Christian Stöcker, born in 1973, is a cognitive psychologist and since autumn 2016 professor at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, where he is in charge of the new MA in digital communications. He became editor at Spiegel Online's science and Net World sections in 2005, and has been head of the latter since February 2011. In 2010, he was awarded the German Psychology Association's prize for science journalism. He has also been included in a series of key publications issued by the National Centre for Political Education.