Curriculum Vitae

Education

  • 10/2015—10/2018
    Master of Arts (Sociology and Sociological Research)
    University of Bremen
  • 10/2011—8/2015
    Bachelor of Arts (Sociology / Psychology)
    University of Jena

Teaching Experience

  • 4/2022—9/2022
    Applied Analysis of Twitter Data using R
    Seminar at University of Stuttgart
  • 4/2018—9/2018
    Introduction to Textanalsysis
    Tutorial at University of Bremen
  • 10/2013—2/2014
    Methods for Sociological Research II
    Tutorial at University of Jena
  • 4/2013—9/2013
    Statistics I
    Tutorial at University of Jena

Employment History

  • 4/2022—12/2025
    Research Associate: Project "Interchange Forum for Reflecting on Intelligent Systems (IRIS)"
    at: University of Stuttgart
    Training BERT classifers, working with text-as-data, developing new strategies for text-annotation in a social science context.
  • 2/2022—12/2022
    Research Associate: Department of Computational Social Science
    at: University of Stuttgart
    General research and PhD candidate position. Working with text-as-data, and BERT classifiers
  • 4/2019—12/2021
    Research Associate: Project: "Aufbruch, Abbruch oder Durchbruch?"
    at: University of Wuppertal, Unversity of Stuttgart
    Data collection and cleaning of Web of Science and ProQuest data. Data analysis using Python, PL/SQL, and R
  • 1/2019—1/2019
    Contract of Specific Work: Project BioMANik
    at: University of Freiburg
    Python implementation of the edge gravity algorithm and some network analysis using it.
  • 2/2017—8/2017
    Student Assistant: Project GloFIELD
    at: University of Bremen, Institute for intercultural and international studies
    Data cleaning and descriptive network analysis on data about persons in global finance.
  • 11/2016—12/2016
    Student Assistant: Beraternetzwerke im dt. Profifußball
    at: University of Bremen
    Data crawling, cleaning and preparation of network data about professional soccer players. Creation of networks and descriptive network analysis.
  • 4/2016—6/2016
    Student Assistant: Project EXPERTIS
    at: Jacobs University Bremen, Department of Health Psychology
    Data cleaning and analysis of panel survey data
  • 3/2015—7/2015
    Student Assistant: Kompetenzzentrum Rechtsextremismus
    at: University of Jena
    Collecting data about members of the EU parliament and their voting decisions.
  • 4/2014—3/2015
    Internship: Kompetenzzentrum Rechtsextremismus
    at: University of Jena
    Collecting data about members of the EU parliament and their voting decisions.

Attended Conferences

  • 10/2024
    Computational Sociology: Methodologische Herausforderungen für Forschung und Lehre
    Bremen, Germany
  • 7/2024
    10th International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2)
    Philadelphia, USA
    Poster: Populist Content on YouTube: Online-Communication Strategies of German Parties
  • 5/2024
    16th ACM Web Science Conference 2024
    Stuttgart, Germany
    Poster: Populist Content on YouTube: Online-Communication Strategies of German Parties
  • 5/2024
    Summer School - Computational Social Science: Advances, Challenges and Opportunities
    Como, Italy
  • 9/2023
    Workshop on Computational Linguistics for the Political and Social Sciences (CPSS)
    Ingolstadt, Germany
    Poster: Popbert. Detecting populism and its host ideologies in the German Bundestag
  • 7/2023
    9th International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2)
    Copenhagen, Denmark
  • 10/2022
    Digital Workshop "Reflection on intelligent systems: towards a cross-disciplinary definition"
    Online
    Presentation: Machine Learning in Sociology: a methodological Reflection
  • 9/2022
    41. Kongress der deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie
    Bielefeld, Germany
    Presentation: Maschinelles Lernen vs. traditionelle Statistik. Ein Anwendungsbeispiel
  • 7/2022
    Summer School - BIGSSS Computational Social Science on Social Cohesion
    Groningen, Netherlands
  • 10/2019
    Workshop on Computational Text Analysis in the Social Sciences
    Norrköping, Sweden
  • 7/2019
    European Summer School on Scientometrics
    Leuven, Belgium
  • 9/2018
    39. Kongress der deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie
    Bamberg, Germany
  • 9/2017
    Third European Conference on Social Networks (EUSN)
    Mainz, Germany
  • 11/2016
    3rd GESIS Computational Social Science Winter Symposium
    Cologne, Germany
  • 9/2016
    38. Kongress der deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie
    Göttingen, Germany
  • 12/2015
    2nd GESIS Computational Social Science Winter Symposium
    Cologne, Germany
  • 10/2014
    37. Kongress der deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie
    Trier, Germany
Latest Publications
  • PopBERT. Detecting Populism and Its Host Ideologies in the German Bundestag

    Oct. 1, 2024

    Political Analysis

  • Creative Workers on the Move: How Cultural Fit to a New Organization Enhances Individual Performance

    July 9, 2024

    Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings

  • PopBERT. Detecting populism and its host ideologies in the German Bundestag

    Sept. 22, 2023

    arXiv

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