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Christian Pipal is a Senior Research and Teaching Associate and External Lecturer at the Department of Communication and Media Research, University of Zurich, Switzerland. He concurrently holds a Ph.D. researcher position at the Department of Political Science, University of Amsterdam (since 2019), and has served as a Visiting Researcher at the University of Vienna (2020-2021) and a Research Associate at NEOS Lab (2018-2019). His academic journey includes a B.A. in International Development Studies (University of Vienna, 2013) and an M.A. in European Union and Russia Studies (University of Tartu, 2015). Pipal’s research focuses on digital political communication, elite behavior, and computational methods, with particular emphasis on text analysis, sentiment modeling, and multimodal data integration.
His Ph.D. thesis, funded by the Horizon 2020 POLEMIC project, examines “The Emotional Rhetoric of Political Elites”, supervised by Gijs Schumacher, Mariken van der Velden, and Bert Bakker. Pipal’s work bridges political psychology, computational social science, and digital media studies, with contributions to datasets like EUSpeech V2 and methodological frameworks such as the MEXCA emotion pipeline.
Pipal’s articles address challenges in computational text analysis, political tone dynamics, and social media engagement. His research agenda emphasizes overcoming gaps in validation practices, cross-lingual analysis, and methodological transparency. He has also explored TikTok’s role in political communication, NATO framing in the Ukraine conflict, and multiverse approaches to news-sharing behavior.
His grants include the Horizon 2020 POLEMIC funding and collaborative projects at the NEOS Lab. Pipal actively contributes to labs like the Computational Communication Lab (University of Vienna) and co-develops tools for emotion expression analysis. His work intersects with interdisciplinary teams in political science, computer science, and behavioral psychology.
