Julia Maria Struß

Prof. Dr. Julia Maria Struß is a Professor of Applied Data Science at the Department of Information Science of Potsdam University of Applied Sciences. She serves as Program Director and Internship Coordinator for the Information and Data Management (B.A.) program and is a member of the Departmental Council. Her work bridges technical rigor with societal impact, focusing on information retrieval, text mining, and ethical data practices.

• University: Potsdam University of Applied Sciences
• Department: Information Science
• Academic Rank: Professor
• Email: julia.struss@fh-potsdam.de

Research Interests center on Information Retrieval (technical and ethical dimensions), Data Science for Social Good (hate speech detection, fake news mitigation), and Computational Linguistics (subjectivity analysis, sentiment modeling). She specializes in deploying these methods for societal challenges like environmental sustainability and pandemic misinformation.

Her publications emphasize fact-checking infrastructure, multilingual NLP, and dataset transparency, with recent work analyzing hate speech data licensing and urban data practices for rural stakeholders.