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Philippe Sloksnath

Philippe Sloksnath, MSc

  • Assistent / Research and Teaching Assistant
Phone
+41 44 635 20 58
Room number
AND 3.26

Research Interests

  • AI-Based Persuasion
  • AI-Mediated Communication
  • Misinformation
  • AI Ethics
  • Open Science

Academic Positions

2026 – 2028 Member of the Digital Society Initiative (DSI) Excellence Program, UZH.ai Fellowship
2025 – present Research and Teaching Assistant, Media Psychology & Methods Division at IKMZ, University of Zurich
2024 – 2025 Student Assistant and Tutor, Division of Individual Differences and Assessment, Department of Psychology, University of Zurich 
2024 Visiting Research Student, Policy Research Group, University of Cambridge

 

Education

2025 – present PhD (Dr. phil) in Media and Communication Science, University of Zurich 
2022 – 2024 MSc in Psychology, Unviersity of Zurich
2018 – 2022 BSc in Psychology, University of Zurich 

 

Grants

2025

UZH.ai Fellowship (CHF 50’000)
2025 Kurt Lewin Instituut (KLI) PhD Seedgrant (€ 3’000)
2025 Open Science Prize in the category “Master’s Thesis” (CHF 300)

 

Talks

Talk at the International Communication Association Conference 2026 (ICA)

Capetown, SA, 2026
Talk at the 20th Annual Conference of the Italian Association for Cognitive Sciences (AISC2024) Rome, 2024
Conference Research Presentations, University of Cambridge Cambridge, 2024

 

Service

2026 – 2028  Elected Member of the Ethics Committee of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
2026 – present Editor for the Database of Variables for Content Analysis (DOCA)