Prof. Dr. Alexander Holste
Dr. phil. habil.Institute of Translation and Multilingual Communication

Campus Südstadt
Ubierring 48
50678 Köln
Room 431
Mailing address
+49 221-8275-5498
alexander.holste@th-koeln.de
Office hours
SoSe 2025
Tuesday, 10:00 to 11:00
Campus Südstadt, Ubierring 48, Room 431
Positions
- Series editor, “Knowledge Communication AMP: Automated – Multimodal – Polylingual“ (Publisher Frank&Timme)
- Supervisor, PhD theses (University Hildesheim)
- Member of the committee “Higher Education“, German Association for Technical Communication
Teaching disciplines
Research fields
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Knowledge construction through communicationAutomated Knowledge Communication
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Embodiment in technical communicationEmbodiment
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Multimodality in technical communicationMultimodality
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Human-machine interactionMachine agents
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Communicative EfficiencyCommunicative Efficiency
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Research on writing processesJournal der Schreibwissenschaft
Projects / Cooperations
Publications
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https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5908-1587https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5908-1587
Talks
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IntroductionWebsite
Introduction, „8. Forschungstagung Fachkommunikation – die wissenschaftliche Sicht“
07.03.2025
Conferences
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8th Conference Specialized Communication Research (TH Cologne)Weblink
Organizing committee: Franziska Heidrich-Wilhelms | Alexander Holste | Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski
2025-03-07
Memberships
Curriculum Vitae
08/2020–08/2023 |
Postdoctoral thesis “Automated Knowledge Communication“ (University of Hildesheim) Open Access Postdoctoral thesis |
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until 2023 |
Research assistant (University of Duisburg-Essen) Fundings of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) focussing on knowledge and writing processes UDE |
2020–2023 |
Lecturer, Learning Lab (University of Duisburg-Essen) Supervisor master's programs “Educational Media“ & “Educational Leadership“ (University Duisburg-Essen) Learning Lab |
2019 |
PhD thesis “Semiotische Effizienz interfachlicher Sprache-Bild-Textsorten“ (University of Duisburg-Essen) “Semiotische Effizienz interfachlicher Sprache-Bild-Textsorten“ (Forum für Fachsprachen-Forschung, Band 158), Berlin: Frank & Timme. Open Access PhD thesis |
2010–2013 |
Technical writer and consultant (Deutsche Bahn) |