Melanie Bartos

Melanie Bartos is a science communicator in the Public Relations Office at the University of Innsbruck in Austria, responsible for multimedia formats such as podcasts and actively shaping the university's online and social media communication. She established the university's Open Science Communication strategy, with a focus on non-profit, privacy-friendly infrastructures like the Fediverse, as well as open knowledge projects such as Wikipedia. She chairs the Social Media Working Group of the German Association for University Communication, coordinating strategic exchange across German-speaking higher education, and is part of the Save Social initiative in Germany, which advocates for open, decentralized alternatives to commercial social media. Melanie is also active in non-profit community media and independent podcasting, and regularly contributes talks and workshops on Fediverse adoption and open communication infrastructures at the national and European level.