Virtual Resume

I’m a PhD Candidate at the University of Mannheim working at the intersection of Quantitative Methods and International Relations. I use a broad portfolio of different statistical and methodological tools – ranging from natural language processing over network analysis to machine learning – on different sources of data to understand and measure the relationship structure of states in the international system. In my dissertation, I use information from political speeches and cooperation networks to quantify and estimate the interaction of states at the United Nations.

Since 2018, I am a research associate at the Chair of Empirical Democracy Research where I develop and teach courses on data analysis, LaTeX and international relations. Before that, I was a student research assistant at the Chair under Prof. Nikolay Marinov, PhD and held positions at the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES), the Collaborative Research Center SFB 884, as well as the Chair of Political Psychology.

Apart from using data analysis for my PhD projects and research positions, I enjoy to learn and apply new methods of all sorts to problems and challenges beyond the academic context. For instance, I serve as a voluntary mentor at the R-Track on exercism.io - a free and open-source e-learning website for coding and programming - where I supervised more than 100 students on programming exercises and coding challenges in R.