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With increasing fears of an impending European military conflict, Germany is looking to prepare against Russian aggression. The threat is not just external: Russia also targets the stability of German democracy and society. Collecting military experts on foreign interference, Col. Adam Bryson (ret) ...

Prof. Ratkovic was invited to give a talk in the MZES Social Science Data Lab event series. The hybrid input talk entitled “Harnessing GPT for Enhanced Academic Writing: Evidence from a Field Experiment with Early-Career Researchers in the Social Sciences” will take place on Wednesday, September 16 ...

With the start of fall term we welcome two new researchers to the group! Sophia Moskalenko is a psychologist with a PhD in Social and Clinical Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania. Her research examines radicalization, terrorism, disinformation, and conspiracy theories, with a focus on ...

Prof. Ratkovic was invited to give the Keynote Lecture at the 8th International Conference on Statistics: Theory and Applications (ICSTA 2026) in London / United Kingdom. Hi talk was titled „Large Language Models for Statistical Inference: Context Augmentation with Applications to the Two-Sample ...

As the spring term is coming to an end, we say goodbye to our colleague Dhara Mungra.  For the past six months, Dhara was part of our team at the University of Mannheim, where she taught a course on AI Product Development. The goal of the course was to help students learn by building real products ...

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 ...