Wolfgang Frindte

Wolfgang Frindte, Prof. i.R. Dr. phil. habil. (born 1951). Doctorate 1981, habilitation 1987 and appointment to the Chair of Social Psychology at FSU Jena. Head of the Department of Communication Psychology there from 2008 to 2017. Visiting professor at the University of Innsbruck 1998–2005. Fellow at the University of Haifa 2004. Since 2007 academic director of the “Human Communication” degree programme at DIU Dresden. Since 2017 spokesperson of the academic advisory board of the IDZ Jena. Research focus: research on terrorism, xenophobia, antisemitism, right-wing extremism, digital media.