News

Dr. Swapneel Mehta, academic/entrepreneur and co-founder of SimPPL, will visit the Chair on Friday, January 30 as a guest to the Closing Event of the DS 202 class in room A.001–003 (B6, E-F), starting at 10.30 a.m. His talk is titled titled „Arbiter: Improving Digital Safety with AI Agents“, the ...

We have a few last spots on left on the „Foundations of AI Product Development“ class, so we decided to extend the deadline until January 23rd, 2026.  Any submissions later than this date may be considered according to class capacity, but cannot be guaranteed a spot, although we do wish to give as ...

For the coming spring term (FSS26) we are pleased to announce a new, exclusive class called „Foundations of AI Product Development“, focusing on practical industry applications and ethical design principles. This class will be taught by Dhara Mungra M.Sc. who is joining our team next spring. The ...

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. ...