Christopher

Hi 👋, I am an interdisciplinary PhD student at the University of Mannheim (Germany) and a researcher at the Cologne Center of Comparative Politics working at the intersection of Natural Language Processing and Computational Political Science.

🎓 I hold a master degree in Computer Science (2018, with a minor in Philosophy) and a master degree in Political Science (2019) from the Technical University Darmstadt (Germany). 🐾 During my studies, I spent a semester abroad 🇨🇭 (2016/2017) at the University of Zurich and ETH Zurich as a special student and research assistant at the Computational Social Science lab (ETH Zurich, Switzerland). Before my PhD journey at the University of Mannheim, I worked as a researcher in Natural Language Processing at the UKP lab (Technical University Darmstadt, Germany) (2018-2021). During my PhD, I was also a visiting researcher 🎒 at Cologne Center for Comparative Politics (2023), a research asssistant at the Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung (2024), a short-term research visiting at The Alan Turing Institute (2024) and University of Zurich, IPZ (2024) as well as in the junior researcher program for a research visit at GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences (2024).

Since 2022, I have been co-organizing the tada.cool speaker series (w/ >30 speakers, >700 Slack members) as well as the workshop on Computational Linguistics for Political and Social Sciences (KONVENS 2022, 2023 & 2024). In 2025, I co-organize the first workshop on “Validating Social Text-as-Data Methods” (VaLiSTAD) @ ICWSM. I have also supported the BigScience/ BLOOM project (2022), the Data Provenance Initiative (2023-today) and led a team in the Expediction Aya (2024), which won the “Most Innovative Project” 🏆 award. I also received the Open Science Grant from the University of Mannheim for the datasets.cool project (2024-2025) and won the award 🏆 “Best Data Quality Insights” (LMU DataFest 2025).

👥 Besides research, I am an academic coach. I have worked as a certified writing coach ✍️ at the Computer Science writing lab University of Hagen (Germany) and the SchreibCenter at the Technical University of Darmstadt. Since 2020 I am also a qualified stress management trainer 🧠 (DADeSp, Technical University Darmstadt, 2020) with focus on the academic and university context. As part of my support for the FirstGen initiative ArbeiterKind, I conduct free open time and stress management workshops and I have started an initiative to establish an open virtual writing lab. Since 02/25, I am completing a certification program (around 12 months) with my dog 🐕‍🦺 to qualify as a licensed pedagogical support team.

For 2025, I have planned to be in Milan (IT) ✔️, Konstanz (DE) ✔️, Munich (DE) in March ✔️, Oxford (UK) March/April ✔️, London (UK) ✔️, Vienna (AU) in April ✔️, Praque (CZ) in May ✔️, Madrid (ES) in June ✔️, Vienna (AU) in July ✔️, Berlin (DE) in July ✔️, Zurich (CH) in August ✔️, Hildesheim (DE) in September✔️, Zurich (CH) in November, Bern (CH) tbd and other places to be decided. Also you can often find me in Cologne and Mannheim. I would be happy to chat ☕️ about CSS if anyone is around during these times. Please feel free to send me a message.

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