Dr Carmen Lipphardt

Dr Carmen Lipphardt heads the team of the Presentation Skills Research Unit at the Research Center for Science Communication and is also part of the four-person project management team of "Jugend präsentiert". She studied General Rhetoric and Political Science and received her doctorate with a thesis on the promotion of Presentation Skills. Her research interests relate both to the format of science presentations as an oral form of science communication and to the training of the associated skills of presenters. She is particularly interested in the interdisciplinary perspective, which is also reflected in her interest in empirical presentation research. Other fields of research include rhetorical aspects of Online Presentations, Multimodal Argumentation in Presentations and Rhetoric of Evidence. She has many years of experience in various training and coaching sessions for presentation and communication for different target groups. Her practical work also includes the training and further qualification of junior trainers as part of the Youth Presents Training Academy.