Sophia Hunger

Sophia Hunger is an Assistant Professor of Computational Social Science at the University of Bremen and a visiting scholar at the Center for Civil Society Research (WZB Berlin Social Science Center). She completed her doctorate at the European University Institute in 2020 and remains associated with WZB as a guest researcher.

• Research Focus: Protest movements, political polarization, immigration policy, and computational methods like quantitative text analysis and automated event extraction.
• Projects: MOTRA (radicalization monitoring) and PolCon (political conflict in Europe).
• Publications: Appeared in Political Science Research and Methods, European Political Science Review, and Swiss Political Science Review.
• Media Engagement: Contributed expert opinions to ARD, El País, France24, and Süddeutsche Zeitung.

Teaching: Co-taught courses on protest politics at Free University of Berlin and conducted workshops on text-as-data approaches at institutions like the European University Institute and WZB.

Methodological Innovation: Developed semi-automated protest event data systems and dictionaries to track immigration-related discourse and polarization trends.