Frederic Gerdon

Frederic Gerdon is a PhD candidate at the Graduate School of Economic  
and Social Sciences (GESS). He holds a Bachelor's degree in Sociology  
(minor in Political Science) from the Johannes Gutenberg University  
Mainz (2013-2017) and a Master's degree in Sociology from the  
University of Mannheim (2017-2019). Furthermore, he spent a study  
semester at the University of Vienna, Austria.

Currently, he is working on a project investigating the impact of  
artificial intelligence (automated decision-making) on solidarity and  
social inequality, drawing on real-life applications.

Since his undergraduate studies, he has been working as a student  
research assistant at three chairs, involving various projects on  
social stratification, cultural sociology, international relations,  
and survey methodology. In his Master's thesis, he conducted a  
factorial survey experiment („vignette study“) to investigate the  
context dependence of privacy norms, showing how the perceived  
appropriateness of data transmissions may vary with the interaction of  
situational characteristics (e.g. data type, recipient, and data use).