Hi! I am Senior Researcher in Computational Social Science based in Cologne and Vienna. In my current role at GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, I work with the Digital Society Observatory on collecting and analyzing data from social media platforms. Beyond that, I mostly research how political communication goes wrong online; currently in projects on misinformation and affective publics.

Upcoming/recent presentations

September 8-11, 2026, Brno – 11th European Communication Conference (ECREA). Presentation of the paper Anger and fear predict individual misinformation sharing but not collective patterns on Twitter (Slides can be found at this link and a short description at Publications/).

June 4-8, 2026, Cape Town – 76th Annual ICA Conference. Presentation of paper Anger and fear predict individual misinformation sharing but not collective patterns on Twitter (description here), presented by my co-author Josephine Lukito (thank you, Jo!!). Find slides here.

May 21-22, 2026, Vienna – Computational Social Science: Democracy at Risk? Societal Challenges, Data, and Research Infrastructures in the Age of CSS. Lightning talk and poster presentation of the paper Quantifying the effects of misinformation on social media (see here for a short description of the paper).