Dr. Cornelia Bogen, M.A., studied British/American Studies, Media and Communication Studies and Political Science (M.A.) at Martin-Luther-University, Halle-Wittenberg/Germany (MLU) and at the University of Sheffield/England. During her studies, she was student assistant at the Department of Sociology, the Department of Media and Communication Studies, and the University library (MLU). Besides, she worked as a journalist in the field of radio broadcasting (MDR) and as an associate in a curation agency arranging a city jubilee. In 2006 she was research assistant in the project „Senior Citizens in the civil media of Saxony-Anhalt", from 2006 to 2009 PhD student in doctorate program of the Network of Excellency "Enlightenment - Religion - Knowledge", Saxony-Anhalt. She finished her doctoral thesis in 2010 in media and communication studies entitled "The enlightened patient. Structures and problems of health communication in the book and press culture in the 17th and 18th century. With an excursus to digital communication in the internet". Since October 2010 she has been working at Tsinghua University, Beijing/China as a Post Doc researcher (DAAD) on contemporary transformation processes of Chinese health communication and intercultural aspects of health communication. Her present projects focus on the influence of new media technology on doctor-patient-interaction and on current examples of promoting health literacy to the people in China. Teaching experience in academia and in teaching German as a foreign language (gGmbH). Publications (articles/essays, monographs, editions) on modern European and Chinese health communication, elder adults and their media use, cultural processes of enlightenment.