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Julian Walterskirchen is a PhD student in the Department of Political Science at the University of Gothenburg, focusing on empirical conflict studies, quantitative methods, and natural language processing (NLP). He holds an M.Sc. in International Relations from the University of Essex and a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Innsbruck.
Prior to his PhD, he was a Research Associate at the Center for Crisis Early Warning (CCEW) at the University of the Bundeswehr in Munich (2021–2024), exploring text-as-data approaches for conflict prediction. Earlier roles include Research Assistant at the University of Innsbruck (2019–2021) and UN consultant on Preventing Violent Extremism (2017–2019).
His research interests span international and intrastate conflict dynamics, crisis early warning systems, and computational methods in political science. He has contributed to projects funded by Germany’s Ministry of Defence and focuses on enhancing conflict prediction through NLP and quantitative frameworks.
His academic work emphasizes reproducibility in research and methodological innovation, with publications addressing coup risk analysis, UN peacekeeping, and counterinsurgency strategies.
