Latest News

09/2025 — New article published at West European Politics! The sound of party competition: how applause reflects unity, disagreement, and the electoral cycle in parliaments (w/ Jochen Müller and Christian Stecker) studies how applause during parliamentary debates reflects different aspects of party competition.

07/2025 — Our study at the EJPR, The Politics of Seeking and Avoiding Discourse in Parliament (w/ Elias Koch) was featured at the European Public Policy Blog of the LSE European Institute.

04/2025 — We’re presenting our working paper (w/ Christian Arnold and Christine Sheldon) on Polarization in Bi-Directional Political Communication: Analysing the Language of Abgeordnetenwatch Questions and Answers at the 75th Poitical Science Association Conference in Birmingham from 14-16 Apr 2025 and at the 7th annual COMPTEXT Conference 2025 in Vienna from 24-26 April 2025. Additionally, we’re going to present another working paper (w/ Christian Arnold and Oliver Rittmann) on Identifying Meaningful Visual Content in Social Media Images at COMPTEXT.

04/2025 — Our paper (w/ Elias Koch), The Politics of Seeking and Avoiding Discourse in Parliament is out as EarlyView at the European Journal of Political Research (EJPR).

12/2024 — Kick-off for our DFG project! With multimodal machine learning, we (w/ Christian Arnold and Christian Stecker) study 15,000h of German parliamentary speeches. Stay tuned for how MPs handle populism, how facial expressions send coalition signals and dynamics of salience.

Working Papers

Measuring Media Slant through Image Analysis
Striving for Confrontation? Opposition Status, Gender, and the Far Right (Under Review)
Polarization in Bi-Directional Political Communication: Analysing the Language of Abgeordnetenwatch Questions and Answers
Extracting Image, Voice, and Text Data from Complex Local Public Meetings
Structuring Quantitative Image Analysis with Object Prominence (Under Review)
Alignment Helps Make the Most of Multimodal Data (Under Review)

Teaching

  • Fall 2024: Machine Learning for Social Scientists (PhD graduate school course, MZES Uni Mannheim (with Ruben Bach))
  • Spring 2024: Analysis and Comparison of Political Systems (Undergraduate proseminar, Technical University of Darmstadt)
  • Spring 2023: Quantitative Text Analysis in R (Postgraduate seminar, Technical University of Darmstadt)
  • Fall 2022 & Fall 2023: Introduction to Quantitative Methods in R (Postgraduate seminar, Technical University of Darmstadt)
  • Spring 2017: IT Security and Operating Systems (Undergraduate tutorial, University of Applied Sciences Karlsruhe)
  • Fall 2016: Programming II (Undergraduate tutorial, University of Applied Sciences Karlsruhe)
  • Spring 2016: Introduction to Business Informatics (Undergraduate tutorial, University of Applied Sciences Karlsruhe)

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