Katharina Prasse

Katharina Prasse is a Researcher and PhD Candidate at the University of Mannheim's School of Business Informatics and Mathematics, affiliated with the Data and Web Science Group. Her research focuses on computer vision applications for climate change and foundation models, funded by the BMBF ClimateVisions project.

Education:

• 2024–present: PhD in Computer Science, University of Mannheim
• 2023–2024: PhD in Computer Science, University of Siegen
• 2020–2022: M.Sc. Mannheim Master in Data Science, University of Mannheim
• 2014–2017: B.A. Liberal Arts & Sciences, Utrecht University's Honors College

Her research explores climate change discourse analysis via social media and computer vision techniques. Recent work includes developing datasets for climate perception analysis and improving hand action recognition through spherical harmonics. She collaborates on interdisciplinary projects like ClimateVisions, investigating climate change discussions on social platforms.

Teaching: Supervises bachelor/master theses, co-leads the 'Computer Vision for Social Media Analysis' team project, and teaches AI Safety & Robustness seminars.

Labs/Teams: Active in the Data and Web Science Group, focusing on machine learning and climate change applications.