Data Science Insights

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.

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Lei Li, Assistant Professor of Economics: Geodata Analysis on international trade (June 2023)

Prof. Lei Li, PhD, has been an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Mannheim and an IZA Research Affiliate since 2019. Her research focuses on international trade, labor economics, and development economics. Prior to her appointment at the University of Mannheim, she worked as a ...

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João Areal, Professorship for Social Data Science and Methodology: Content Analysis of web-track data (May 2023)

João Areal received a MSc Research Master Social Sciences from the University of Amsterdam in August 2020. Since May 2021 João is a Doctoral Researcher at the Professorship for Social Data Science and Methodology (Prof. Florian Keusch) at the University of Mannheim, where he works with Dr. Ruben ...

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Victoria Meil, Chair of Quantitative Marketing and Consumer Analytics: Social Media Data (April 2023)

Victoria Meil acquired both her Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Business Administration with a focus on Marketing, Human Resources and Psychology at the University of Mannheim. She spent a semester abroad at Queen's University in Canada. During her studies, Victoria gained practical experience in ...

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Renat Shigapov, Research Data Center / BERD@NFDI: FAIR data and knowledge graphs (March 2023)

Dr. Renat Shigapov is Data Science Consultant at the Research Data Center of the University of Mannheim, Data Scientist for BERD@NFDI and coordinator of the NFDI working group “Knowledge Graphs”. Renat was awarded his doctorate at the Department of Physics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. He is a ...

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Marlene Lutz, Chair for Data Science in the Economic and Social Sciences: Natural Language Processing (February 2023)

Marlene Lutz has been a doctoral student and research assistant at the Chair of Data Science in Economics and Social Sciences since 2022. Previously, she studied computer science at RWTH Aachen University. Her research interests include Responsible Machine Learning, Fair Algorithmic Ranking and ...

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Lea Cohausz, Chair of Artificial Intelligence: Causal Modelling (January 2023)

Lea Cohausz is a doctoral student specializing in artificial intelligence at the University of Mannheim. Previously, she studied Sociology in her Bachelor's degree and the Mannheim Master in Data Science here. Her research interests include data mining in education, human behavior, and goal ...

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Christopher Klamm, Data and Web Science Group: Natural Language Processing (December 2022)

Christopher Klamm has been a Ph.D. student at the Chair of DWS of Prof. Dr. Simone Ponzetto since December 2021. His research focuses on analyzing social and political phenomena, such as populism, in texts using automatic methods of natural language processing. Previously, he studied computer ...

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Carola Trips, chairholder of English Linguistics /Diachrony: Natural Linguistic Processing (November 2022)

Prof. Dr. Carola Trips holds the chair of English Linguistics /Diachrony (Anglistik IV) at the University of Mannheim and works in the field of historical linguistics. In addition to synchronic and diachronic syntax and morphology (theories), her research interests include language contact, ...

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Vera Vogel, Chair for Cross-Cultural Social and Personality Psychology: Statistical Modelling Techniques (October 2022)

Vera Vogel has been a doctoral candidate at the Chair for Cross-Cultural Social and Personality Psychology of Prof. Dr. Jochen Gebauer since 2020. Her research focuses on social perception, categorisation & stereotypes, self-concept and social class affiliation. Previously, she studied psychology at ...

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Rainer Freudenthaler, Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES): methods for automated content analysis (September 2022)

Dr. Rainer Freudenthaleris an academic staff member at the MZES. After studying Media Economics at the Hochschule der Medien Stuttgart and getting his master’s degree in Media and Communication Studies at the University of Mannheim he finished his dissertation on the public debate concerning ...

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