Andreas Nanz is a researcher at the Department of Communication at the University of Vienna since October 2018. His main research interests include political communication, incidental exposure to political information, information processing, effects of social media as well as political participation.

• 2023, May
  Political Communication Division PhD Dissertation Award, International Communication Association (ICA), for the dissertation Incidental exposure in the online world: Antecedents, mechanisms, and consequences

• 2022, December
  sowi:doc Award, Vienna Doctoral School of Social Sciences (ViDSS), University of Vienna, for the dissertation Incidental exposure in the online world: Antecedents, mechanisms, and consequences

• 2021, August
  Fourth Place Paper Award for the paper Seeing political information online incidentally. Effects of first- and second-level incidental exposure on democratic outcomes, Political Communication Division, (virtual) AEJMC annual convention (co-author: Jörg Matthes)