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.

10/2024 — My six-month research stay at the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES) (Data and Methods Unit) started. I presented our project on object prominence for image-as-data (w/ Christian Arnold), and I’ll co-teach a course on Machine Learning for Social Scientists for PhD Students.

09/2024 — Find the preprint of our working paper Structuring Quantitative Image Analysis with Object Prominence (w/ Christian Arnold) on arXiv.