Prof. Dr. Alexander Holste

Dr. phil. habil.

Institute of Translation and Multilingual Communication

Campus Südstadt
Ubierring 48
50678 Köln
Mailing address

Office hours

SoSe 24
Thursday, 14:00 to 15:00
Campus Südstadt, Ubierring 48, Room 431

Series editor, “Knowledge Communication AMP: Automated – Multimodal – Polylingual“ (Publisher Frank&Timme)
Member of the committee “Higher Education“, German Association for Technical Communication
Reviewer for the “Journal of Professional and Scientific Communication“
Supervisor, PhD and master theses (TH Cologne, University Duisburg-Essen, University Hildesheim)
Member of the PhD committee “Interaktionen und Rückkopplungen als Einfluss auf fachkommunikatives Handeln“ (Hr. Schenda M. Sc.)

Human-chatbot interaction as part of corporate communications
Machine agents
Writing processes, especially in Technical Documentation
Semiotic Efficiency
Knowledge construction through communication
Automated Knowledge Communication
Communicative Efficiency
Communicative Efficiency
Multimodality & embodiment in mono-/multilingual specialized communication
Multimodality & Embodiment

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

German Association of University Professors and Lecturers

DHV
German Association for Applied Linguistics

GAL
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

Award “Professional Communication“ (German Association for Applied Linguistics)

GAL/doctima Award

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)