Stefan Munnes

Stefan Munnes is a Research Fellow at the Work, Family and Social Inequality research professorship of the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB), where he has worked since May 2023. He holds a degree in Sociology from the University of Potsdam and has been involved in computational social science research since 2018, initially as a data analysis assistant and later as a research assistant in the junior research group Work and Care.

Research Interests:

• Analysis of social inequality (particularly gender inequality and modern antisemitism)
• Computer-assisted methods for inequality research
• Text data analysis and computational social science
• Care work dynamics and pandemic impacts

Academic Activities:

• Pursuing a PhD since May 2023 on automated classification methods in creative arts inequality
• Organizing the Berlin Summer Institute in Computational Social Science (since 2023)
• Contributing to comparative studies on digital labor markets

Methodological Expertise: Specializes in processing internet and text data, with a focus on machine learning applications for social science research. His work includes pandemic-related data collection challenges and home office impact analyses.