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09/2026 — Our DFG-funded project VideoParl (w/ Christian Arnold and Christian Stecker) now has its own website: videoparl.github.io. The project draws on more than 30,000 hours of video from all 16 German state parliaments and the Bundestag (2005–2023), covering over 100,000 speeches, to study political communication beyond words alone.

08/2026 — With Christian Arnold, I registered a pre-analysis plan for an eye-tracking experiment asking whether computer-vision algorithms actually flag what human eyes notice in political images, using precise fixation-level data as ground truth. Preregistration here.

07/2026 — We uploaded our new working paper with Christian Arnold and Christian Stecker, “Far-Right Speeches and Emotional Contagion in Parliament: Sequential and Multimodal Evidence from Germany”, to OSF. Please find it here!

04/2026 — I’ll offer a workshop titled “From Desktop to Cluster: Scaling Computational Social Science with High-Performance Computing” for participants of the 8th COMPTEXT conference in April. Additionally, I’ll present our working paper on “A Pipeline for Extracting Data from Videos of Complex Subnational Politics” (w/ Mirya Holman and Tyler Simko) as well as a working paper on “A Framework for Efficiently Annotating Audiovisual Legislative Debate” with Christian Arnold.

01/2026 — I successfully defended my PhD at the University of Mannheim.

01/2026 — I’m on a research visit at the Centre for AI and Government (University of Birmingham) until 10/2026!