Skills

Survey Methods

Advanced

Statistics

Advanced

Text Mining

Advanced

Machine Learning

Intermediate

Data Visualization

Advanced

Data Management

Advanced

R

Advanced

Python

Intermediate

SQL

Basic

Git

Intermediate

Markdown

Intermediate

LaTeX

Intermediate

Experience

 
 
 
 
 
April 2024 – Present
Cologne

Team Leader

GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences

Department Computational Social Science, Team Digital Society Observatory
 
 
 
 
 
October 2023 – April 2024
Cologne

Senior Researcher

GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences

Department Computational Social Science, Team Digital Society Observatory
 
 
 
 
 
July 2021 – April 2024
Bochum

Team Leader

Center for Advanced Internet Studies (CAIS)

Team Research Data & Methods
 
 
 
 
 
April 2017 – September 2023
Cologne

Senior Researcher

GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences

Department Survey Data Curation, Team Survey Data Augmentation
 
 
 
 
 
April 2015 – March 2017
Tübingen

Postdoc

Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien (Knowledge Media Research Center)

Research project “Redefining Tie Strength - How social media (can) help us to get non-redundant useful information and emotional support“ (ReDefTie)
 
 
 
 
 
October 2014 – March 2017
Cologne

Postdoc

University of Cologne

Teaching graduate and undergraduate classes in psychology and media studies
 
 
 
 
 
October 2012 – December 2014
Münster

Researcher

University of Münster

Research project “The social fabric of virtual life: A longitudinal multi-method study on the social foundations of online gaming“ (SOFOGA)
 
 
 
 
 
October 2010 – September 2012
Stuttgart

Researcher

University of Hohenheim

Research project “The social fabric of virtual life: A longitudinal multi-method study on the social foundations of online gaming“ (SOFOGA) + teaching graduate and undergraduate classes in communication
 
 
 
 
 
July 2007 – March 2010
Cologne

Researcher

University of Cologne

Research project “Psychologically Augmented Social Interaction Over Networks“ (PASION) + teaching graduate and undergraduate classes in psychology and media studies

Recent Publications

More Publications

(2024). 'Don’t research us' — How Mastodon instance rules connect to research ethics. Publizistik.

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(2024). Are We Replicating Yet? Reproduction and Replication in Communication Research. Media and Communication.

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(2024). Between urgency and data quality: assessing the FAIRness of data in social science research on the COVID-19 pandemic. Research Ethics.

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(2023). User-centric approaches for collecting Facebook data in the 'post-API age': experiences from two studies and recommendations for future research. Information, Communication & Society.

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(2023). A Re-evaluation of Online Pornography Use in Germany: A Combination of Web Tracking and Survey Data Analysis. Archives of Sexual Behavior.

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(2023). Editorial: Data, archives, and tools: Introducing new publication formats on infrastructures and resources for communication and media research. Publizistik.

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