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The GRTL Alliance held its first-ever meeting in Mannheim on Tuesday, 16 June 2026, marking an important step in strengthening international collaboration in this emerging field. The meeting brought together Prof. Ann Kristin Glenster (Cambridge University), who travelled to Mannheim for the ...

Professor Ratkovic and Dr. Abdul Rahman were featured in a television segment for SWR Aktuell, a state-wide TV news magazine, highlighting their work at the University of Mannheim and the broader role of cutting-edge social science research in addressing global challenges. In the interview, Dr. ...

Around 35 researchers from across disciplines came together at the University of Mannheim for the latest edition of the Academic Speed Dating. Under the theme “Experiments and Causal Research with AI”, the event combined inspiring keynotes, short research presentations, and lively ...

Researcher Eirliani Abdul Rahman, who holds a doctorate from Harvard University, transferred to the University of Mannheim in early March thanks to funding from the Baden-Württemberg Stiftung. The program for international academic freedom is supporting her with around EUR 1.8 million, enabling a ...

Prof. Ratkovic will be giving a talk on Thursday March 10, 2026 at 7:00 p.m. in lecture hall SN 169 Röchling Hörsaal (Schloss Schneckenhof Nord). download date His talk will be titled “The current situation in the United States of America”. Topics covered in the lecture include the United States ...

Prof. Ratkovic was a speaker at the NATO Innovation Continuum 2026 SPARK Event, where he gave a talk titled „Targeted Behavioral Risk Intelligence: Early Detection and Intervention on Radicalization“. The NATO Innovation Continuum is a strategic framework designed by NATO Allied Command ...

We are happy to welcome Dhara Mungra (M.Sc.) to the group! An NYU-educated data scientist with four years of experience at a leading audience analytics firm and research with top AI researchers at Anthropic, Dhara translates business and product needs into technical specifications, currently ...

Prof. Ratkovic visited the group of Prof. Daniel Wilhelm at the LMU Munich and gave a talk within the Departmental Seminar Series of the Department of Statistics entitled „Large Language Models for Statistical Inference: Context Augmentation with Applications to the Two-Sample Problem, Regression, ...

At the end of the Term we have to say goodbye to two colleagues: Mitchell Ewald is leaving the group after one year with us and finishing his Master's Thesis to explore new career oppotunities. In his time here he has not just been a great coworker, but he has become a friend and we will miss ...