Sonia Fizek

Werdegang

So­nia is a post­doc­to­ral re­se­ar­cher at the Ga­mi­fi­ca­ti­on Lab in the Cent­re for Di­gi­tal Cul­tu­res and an af­fi­lia­te at Di­gi­tal Cul­tu­res Re­se­arch Lab at Leu­pha­na Uni­ver­si­ty Lüne­burg. She com­ple­ted her MA in Elec­tro­nic Li­te­ra­tu­re at the In­sti­tu­te of Eng­lish Stu­dies at Lodz Uni­ver­si­ty (Po­land) and her PhD at the School of Crea­ti­ve Stu­dies & Me­dia at Ban­gor Uni­ver­si­ty (UK). Her doc­to­ral re­se­arch fo­cu­sed on the es­ta­blish­ment of a frame­work for play­er cha­rac­ter re­se­arch in off­line role-play­ing ga­mes. Buil­ding upon her doc­to­ral work, she is still preoc­cu­p­ied with for­ma­lism and struc­tu­ral me­thods in game stu­dies. Her most current academic interests focus on gamification, ludification of culture, playful interfaces, games for science, and audio gaming. She is also concept designing experimental games and leading seminars in game theory and analysis at Leuphana University and Hamburg Media School. In January 2015 she joined the Journal of Gaming and Virtual Worlds as the third Associate Editor.