Dennis is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Bremen (ZeMKI, Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research). His research focus is on the global governance of the Internet, platforms, AI and quantum technology. He is also a founding member of the interdisciplinary Digital Constitutionalism Network (since 2019), which deals with the role of human rights in the digital age and the increasing constitutionalization of digital technologies.
In 2015, Dennis was an intern at BKC and he was an BKC Affiliate in the 2015/2016 academic year. Between 2017 and 2021, Dennis worked as a junior researcher at the University of Bremen and a doctoral candidate at the Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences (BIGSSS). During his doctoral research, Dennis completed research stays at New York University (Center for European and Mediterranean Studies) and again at BKC. He defended his dissertation with the title “Digital Constitutionalism: Transnational Advocacy Networks and the Struggle for Human Rights in the Digital Age” in March 2021. Dennis previously studied international relations, comparative law, political philosophy and economics in Maastricht, Bremen and at the University of Connecticut.
Since obtaining a PhD, Dennis has been a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Internet Studies (CAIS) in Bochum and an AI teaching fellow of the Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft (AI Campus), an affiliated postdoc at, a Fellow at the Information Society Law Center at the University of Milan (Statale), a Young Academic Fellow at the Academy of Sciences in Hamburg, and a Visiting Professor at the Center for Technology and Society (CTS) at FGV Direito Rio (Rio de Janeiro). In teaching, Dennis focuses on research-based teaching, problem-based learning (PBL), and transnational teaching partnerships. Together with instructors from other countries in Europe, he organizes the "Digital Constitutionalism Teaching Partnership".
To carry out his research, Dennis has received grants and scholarships from the Foundation of German Industry (sdw), the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), the Swiss Federal Office of Communications (OFCOM), the European Commission (Horizon Europe), the Academy of Sciences in Hamburg, the Central Research Development Fund (CRDF) of the University of Bremen, the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the Center for Advanced Internet Studies (CAIS), the Data Science Center (DSC) at the University of Bremen, the State of Bremen, the Young European Research Universities Network (YERUN), and Facebook Research.
Outside of academia, Dennis serves as a member of the Steering Committee of the Internet Rights and Principles Coalition (2022-2024). He is actively involved in European and global digital governance institutions and exchanges, including at the Internet Governance Forum (IGF), the European Dialogue on Internet Governance (EuroDIG) and at UNESCO.
