madison is a well-known location with distinguished colleagues in communication science.