After studying journalism and communication science with minors in cultural and economic geography, political science and sociology at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Cornelia Wolf completed her doctorate in 2014 at the University of Passau (with Prof. Dr. Ralf Hohlfeld) on the institutionalisation of mobile journalism in Germany. From 2009 to 2014, she worked there as a research assistant at the Chair of Communication Studies (2009-2010) and at the Chair of Computer-Mediated Communication (2010-2014). In 2014, she took on the junior professorship for online communication (with tenure track) at the University of Leipzig, where she was also appointed as an associate professor in 2018.
Cornelia Wolf's research focuses on the institutionalisation of innovative technologies in the content production of non-profit organisations, companies and in journalism, as well as on multi-, cross- and transmedial storytelling. In addition, she deals with specific challenges in science communication. Since 2016, she has also contributed her professional expertise as a jury member of the German Prize for Online Communication, among other things.
Cornelia Wolf teaches at the Institute of Communication and Media Studies in the master's degree programmes Communication Management and Journalism as well as in the bachelor's degree programme Communication and Media Studies on the theory and practice of communication management of non-profit organisations as well as digital transformation, the theory and practice of digital journalism and in the field of qualitative and quantitative methods of empirical communication studies. Since 2015, she has also been responsible for the internationalisation and the Erasmus+ programme of the Institute.