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
2024
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.
2023
- 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.
Teaching
- [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.
Master’s thesis supervision
I’ve supervised/I am supervising the following master’s theses:
- [2023] Identifying the positioning of parties based on the political debate on Twitter/X.
- [2024/2025] Generalizing frames identification in news articles.
- [2025] Diversifying news recommenders with frames.
- [2025] Understanding power relations in war conflicts as portrayed by the media.
Research visit
- [May 2024 - July 2024] - Research visit at the Free University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Hosted by Prof. Dr. Wouter van Atteveldt.
PhD degree
PhD degree in computational linguistics from the Institute for Natural Language Processing at the University of Stuttgart.
Defense: October 14, 2024.
Title of the thesis: Methods for Mining Politial Opinions from Texts and Large Language Models.