I am a Ph.D. candidate and Research Associate at the Institute for Political Science of the Technical University of Darmstadt working at the intersection of Data Science and Political Science. Before that, I graduated from the University of Mannheim with a Master degree in Data Science. My work is centered around the analysis of multimodal political communication, encompassing various channels such as parliamentary speeches, political advertisements and social media.
05/2024 — Find the preprint of our working paper How Alignment Helps Make the Most of Multimodal Data (w/ Christian Arnold) on arXiv.
05/2024 — On May 8th at 3pm CET, I’m presenting our paper on How Alignment Helps Make the Most of Multimodal Data (w/ Christian Arnold) at the Text-as-Data Reading Group Spring 2024 Speaker Series.
05/2024 — Christian Arnold and I have a new working paper: Structuring Quantitative Image Analysis with Metric Depth. We’re presenting it at the upcoming 6th Annual COMPTEXT Conference (May 2-4, 2024) in Amsterdam
02/2024 — My paper, Non-random Tweet Mortality and Data Access Restrictions: Compromising the Replication of Sensitive Twitter Studies has been accepted at Political Analysis
02/2024 — I am excited to dive deeper into the analysis of multimodal political communication as part of a research stay in February/March 2024 at University of Birmingham (School of Government/AI in Government) hosted by Slava Jankin
01/2024 — With Jan Berz, Christian Stecker, and Thomas Zittel, I’m co-directing the upcoming ECPR Summer School on Parliaments from August 17, 2024, to August 29, 2024, in Frankfurt
To address significant questions in Political Science, I employ a combination of (multimodal) deep learning models and traditional methods, contributing to both substantial and methodological research. In addition, I am passionate about teaching and imparting knowledge to others. As a research associate at TU Darmstadt, I instruct various postgraduate courses focused on quantitative methods with a focus on text-driven methods. Substantively, my interests primarily lie in the areas of political communication and legislative studies, which I believe are critical for understanding the complexities of modern political structures and discourse. As a team member of the Social Science Data Lab Blog based at the Mannheim Center for European Social Research (MZES), I do both, supporting the organization and implementation of workshops as well as contributing blog posts and input talks.
I’m happy to connect with you either via Bluesky, Twitter or by email.
Ph.D. Student and Research Associate, Ongoing
Technical University of Darmstadt
M.Sc. in Data Science, 2022
University of Mannheim
B.Sc. in Business Information Systems, 2019
University of Applied Sciences Karlsruhe