People
Faculty
Lena Hipp
Head of the Work & Care research group at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center and professor of Social Inequality & Social Policy at the University of Potsdam. Researchess social inequalities related to paid and unpaid care work and relies on a broad spectrum of methods and data, including survey, experimental, and digital data.
Stefan Munnes
Sociologist and research fellow in the Work & Care research group at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center. Interested in all kinds of social inequalities, currently researching gender inequalities and antisemitism. Furthermore, mainly engaged in computational methods, such as (automated) text analysis and graphical illustrations. Likes to share this knowledge and ask new questions and work through challenges in a team. Last year, he participated in SICSS Lisbon.
Armin Sauermann
Armin Sauermann is a researcher at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center. He recently completed his Sociology Masters at the University of Potsdam and will pursue his PhD. Armin analyzes large-scale observational data and is learning to collect and analyze internet-based data to study group processes and political extremism. Last year, he participated in SICSS Helsinki.Speakers
Clara Bersh
Clara is a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science at the Max Planck School of Cognition and specializes in Artificial Intelligence at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development at the Center for Humans and Machines in Berlin. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf and a Master of Science in Psychology from the University of Cologne, with studies abroad in the United States and the United Kingdom. Before joining the Max Planck School, she studied Computer Science at the FernUniversität Hagen. Clara's research at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development focuses on collaborative ontology and knowledge engineering with an emphasis on knowledge graphs, real-time information extraction, and application design for intuitive human-machine interaction and effective facilitation of human reasoning and decision-making. 09/07 The world in knowledge graphs
Christian Rauh
Christian Rauh is a senior researcher in the Global Governance unit of the WZB Berlin Social Science Center and a Professor for the 'Politics of Multilevel Governance' at the University of Potsdam. His research and teaching interests lie at the intersection of EU studies, international relations and comparative politics. His is particularly interested in decision-making of the European Commission and the public political debates about European and international institutions. Christian's work aims to combine solid theory with innovative empirical analysis - often involving web scraping, quantitative text analysis, and advanced data visualization. 11/07 How web scraping and large-N text analyses can shed light on (European Union) politics
Miriam Schirmer
15/07 Trauma and Violence Detection with Natural Language Processing
Sophia Hunger
Sophia Hunger is professor of Computational Social Sciences at the University of Bremen and research fellow at the Center for Civil Society Research. Until April 2023 she was a postdoctoral researcher at the Center and involved in a research project on protest and political radicalization in Germany, after receiving her doctorate from the European University Institute in 2020. Her research focuses on protest movements, political engagement, party competition, political communication, and applied quantitative methods, particularly quantitative text analysis and automated event extraction. Currently, her largest methodological undertaking is the automatization of Protest Event Analysis with cutting-edge methods in order to facilitate research on how protest shapes and affects modern societies. She is furthermore interested in developing new methods to measure positions, polarization, and resonance in political communication and public debate. 16/07 Automatic protest event analysisTeaching Assistants
Participants
Melissa Panlasigui
Melissa Panlasigui ist seit Februar 2024 wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin der Forschungsprofessur „Arbeit, Familie und soziale Ungleichheit“. Im Rahmen ihrer Promotionsarbeit beschäftigt sie sich mit dem Thema der Gleichstellung von Frauen und Männern in Orchestern. Sie ist auch als Dirigentin tätig und war Bundeskanzlerstipendiatin der Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung.
David Meiering
David Meiering is a PhD candidate at the chair for German Politics and the Chair of Integration Research and Social Policy at Humboldt University Berlin. His dissertation project focuses on how political narratives contribute to the construction of anti-pluralist alliances between seemingly disparate groups. He is also interested in understanding radicalization processes, mobilization of groups and movements, and especially the normalization of the far right. Therefore, he combines in-depth qualitative methods with quantitative text analysis.Jing Zhou
Jing Zhou is a Ph.D. candidate at Wuhan University and is now a visiting student in archival studies at the University of Amsterdam. Her research interests include multimodal archives, digital humanities, natural language processing, etc. She is working on her dissertation on scientists’ archives and digital storytelling.
Ilaria Vitulano
Ilaria Vitulano is a Doctoral Researcher in the group “Platform Algorithms and Digital Propaganda” at Weizenbaum Institute. Her current research interests include how state-controlled narratives enter the media and reach the public through social media algorithmic curation mechanisms.
Jannis Hertel
Jannis Hertel is a Research Fellow at the Berlin Social Science Center WZB. In the project “Access to Justice in Berlin” he is currently using quantitative data analysis to investigate the influence of social inequality factors on civil court proceedings at Berlin courts.
Kaylee Matheny
Kaylee Matheny is an incoming Assistant Professor at Georgetown University's McCourt School of Public Policy. She uses mixed methods to examine socioeconomic inequality in education through three strands of work: evaluating equitable policies and practices, understanding people’s educational experiences as classed, and analyzing how socioeconomic status intersections with other social identities. She holds a BA from Emory University as well as an MA and a PhD from Stanford University, and she was most recently a Postdoctoral Fellow at Johns Hopkins' Poverty and Inequality Research Lab. She loves all things books, board games, and puzzles.
Paula Hoffmeyer-Zlotnik
Paula Hoffmeyer-Zlotnik is a postdoctoral researcher at the Universty of Cologne. She obtained her PhD from the University of Geneva in 2023, and has held visiting positions at the European University Institute and the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies. Her research interests include migration policies and politics in Europe, the links between trade and migration policy and the politics of the European Union.Boris Nurdinov
Boris Nurdinov is MA student in the University of Siegen. His research and professional interests are democratisation, digital media, and citizens' attitudes and behaviour. Before starting his MA degree in Siegen, he worked in non-profit and research projects on civic education, foreign media influence and youth engagement.