Credit: Katrin Glückler
Daria Szafran
University of Mannheim
School of Social Sciences
A 5, 6
Building B – Room B 223
68159 Mannheim
School of Social Sciences
A 5, 6
Building B – Room B 223
68159 Mannheim
| Course name | Credits | Details | Term |
|---|---|---|---|
| Empirisches Forschungspraktikum II | 10 | Course details | fall term |
Research Interests
- Dimensions of social inequality
- Social impact of AI
- Quantitative and qualitative research methods
Career
Daria holds a B.A. and M.A. in Sociology from the University of Mannheim. In her master thesis, she analyzed the influence of media consumption on adolescent body image. During her studies, she worked as a student research assistant at the Center for Preventive Medicine and Digital Health (CPD) in Mannheim, where she analyzed qualitative data for a public health project.
In August 2022 she joined the Professorship for Social Data Science and Methodology as a research assistant, where she supports a project on artificial intelligence and social inequality.
Publications
- Gereke, J., Helbling, M., Kommol, A., Szafran, D., Ünal, Z. and Visser-Koomson, M. (2025). The effects of Muslim immigration and demographic change on group boundaries in Germany. European Societies, 27, 697–723.
- Szafran, D. and Bach, R. L. (2024). “The human must remain the central focus”: Subjective fairness perceptions in automated decision-making. Minds and Machines, 34, 1–37.
- Gereke, J., Hellyer, J., Behnert, J., Exner, S., Herbel, A., Jäger, F., Lajic, D., Mezenský, ., Ngoc Anh, V., Ogłaza, T., Schabinger, J., Sokolova, A., Szafran, D., Tirolf, N., Veit, S. and Zhang, N. (2022). Demographic change and group boundaries in Germany : The effect of projected demographic decline on perceptions of who has a migration background. Sociological Science, 9, 206–220.
- Kappenberger, J., Strasser Ceballos, C., Gerdon, F., Szafran, D., Rupp, F., Eckert, K., Stuckenschmidt, H., Bach, R. L., Kreuter, F. and Kern, C. (2025). Unintended impacts of automation for integration? Simulating integration outcomes of algorithm-based refugee allocation in Germany.
In , Proceedings of the Eighth AAAI/
ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (AIES-25). Volume 2 (S. 1375-1387). , Association for the Advancement of ArtificialIntelligence: Washington, DC. - Kern, C., Kappenberger, J., Gerdon, F., Ceballos, C. S., Szafran, D., Rupp, F. and Bach, R. (2025). A simulation framework for studying the social impacts of algorithm-based refugee matching. In , European Workshop on Algorithmic Fairness, 30 June-2 July 2025, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands (S. 487–491). Proceedings of Machine Learning Research : PMLR, Curran Associates, Inc.: Red Hook, NY.
- Rodewald, F., Keusch, F., Szafran, D. and Bach, R. L. (2024). Mesuring privacy behavior with donated data. Data Donation Symposium 2024, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
- Gerdon, F., Szafran, D., Kappenberger, J., Bach, R. L. and Kern, C. (2023). Using survey experiments and agent-based modeling to simulate mobility behavior in smart cities. European Survey Research Association (ESRA) Conference 2023, Milano, Italy.
Projects