Nils Bienzeisler

„I’m interested in how scientific expertise is interpreted in public controversies and when it becomes an instrument in policy disputes.“

IPN – Leibniz Institute for Science and Mathematics Education
Postdoc

E-Mail: nbienzeisler@kielscn.de
Telefon: 0431-880 5976
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• since 2025: Research Associate at IPN – Leibniz Institute for Science and Mathematics Education
• 2025: PhD, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
• 2021–2025: Research Associate, Chair of Science Communication (Media Effects), KIT
• 2019–2021: Research Associate, Chair of Science Communication in the Life Sciences, University of Göttingen

• Bienzeisler, N. (2025). Of Issue Advocates and Honest Brokers: Participation of U.S. and German scientists in COVID-19 policy disputes. Public Understanding of Science 47.
• Bienzeisler, N. (2025). Wissenschaftliche Expert:innen, Aktivist:innen und Epistokrat:innen: Selbstbilder und Kommunikationsstile von Pandemie- und Biodiversitätsforscher:innen in politischen Kontroversen. Dissertation, Karlsruher Instituts für Technologie. Karlsruhe.
• Post, S. and Bienzeisler, N. (2024). The honest broker versus the epistocrat. Attenuating science skepticism by disentangling science from policy claims. Political Communication 41(3): 1–23.
• Post, S., Bienzeisler, N. and Pannach, F. (2023). An issue public’s confirmation-biased news feeding in changing political constellations: A quasi-experimental field study in the German conflict over genome editing. New Media & Society. DOI: 10.1177/14614448231185764.
• Post, S., Bienzeisler, N. and Lohöfener, M. (2021). A desire for authoritative science? How citizens’ informational needs and epistemic beliefs shaped their views of science, news, and policymaking in the COVID-19 pandemic. Public Understanding of Science 30(5): 1-19.