Theresa Sommer has been a project manager for the Higher Education Forum on Digitalisation (Hochschulforum Digitalisierung) at CHE since 2024. Her work includes monitoring digitalisation at German higher education institutions, developing institutional strategies for teaching and learning, and advancing sustainable digitalisation. As editor-in-chief, she is also responsible for publishing the magazine strategie digital.

Before joining CHE, Theresa Sommer worked as a research associate at Bielefeld University and TU Clausthal. Her research focused in particular on political communication, public policy analysis and the role of science in political processes—especially in times of crisis and in international environmental policy.

She studied Sociology and Political Science (B.A.) at the University of Kassel and completed an M.A. in Sociology at Bielefeld University.