Dr. Frauke Zeller

DR. FRAUKE ZELLER

Explanatory Journalism Research Program Director, Steering Committee Member Chair, & Research Project Leader

Dr. Frauke Zeller is Associate Professor in Toronto Met’s School of Professional Communication She completed her Habilitation (the highest academic degree in Germany) in 2011, working on computational methods to analyze online communities. She received her PhD (Dr.phil.) from Kassel University, Germany, in 2005 in English Linguistics and Computational Philology. Frauke has extensive experience in Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) studies combining her backgrounds in the humanities, social sciences, and HRI. She is also the co-creator of hitchBOT, Canada’s first hitchhiking robot.

From her media and communication studies background, Frauke brings methodological expertise in big data analytics, predictive analytics, sentiment analysis, natural language processing, and user studies. Frauke has been awarded with a range of major research grants, among them a Marie Curie Fellowship (2011-2013), one of the most prestigious grants in Europe, and more recently a SSHRC Insight Development Grant, as well as international grants. Frauke is also the director of the Audience Lab and the Centre for Communicating Knowledge (CCK).