Christian Kobsda
Christian Kobsda has headed the Berlin office of the Max Planck Society since 2022. Prior to that, he was political advisor to the president of the Leibniz Association and managing director of the Global Learning Council, where he is still a member of the management team. Before joining the Leibniz Association, he worked on Industry 4.0 at acatech and was a scientific advisor in the Innovation Dialogue of the then German Chancellor. He is an associate researcher at the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society and co-founder of the blog journal Elephant in the Lab. He studied political science, philosophy and economics in Passau, Rostock and at the Free University of Berlin. He is interested in science policy advice, the digital transformation of learning and teaching, and science and innovation policy.
Journal articles and conference proceedings
Fecher, B. & Kobsda, C. (2019). Meet the Research Impact Canvas. Elephant in the Lab. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3368480 Publication details
Working paper
Schmidt, M., Fecher, B., & Kobsda, C. (2017). Factory science: How many authors does it really need to write a paper? Elephant in the lab. Publication details
Other publications
Schmidt, M., Fecher, B., Kobsda, C. & Koch, E. (2020). Open Access in Near Time. Elephant in the Lab, 01.04.2020. Publication details
Fecher, B. & Kobsda, C. (2019). In 5 Schritten zur gut geplanten Kommunikationsaktivität. Wissenschaftskommunikation.de. Publication details
Kobsda, C., Schmidt, M., & Fecher, B. (2017). Authorship revised. Making a compromise between 2.1 and 1.268. Elephant in the lab. Publication details
Lectures and presentations
Re-imagining higher education: Shifting gears and shifting visionsUNIVERSITY:FUTURE FESTIVAL - LEARNING, SYSTEMS AND THE NEW NORMAL. Hochschulforum Digitalisierung. Online, Berlin, Germany: 08.10.2020 Further information
Anne Leiser, Melissa Laufer, Bronwen Deacon, Christian Kobsda
Media appearances
Wissenschaftliche Politikberatung – Vermittler zwischen zwei Systemen (19.09.2018). Wissenschaftskommunikation.de
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Wie Forscher die Zahl ihrer Publikationen künstlich nach oben treiben (10.07.2017). Berliner Zeitung
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Eine Elefantenherde im Labor (21.07.2017). TAZ
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Der Elefant im Labor (21.07.2017). Detektor.fm
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Spitzenmediziner schaffen ein Paper pro Woche !? (21.07.2017). Laborjournal Blog
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Position
Associated Researcher: Knowledge & Society
