about

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I’m a Research Assistant at SynoSys Computational Social Science group led by Philipp Lorenz-Spreen.

I hold a M.Sc. Computational Social Science from the Institute for Analytical Sociology (IAS) in Linköping 🇸🇪.

• CV English | CV Deutsch

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Interests 🤓

• exploring how information shapes the formation and evolution of social groups

  • …often found at the meso level (where the interactions happen)
  • homophily is not everything

• sociological system/network theory

• computational methods to bring the theories to life

• EXAMPLE

  1. take a sociological theory
     • preferably system/network based
  2. translate the important “theory” terms to “computational”
     • easy with social network analysis
  3. find interesting data
     • create a network from digital data
  4. 🤯

Laptop 💻️

• Hardware & OS
  • Thinkpad E14
  • Debian Xfce with Vimix Theme
• Software
  • Ghostty with Monokai Pro
  • Zotero
  • Obsidean
  • Typst

Hobbies & Trivia 🤡

• organizing and managing notes
• tinkering with coding projects
  • I started this when vibecoding wasn’t a thing
• I used to fold somewhat advanced origami-models