From 2010 to 2019, he was editor-in-chief of Spektrum der Wissenschaft, the German edition of Scientific American.

[1] From 1998 to 2000, he wrote his dissertation on the literary, aesthetic, and political-ideological reception of relativity theory and quantum mechanics during the Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany.

In this position, he played a key role in the development of the popular science magazine Gehirn & Geist, founded in 2002, which provides interdisciplinary coverage of neuroscience, psychology, artificial intelligence, and philosophy of mind, and which was later, since 2004, published in the U.S. as an adapted edition under the title Scientific American Mind.

He was also the founding scientific director of the German National Institute for Science Communication in Karlsruhe, jointly funded by KIT and the Klaus Tschira Foundation.

He postulated the emergence of entirely new multimodal exploitation chains for scientific content and analyzed opportunities, e.g. for more precise target group engagement and for more educational equity, but also risks due to incorrect automated information, targeted disinformation and misuse.