Three years later, he moved to the Chair of Joseph Vogl for "History and Theory of Artificial Worlds".
In 2000 he earned his doctorate in Weimar under the supervision of Joseph Vogl and German media theorist Friedrich Kittler.
From 2006 to 2010 he was full Professor for "Epistemology and Philosophy of Digital Media" at the University of Vienna, Austria.
Since 2010 Pias was a Senior Fellow at the International Research Institute for Cultural Technologies and Media Philosophy (IKKM) in Weimar, the International Research Centre for Cultural Studies (IFK) in Vienna, the Institute for Advanced Study / Wissenschaftskolleg Berlin, the Center of Excellence “Cultural Foundations of Integration” at the University of Konstanz, and the Center for Advanced Studies "BildEvidenz.
[4] He is also a member of the Graduate Schools "Loose Connections: Collectivity at the intersection of digital and urban space" in Hamburg and "Cultures of Critique" in Lueneburg.
In addition to his publishing activity[5] he supervised the publication of the critical writings in individual editions by Hermann Bahr from 2004 to 2013.
Together with Joseph Vogl, he publishes "sequenzia", a series of media science and science history at the Diaphanes publishing house Zurich/Berlin[6] 2017: Computer Game Worlds, Chicago: Chicago UP, translated by Valentin Pakis, ISBN 978-3-0358-0013-5 2016: Cybernetics.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach und die bildende Kunst, Weimar: VDG 1999: Dreizehn Vorträge zur Medienkultur, (ed.
), Weimar: VDG 1999: Kursbuch Medienkultur, with Joseph Vogl, Lorenz Engell, Oliver Fahle & Britta Neitzel (ed.
), Bielefeld: transcript 2008 2009: Powerpoint: Macht und Einfluss eines Präsentationsprogramms, with Wolfgang Coy (ed.