About me

I’m a Ph.D graduate of the Graduate School of Decision Sciences and the University of Konstanz in Germany. In my work, I am representing a bridge between IT services offered by the Computing Centre of University of Heidelberg and researchers by providing support for these services and contributing to the development of research data management.

Dissertation

In my dissertation, I analyzed social media users' consumption awareness. In particular, I focused on the accuracy of Twitter users' statements about their online activity and the political heterogeneity of their Twitter network. Further, I analyzed the normative perceptions of biased news diets. My work utilized online surveys in addition to analyses of social media data. My dissertation was chaired by Karsten Donnay, Peter Selb and Pablo Barberá. I received both my BA (Major in Sociology, Minor in Statistics) and my MSc (Social and Economic Data Analysis) from the University of Konstanz.

I mainly utilized Python to retrieve the data used in my dissertation, while I employed SQL-databases accessed via MariaDB to maintain the huge datasets social media data might generate. In order to finally make sense of the data, I utilize R to employ models and visualize my results. Additionally, I use the EFS software to create surveys and experiments, which I complemented in one project with an additional website programmed in Python Flask. To guarantee everything runs smoothly, I worked with remote Linux servers hosted by BWScope and the University of Konstanz. As I worked with sensible data, I also became proficient in data privacy matters and the regulations of the EU-GDPR.

Previous work

After graduation, I became interested in work associated with research support: first, in two positions at the university of Konstanz in the social sciences and from September 2021 until June 2023 at the Centre for Psychosocial Medicine at the university clinic of Heidelberg, where I represented an intersection between the university's Computing Centre (URZ) and the researchers working in a clinical setting.

Current employment

Since August, 2023, I work at the Computing Centre of the Universitiy of Heidelberg, again, in research data management. I contribute to the project bwFDM (a joint endeavour of the Universitiy of Heidelberg, the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and the University of Konstanz funded by the Ministry of Science, Research and Arts Baden-Württemberg), organize the E-Science-Tage (a bi-yearly conference aimed at stakeholders of research data management in Germany) and help researchers of the University of Heidelberg by providing support for services offered by the Computing Center and advance these service further.

My CV

You can find a detailed version of my CV here.