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Achim Edelmann is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Sciences Po's médialab, specializing in the sociology of culture, social networks, and computational methods. He habilitated at the University of Bern, was a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley, and completed postdoctoral training at Duke University's Network Analysis Center. His research examines the interplay between cultural meanings and social networks, the co-evolution of scientific ideas and public debates, and the application of big data to sociological questions.
- Education: Habilitation in Sociology (University of Bern), Postdoctoral Trainee (Duke Network Analysis Center)
- Affiliations: Sciences Po (médialab), University of Bern, UC Berkeley, Duke University
Key research projects include analyzing the interaction between cultural meanings and social networks, studying scientists' public support of risky science, semantic analysis in interviews, and misinformation spread through private messaging. He increasingly employs relational databases and cloud computing for large-scale data analysis.
His Google Scholar publications (2014–2023) demonstrate expertise in computational social science, symbolic boundary theory, military-to-civilian transitions, and climate science networks. Notable works include analyzing gender differences in political education outcomes (2023), uncertainty in research methodology (2022), and formalizing cultural boundaries (2018).
Methodologically, Edelmann combines traditional sociological theory with computational approaches, focusing on structural analysis of cultural systems, network ecology, and big data applications in social research. He supervises PhD theses and has contributed to MOOC-Ed network datasets.
