People
Faculty
Jacob Habinek
Jacob Habinek is an associate professor at the Institute for Analytical Sociology and director of the Swedish Interdisciplinary Research School in Computational Social Science. A computational and economic sociologist by training, his interests include the sociology of markets, science, and culture. His empirical research centers on the development of scientific disciplines, the dynamics of financial markets, and the selection of Nobel Prize laureates.
Hendrik Erz
Hendrik Erz is a PhD student at the Institute for Analytical Sociology. With a background in history, political science, and sociology, he specializes in the policymaking process in the U.S. Congress. Methodologically, he focuses on the use of large language models (LLMs) for text analysis. He is also interested in the ethics and political implications of artificial intelligence more broadly.
Alexandra Rottenkolber
Alexandra is a PhD Student in Analytical Sociology at the Institute for Analytical Sociology, Linköping University, Sweden. In her past work, she has used a variety of methodological approaches — ranging from natural language processing to network analysis — to study attention dynamics in parliaments, the digital development of nations, as well as gender segregation in the STEM disciplines. In her PhD, she plans to extend and build on this existing work.
