Prof. Dr. Alexander Holste

Dr. phil. habil.
Faculty of Information Science and Communication Studies

Institute of Translation and Multilingual Communication

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

  • Master's program “Terminology and Language Technology“ MATS
  • Master's program “Multilingual Specialized Communication and Specialized Translation“ MAFKÜ
  • Bachelor's program “Multilingual Communication“ BA MK

Research fields

  • Consultant of the governmental tendering authority NWL (North Rhine-Westphalia) dealing with tender processes in local public transport
    NWL
  • Project manager “TextING – STEM Writing" (Federal Ministery of Education and Research)
    TextING
  • Introduction
    Introduction, „8. Forschungstagung Fachkommunikation – die wissenschaftliche Sicht“
    07.03.2025
    Website
  • 8th Conference Specialized Communication Research (TH Cologne)
    Organizing committee: Franziska Heidrich-Wilhelms | Alexander Holste | Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski
    2025-03-07
    Weblink
  • German Association of University Professors and Lecturers
    DHV
  • German Association for Writing Processes (gefsus), Special Interest Group „Digitization“
    gefsus
  • German Association for Technical Communication
    tekom
  • International University Network in Technical Communication (IUNTC)
    IUNTC
08/2020–08/2023 Postdoctoral thesis “Automated Knowledge Communication“ (University of Hildesheim)
Open Access Postdoctoral thesis
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)

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