Lecturer and Professional Researcher in Science and Technology Studies, University of California, Davis

Jens Pohlmann is a Lecturer and Professional Researcher in Science and Technology Studies, University of California, Davis, working on Platform Regulation and Freedom of Speech.

He has held positions as research associate at the Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research (ZeMKI); University of Bremen as well as as Fellow at the Center for Advanced Internet Studies (CAIS); Bochum, Germany.

Jens Pohlmann was Gerda Henkel Fellow for Digital History 2018-19 at the German Historical Institute in Washington D.C. and the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University. Furthermore, he is an Associate Researcher at the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society. His research and teaching interests include 20th and 21st Century German Literature and Culture, Digital Humanities, Media Studies, and Transatlantic Internet Policy.

Jens received his PhD from Stanford University in 2017 with a thesis on the marketing strategies of avant-garde authors in the German public sphere. He was a CESTA Graduate Research Fellow from 2015 to 2016 and is currently co-organizing the 2019 Stanford German Conference: Transatlantic Sync – Germany & The US in the Era of Technological Revolution.