Her research focuses on social media in scholarly communication, bibliometrics and altmetrics. Stefanie is a co-director of the #scholcommlab as well as an associate member of the Centre interuniversitaire de recherche sur la science et la technologie (CIRST) and an affiliated researcher with the Canada Research Chair on the Transformations of Scholarly Communication, Université de Montréal and the Observatoire des sciences et des technologies (OST), Université de Québec à Montréal. She holds a Master’s degree in history, American linguistics and literature and information science, and a PhD in information science from Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany. Stefanie has previously worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Université de Montréal and as a bibliometric analyst at Science-Metrix, Canada as well as Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany.