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Next term, Dhara Mungra (M.Sc.) will join the Chair as a researcher. 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, ...

Prof. Tingley will give a second talk at the Schloss on Thursday, October 30 at 17:15 in lecture hall EO150 on the topic of „Climate Policy and Energy Trans­ition Tradeoffs: Local Economies and Global Contexts“.  All interested persons are welcome. Abstract: What are the political, social, and ...

Prof. Dustin Tingley from Harvard University will be visiting the Chair from October 27–30. He is the Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy with a joint appointment in the Harvard Kennedy School of Public Policy and Harvard Government Department. In addition to that, he is Interim Vice Provost ...

We are happy to announce that next spring Dr. Eirliani Abdul Rahman will be joining the team at the Chair of Social Data Science!

The change of terms is bringing about changes to our group as well: Our Research Assistant Tilo Schütz is leaving the team for an exchange semester at the University of Örebro in Sweden, where he will be studying in the field of Data Science and Criminology. We are excited for this new chapter in ...

We welcome Luis Götze to the group! Luis Götze joined the group in July as a Researcher and Teaching Assistant. Currently enrolled in the Mannheim Master in Social Data Science, he brings a unique interdisciplinary background in International Relations and Data Science. His research focuses on the ...

Last fall Prof. Ratkovic, his colleague Thomas Gschwend and Springer Nature  organized a hackathon with 22 international participants to explore how AI can support or facilitate scientific writing. A new article by Jan-Martin Wiarda discusses some of the results as well as perspectives by Prof. ...

Prof. Ratkovic was a speaker at the University:Future Festival 2025, which took place on May 13 to 15, 2025 in Berlin, Braunschweig, Nürnberg, Graz / Austria, Zurich / Switzerland and online. His talk was titled „Academic Writing: A Field Experiment Testing GPT's Ability to Foster Clarity and ...

We welcome Jacob Chen to the group!  Jacob Chen joined the group as a research assistant in the beginning of May. Currently enrolled in the Mannheim Master in Data Science program, his research focuses on leveraging Large Language Models to enhance the quality of scientific writing. Working ...