Grant awards

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

Talks

Sciences Po — May 19. Talk and panel discussion on “Regulating algorithms: mandates and practices” at the AI-Mediated Public Sphere Conference.
ALMAnaCH, INRIA — May 22.
CEDAR, INRIA, Paris Saclay — May 28.
MLIA, ISIR, Sorbonne — June 1.
LISN, Paris Saclay — June 2.

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

ILLC, University of Amsterdam — June 6. Evaluating political biases in LLMs: framework, challenges, and societal implications.
Department of Communication Science, Free University of Amsterdam — May 31. Evaluating political biases in LLMs: framework, challenges, and societal implications.
Google DeepMind, Berlin, Germany — March 26. Political Worldviews Embedded in LLMs.

Big Data.AI Summit, Berlin, Germany — September 19. Science Pitch on “How to burst the information bubble?” Co-presented with Amelie Wuehrl.
NLP and IR group, University of Mannheim — December 7. A Platform for News Curation Focused on News Diversity.

[Summer semester 2025 and 2026] - Teaching Assistant for the master’s course on Data Science and Business Analytics at Bocconi University.
[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] The Effect of Data Removal and Rebalancing on Opinions Reflected in LLMs.
[2026] Steering Language Models Towards Objectivity (BA thesis).
[2025] Integrating News Frames into Recommender Systems: Effects on Normative Diversity and Quality of News Recommendations.
[2025] Framing Power and Agency in the Israel-Palestine Conflict: A Computational Analysis of American, British, and Arab Media.
[2024/2025] Assessing Large Language Models (LLMs) for Frame Prediction: A Study on Generalization Across Diverse Political Issues and Communication Contexts.
[2023] Analysis of Political Positioning from Politician’s Tweets.

[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 (Summa Cum Laude)