Grant awards

MINT-INNOVATION 2024 - MINT-INNOVATION, Germany. 100,000 EUR funded by Vector-Stiftung. Co-joint application with Amelie Wuehrl.
Software Campus 2023 - Software Campus, Germany. 114,000 EUR funded by BMBF.

Talks

@Institute for Societal Computing at the University of Saarland on June 6. Video of the talk.
@Fondazione Bruno Kessler (Trento, Italy) on May 14.
@CIMeC Seminar Series at the University of Trento (Italy) on May 13.
@#TaDa Speaker Series on April 30.

Evaluating political biases in LLMs: framework, challenges, and societal implications
ILLC, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. 04.06.2024.
Department of Communication Science, Free University of Amsterdam, 31.05.2024.
Political Worldviews Embedded IN LLMs. - Google Deep Mind, Berlin, Germany. 26.03.2024.

Science Pitch on “How to burst the information bubble?” - Big Data.AI Summit, Berlin, Germany. Co-presented with Amelie Wuehrl. 21.09.2023.
A Platform for News Curation Focused on News Diversity - NLP and IR group, University of Mannheim. 07.12.2023.

[May 2025 and 2026] Guest Lecture on Ethics in NLP for the master’s course on Data Science and Business Analytics at Bocconi University.
[Winter semester 2022/2023] - Seminar on Computational Analysis of Societal Discourse for master’s students in Computational Linguistics at the University of Stuttgart, Germany. Co-taught with Prof. Dr. Sebastian Padó.
[Summer semester 2023/2024] - Seminar on Argument Mining and Societal Discourse for master’s students in Computational Linguistics at the University of Stuttgart, Germany. Co-taught with Franziska Webber.

I’ve supervised/I am supervising the following master’s theses:

[2026] Steering language models towards objectivity.
[2025] Diversifying news recommenders with frames.
[2025] Understanding power relations in war conflicts as portrayed by the media.
[2024/2025] Generalizing frames identification in news articles.
[2023] Identifying the positioning of parties based on the political debate on Twitter/X.

[May 2024 - July 2024] - Research visit at the Free University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Hosted by Prof. Dr. Wouter van Atteveldt.

PhD degree in computational linguistics from the Institute for Natural Language Processing at the University of Stuttgart. October 14, 2024.

Thesis on Methods for Mining Political Opinions from Texts and Large Language Models which received Summa Cum Laude.