Wolfgang Donsbach is a professor of communication at the Department of Communication at Technische Universität Dresden, Germany, of which he also has been the founding director. He received his PhD and his postdoctoral dissertation (Habilitation) at the University of Mainz. Prior to his current position he taught at the universities of Dortmund, Mainz and Berlin. 1989/90 he was a fellow at the Gannett Center for Media Studies, Columbia University, New York, and 1999 Lombard Visiting Professor at Harvard University. From 1995 to 1996 he was president of the World Association for Public Opinion Research (WAPOR), from 1992 to 2002 president of the IAMCR section Psychology and Public Opinion, and from 2004 to 2005 president of the International Communication Association (ICA). Donsbach is managing editor of the "International Journal of Public Opinion Research" (Oxford University Press) and general editor of the eleven-volume "International Encyclopedia of Communication" (Blackwell Publishing, in preparation) . His main research interests are in journalism, political communication, public opinion, and exposure to communication.

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