The scholar Swen Seebach (PhD) has achieved his Diplom (BA+MA) in Political Sciences from the University of Leipzig. He has studied as part of his ERASMUS at the University of Sussex. Seebach did his doctoral degree in the Study of the Information and Knowledge Society at the Open University of Catalonia (Internet Interdisciplinary Institute) in collaboration with the University of Halle and gained his International Doctoral Degree (excellent cum laude and with special honours in 2013). He achieved the Special Award for the best doctoral thesis of his year in 2014. In 2014 Seebach achieved a postdoc researcher position at the IN3. In 2014 and 2015 Seebach has worked as junior Associated Professor at the UAO CEU and the UOC. In 2015 he gained the Juan de la Cierva formación scholarship from the Spanish Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competition which allowed him to work as researcher at the Autonmous University of Barcelona. From Swen Seebach forms part of the research group PROTCIS (former GRECS). Seebach has been contracted as researcher in two European Research projects in which he played the role of a field observer and mediator for interdisciplinarity. Seebach has published in various journals and books. He has published a book with the prestigious editorial Routledge. He has published two articles with JCR 1 Quartil, and 5 articles with JCR 3 Quartil. He has also published articles with Scopus and has various other publications of which some are with important scholars in the field of social research.