Our Data Science Experts

Get to know researchers and their projects at the University of Mannheim in our monthly “Data Science Insights” interviews.

What role does Data Science play for researchers at the University of Mannheim? What are the research projects about? Interviews with researchers who provide insights into their work on the topic of data science are regularly published here.

If you would like to participate in the interview series, please feel free to contact us.

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Selina Zajdler, Research Methods and Psychological Assessment: Experimental Analysis of Individual Differences in a Pervasive Judgment Bias (April 2025)

Selina Zajdler is a PhD student at the University of Mannheim and a member of the research training group “Statistical Modeling in Psychology” (SMiP). She earned both her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in psychology at the University of Mannheim, with minors in computer science and mathematics.

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Sabrina Yufang Sun, Chair of Financial Markets and Financial Instiutions: Socio-psychological factors in the financial markets (February 2025)

Sabrina Yufang Sun is a doctoral candidate in the Finance Area at the University of Mannheim. Before coming to Germany, she completed her Bachelor's degrees in Psychology, Mathematics and Germanic Studies at Indiana University Bloomington and worked as an experimental social psychologist at Harvard ...

Oliver Rittmann steht vor einer Glastür. Er trägt einen dunklen Pullover und hat hellblonde Haare.

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Oliver Rittmann, Mannheim Center for European Social Sciences (MZES): Attention during parliamentary debates (January 2025)

Oliver Rittmann is a Lorenz-von-Stein Research Fellow at the Mannheim Center for European Social Sciences (MZES). In his research, he uses computational methods for the analysis of audio, image, and video data to answer political science questions in the areas of political representation, ...

Wladislaw Mill steht im Freien. Er trägt ein hellblaues Hemd und hat dunkle Haare.

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Wladislaw Mill, Assistant Professor of Behavioral Economics: Computer Vision (December 2024)

Wladislaw Mill is an Assistant Professor of Behavioral Economics since 2018. He completed his Bachelor’s degree in Business Mathematics in 2011 and a Master’s in Philosophy in 2012, both at the FAU Erlangen, followed by a Master’s in Business Mathematics in 2014 and a PhD in Economics in 2018 at FSU ...

Foto von John Collins im Freien. Er hat lange rotblonde Haare und trägt eine Brille und ein grünes Hemd.

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John Collins, MZES: Prediction-based Adaptive Designs for Panel Surveys (PrADePS) (November 2024)

John ‘Jack’ Collins is a PhD Student in Sociology at the Graduate School of Economic and Social Sciences. He holds a Bachelor’s of Sociology with Honours from the Australian National University. Jack has a Master’s degree in Data Science from James Cook University. His Master’s project was regarding ...

Thilo Dieing is standing in front of a university building. He has blond hair and is wearing glasses, a white shirt and a dark blue suit.

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Thilo Dieing, Chair of Artificial Intelligence: TransforMA and NEST-BW

Thilo Dieing is a social data scientist at the Chair of Artificial Intelligence of Prof. Heiner Stuckenschmidt at the University of Mannheim. At the chair, he is researching the topic of AI-supported study orientation and, together with his team, is developing a variety of new ways to improve study ...

Spike Gibbs steht vor dem Portal im Ehrenhof. Er hat kurze dunkle Haare und trägt Anzug und Krawatte.

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Alex Spike Gibbs, Junior Professorship for Economic History of the Middle Ages: Historical Data (September 2024)

Spike Gibbs has been Junior Professor for the Economic History of the Middle Ages in the Chair group for Medieval History since January 2022. He studied for his undergraduate degree in history at the University of Cambridge (from 2011 to 2014) and his masters in medieval history at King’s College ...

Giuliana Manganaro sitzt im Freien auf einer Bank. Sie hat lange dunkle Haare, trägt eine weiße Bluse und einen schwarzen Rock.

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Giuliana Francesca Manganaro, Chair of Sales & Service Marketing: Marketing the organizational Purpose (August 2024)

In order to better understand the success of companies and individuals, Giuliana Francesca Manganaro studied Finance in Frankfurt (B.Sc.) and Philosophy in Mannheim (M.A.). During her studies, she focused on gaining insights into market and motivational psychology, which she is now deepening in her ...

Larissa Will steht vor dem Haupteingang des Schlosses im Ehrenhof. Sie hat Locken, trägt eine Brille und einen schwarzen Blazer.

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Larissa Will, Mannheim University Library: Automated Text Recognition (OCR) (July 2024)

Larissa Will is a consultant for research data management and digitization at the University Library's Research Data Centre. She is responsible for advising researchers in the field of (digital) humanities with regard to research data. Her main areas of expertise include automated text recognition ...

Ruben Bach steht in einem hellen Flur vor Glastüren. Er hat kurze blonde Haare, trägt eine Brille und einen dunklen Pullover.

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Ruben Bach, Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES): New Data and Methods for Social Science Research (June 2024)

Ruben Bach is a research fellow in the Data and Methods Unit of the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES). His research is rooted in computational social science. It tackles questions of online news media consumption, AI-guided decision-making, and quality aspects of novel and ...

Our Data Science Experts

Get to know researchers and their projects at the University of Mannheim in our monthly “Data Science Insights” interviews.

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