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Nicolai Berk is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Immigration Policy Lab and the Public Policy Group at ETH Zürich. Previously, he was a PhD candidate at the Research Training Group 'DYNAMICS' (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Hertie School of Governance), supervised by Thomas Meyer. His research focuses on political competition, public opinion dynamics, and radical right rhetoric in Western democracies. He combines text analysis with econometric methods to study political discourse shaping, particularly the impact of right-wing rhetoric.
Education: BA from the University of Vienna (Political Science), MSc in Social Sciences from the University of Amsterdam. Key roles include research assistantships under Markus Wagner (AUTNES) and Gijs Schumacher (EUSpeech V2). He has interned at the Max-Planck Institute for the Study of Societies and participated in the Hot Politics Lab.
Research interests span media framing effects, NLP applications in social sciences, and migration policy analysis. He led data collection for EUSpeech V2 and contributed to AUTNES datasets. Recent work includes modeling migration-related content in German news media and investigating media effects on voting behavior. His methods emphasize computational social science and experimental research.
