CV
EDUCATION
PhD Political Science, Hertie School, Berlin, Doctoral Program in Governance (2020-2023)
- Title: Public Discourse in Online Environments, supervised by Simon Munzert, Ralph Hertwig and Andrew Guess, graduated with summa cum laude.
MSc. Social Data Science, University of Oxford (2019-2020)
- Interdisciplinary graduate program in Social Data Science, based at the Oxford Internet Institute, at the intersection between social science and computational science, with a practical focus on data analysis and programming with Python, Internet research and political science. Master thesis: Climate skeptic attitudes and communication in the face of opposing views on Reddit publication
MSc. Psychology, University of Kassel (2016-2019)
- First major in Social Psychology, second major in Clinical Psychology. Master thesis: Social Drivers of Individual Air Travel publication
BSc. Psychology, University of Kassel (2013-2016)
- Bachelor thesis in Psychology: Outdoor Sport and Environmental Behavior. Presentation at the AASP Conference in Toronto, 2018.
WORK
Assistant Professor of Computational Social Science, Center for Critical Compuational Studies (C3S), Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main (February 2026 - present)
Post Doctoral Researcher, Max-Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Cognition in Online Environments, Adaptive Rationality Center (Fall 2023 - Spring 2026)
Teaching Assistant, Hertie School, Introduction to Data Science (Fall 2021, Fall 2022)
Teaching Assistant, Hertie School, Statistical Modeling & Causal Inference (Spring 2021, Spring 2022)
Research Consultant, Hertie School, Data Science Lab (2020-2021)
Research Assistant, Center for Environmental Systems Research (CESR) (2017-2019)
Teaching Assistant, University of Kassel, Department of Psychology, Quantitative Methods I and II (Spring 2015, Fall 2015, Spring 2016)
Research Assistant, University of Kassel, department of Psychology, Psychology of Memory (2014-2015)
AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS
Doctoral Scholarship, German Academic National Foundation (Promotionsförderung, Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes) (2021-2023)
Best poster award 2022, PolMeth Europe
Highly commended thesis 2020, Oxford Internet Institute
Carl-Friedrich Graumann Award, German Psychological Society (DGPs), Section Environmental Psychology (2018)
Scholarship, German Academic National Foundation (Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes) (2016-2020)