Torsten Koch

Torsten Koch studied Social Sciences (Political Science, Sociology, Social Psychology and Law) at the University of Hanover. He graduated in 2001, having successfully participated in the research project ‘Traditions of Historical Consciousness’ at the Department of Psychology with a thesis on story telling in intergenerational family context. From February 2001 to 2003 he worked as research assistant in the project Methods of the Empirical Social Research (MeS) under the direction of Professor Dr. Alois Wacker (Institute of Psychology at the University of Hanover). Since January 2002 he works as assistant lecturer in the Institute of Sociology and Social Psychology at the University of Hanover (Topics: Social Psychology and Social Research Methods). His research interests are New Media in academic teaching, online survey research and social memories and national socialism. He now is a member of the interdisciplinary research group “Memory and Remembering” at the Center for Interdisciplinary Memory Research at the KWI in Essen. Currently he is a doctoral candidate in Social psychology.