Nina Hahne is responsible for research management, especially committees and evaluation. She has the following tasks:
- Evaluation preparations and quality management
- Monitoring the external funding landscape and advising on grant applications
- Supporting the committees (Advisory Board, Supervisory Board, Shareholders’ Meeting)
- Deputy Editor Internet Policy Review, co-published by CAIS and the Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG)
Curriculum vitae
Nina Hahne has been working at CAIS since 2018. Until early 2026, she was responsible for career development and networking. In this role, she developed the open network “PhDnet@CAIS”, and – as part of an interinstitutional working group on career development – the “Digitalisation Research Qualification Programme” (QPD) and the joint event series for early-career researchers “Digitalisation Research and Network Meeting” (DigiMeet) and “Digitalisation Research Seminar” (DigiSem), in a collaboration between CAIS and the Bavarian Research Institute for Digital Transformation (bidt), the Leibniz Institute for Media Research | Hans Bredow Institute (HBI) and the Weizenbaum Institute (WI).
Nina Hahne completed her doctorate in literary studies at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg with a dissertation on essayistic writing as a technology of the self in the Age of Enlightenment (2013).
From 2008 to 2011, she was a fellow in the research focus of the federal state of Saxony-Anhalt: “Enlightenment – Religion – Knowledge. Transformations of the Religious and the Rational in Modernity” at the Interdisciplinary Centre for European Enlightenment Studies (IZEA) in Halle (Saale).
She obtained her master’s degree at the Ruhr University Bochum in Modern German Literary Studies, Linguistics and English Studies (2006).
