Team @ TUM
Laura Mahrenbach
Post-Doc ResearcherLaura's research focuses on issues of international political economy in a changing world context, including the rise of emerging power states like Brazil, India, and China and the evolution of global governance to meet today's challenges. One current project: Emerging States and Big Data.
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Mirco Schönfeld
Post-Doc ResearcherMirco aims to understand and predict the influence of a network on the behaviour of single agents by developing techniques in network analysis, data science, and machine learning that enable the analysis of structural and contextual conditions of agents' embeddings.
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Elena Fernandez-Fernandez, PhD
Post-Doc ResearcherElena's project "Time, Technology and the Press" is a Study of accelerations of time perceptions during the industrial and digital revolutions, aims to quantify the acceleration of the social construction of time by inspecting fluctuations in information density over time using computational research methods.
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Raji Ghawi
Post-Doc ResearcherRaji is a Computer Scientist by training. His research interests include ontologies and semantic web, database systems, information retrieval and text mining, process mining and social network analysis.
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Cindarella Petz
Ph.D. StudentCindarella has a BA and MA in History. Her focus now is on projects and methods related to Digital Humanities.
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Wienke Strathern
Ph.D. StudentWienke has a BA and MA in Philology and is interested in how we can use automated methods for better quantitive and qualitative analysis of texts.
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Siegfried Müller
Ph.D. StudentSiegfried works with data from massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs) and their use in network analysis to study team dynamics and leadership structures. In particular, his current focus is on the investigation of communication networks and their influence on team performance.
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Eleonora Kirkiza
Ph.D. StudentNora's interests include political behavior, experiments and computational methods. Nora works for a project on populism in Europe and the US funded by Volkswagen Foundation.
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Research Assistant
Luise is finishing her MAs in Mathematics, Physics, and Political Science. She works on statistical measures for grouping social networks.
Veronika Bauer
Research AssistantVeronika studies political science and she is interested in all kinds of methods and programming. Therefore, she works as an assistant for our methods classes.
Martina Drechsel
Administration
Martina handles all administrative issues.
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Team @ CMU
Hemank Lamba
Ph.D. StudentHemank's primary research area is data mining with use of machine learning and network science theories to solve problems.
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Former Team Member @ TUM
Katja Mayer
Post-Doc ResearcherKatja Mayer was trained as sociologist and works at the intersection of science-technology-society. She studies interactions of social scientific method and its publics. Currently she is looking at epistemic practices in Computational Social Science and Big Data.
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Robert West
Post-Doc ResearcherBob's research aims to understand, predict, and enhance human behavior in social and information networks by developing techniques in data science, data mining, network analysis, machine learning, and natural language processing.
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Nikou Günnemann
Ph.D. StudentNikou's primary research interest covers analysing dynamic data and machine learning to detect and describe patterns, trends and relations in data.
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Ashwini Rao
Ph.D. StudentAshwini is interested in interdisciplinary research than can address challenges in Internet privacy and security domain.
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Maria Mircea
Research AssistantMaria is a mathematician who is interested in understanding and improving network algorithms that measure the status of agents.
Severin Böhmer
Research AssistantSeverin studies political science and he wants to figure out the effects of political opinions on suggested messages and connections on social media.
Former Team Member @ CMU
Momin M. Malik
Ph.D. StudentMomin is interested in developing integrated sociological, computational and statistical methodology for the critical analysis of large-scale human networks.
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Ju-Sung (Juice) Lee
Post-Doc ResearcherJuice's research interests span social networks analysis, quantitative sociology, agent-based modeling, and game-theoretic applications to social problems.
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Gabriel Ferreira
Ph.D. StudentGabriel is broadly interested in software engineering, particularly in understanding how network science theories can contribute to solving software-related issues.
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Constantine Nakos
Graduate StudentConstantine's research interests include natural language processing, text generation, and their applications.
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Nikou Günnemann
Research AssistantNikou's primary research interest covers analysing dynamic data and social networks to detect and describe patterns, trends and relations in data.
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External Affiliations
Vienna University
Visiting ProfessorI served as Visiting Professor at the Department of Communication at the University of Vienna in Spring 2014.
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Hamburg University
Visiting ProfessorIn Winter 2012/2013 and Summer 2013 I spent several weeks at the Center for Globalization and Governments at Hamburg University.
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Karlshochschule International
Adjunct ProfessorI teach "Social Networks" every fall semester. This block module is part of the "Management" Master’s program. In this year's project the students accomplished a network analytical study of the cultural and creativity scene of Karlsruhe.
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My Visitors @ TUM
Tayo Fabusuyi
October 2016Tayo is a researcher working at the Tepper Business School at CMU in Pittsburgh and interested in urban and regional development.
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Philipp Singer
July 2016Philipp is a post doctoral researcher at the Data Science Group at the Computational Social Science Department at GESIS in Cologne.
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My Visitors @ CMU
Ayush Tomar
June-August 2015Ayush is a student at the Delhi College of Engineering and winner of the Bose Scholarship, which brought him to CMU.
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Thomas Zorbach
July 2015Thomas is CEO of vm-people in Berlin, Germany, specialized in viral marketing, transmedia storytelling, and social media management.
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Betina Hollstein
February-March 2015Betina is a Professor for Qualitative Methods and Micro Sociology at the University of Bremen.
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Cornelia Brantner
August-October 2014Cornelia works as post-doctoral research associate in the Department of Communication at the University of Vienna.
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Fred Morstatter
June-August 2014Fred works as graduate research assistant under the supervision of Dr. Huan Liu at the Data Mining and Machine Learning Laboratory at Arizona State University.
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Katja Mayer
October/November 2013Katja works as post-doctoral research associate to the president of the European Research Council Prof. Helga Nowotny.
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Kerstin Ammann
March/April 2013Kerstin is a Postdoctoral fellow at the Weizmann Institute of Science in the research group of Uzy Smilansky.
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