Joakim Nivre is a Professor at Uppsala University's Department of Linguistics and Philology. He is a leading researcher in computational linguistics, with a focus on dependency parsing, Universal Dependencies (UD) framework development, and multilingual NLP applications. His recent work explores LLMs in climate change discourse analysis, pharmacovigilance explainability, and historical text processing. Key research areas: Dependency parsing theory, Universal Dependencies standardization, LLM evaluation Collaborations: SweSAT-1.0 benchmark development, ClimateEval project, PARSEME integration His 2025-2023 publications demonstrate expertise in explainable AI for healthcare, synthetic data generation for idioms, and multilingual benchmark design. Notably, he co-developed SweSAT-1.0 to evaluate Swedish LLMs and contributed to typology-informed UD revisions. Despite extensive work in NLP, no scientific awards are mentioned in available texts.
Slava Jankin is a Professor of Data Science and Government at the University of Birmingham’s School of Government, where he also serves as Deputy Director of the Institute for Data and AI and Founding Director of the Centre for Artificial Intelligence in Government. He is concurrently a Fellow and Founding Director of the Data Science Lab at the Hertie School in Berlin. Previously, he held a Professorship at the University of Essex and has worked at University College London (UCL) and the London School of Economics (LSE). His research bridges computational methods, governance, and climate policy, with a focus on AI applications in public institutions, climate-health surveillance, and misinformation resilience. Jankin earned a PhD in Political Science from Trinity College Dublin (2009), a Postgraduate Diploma in Statistics (2006), and a BSc from Belarus State Economic University (2002). **Education**: • PhD in Political Science, Trinity College Dublin (2009) • Postgraduate Diploma in Statistics, Trinity College Dublin (2006) • BSc Econ with Distinction, Belarus State Economic University (2002) **Research Interests**: Jankin’s work integrates AI and computational methods with governance challenges, including climate policy, health surveillance, and institutional effectiveness. He leads initiatives like the Lancet Countdown’s climate-health monitoring and the CATALYSE project on climate impacts. His research also explores digital twins for governance systems and the role of cultural diversity in societal resilience against misinformation. **Grants & Collaborations**: He advises the UN and EU on AI and data science, co-leads the Lancet Countdown, and collaborates with institutions like the Alan Turing Institute. His applied work includes developing AI tools for public service optimization and policy simulations. **Labs & Teams**: Directs the Centre for AI in Government (University of Birmingham) and the Hertie School’s Data Science Lab, fostering interdisciplinary teams to advance computational methods in public policy.
Hannes Schammann is Professor of Political Science with a focus on migration policy at the University of Hildesheim , where he leads the Migration Policy Research Group since 2018. His work bridges academic research and practical implementation through the Research and Transfer Center for Migration Policy , addressing migration, integration, and refugee policy challenges. In January 2025, he joined the German Council of Experts on Integration and Migration (SVR) as a scientific advisor. Research Focus: Schammann specializes in local authorities' scope for action in refugee-related migration, national migration policy analysis, and educational integration aspects. He co-authored the textbook Migration Policy (2021) and contributes to international journals like Journal of Refugee Studies and Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies . Key Projects: He leads third-party funded initiatives including Match'In (algorithmic asylum seeker distribution), SOLDISK (solidarity discourses in migration), Country.Home.Future (rural integration), When Mayors Make Migration Policy (municipal EU influence). Expert Engagements: Schammann serves on editorial boards including Zeitschrift für Flucht- und Flüchtlingsforschung , and participates in advisory roles for institutions like the German Federal Ministry for Family Affairs and Robert Bosch Foundation . He also engages in public discourse through media appearances in Deutschlandfunk , ARD , and SWR regarding migration challenges.
Cornelius Puschmann is a Professor of Communication and Media Studies at the University of Bremen's ZeMKI, leading the Digital Communication and Information Diversity (DCID) Lab. He has held affiliations with institutions including Zeppelin University, the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society, and the Leibniz Institute for Media Research / Hans Bredow Institute. His research focuses on computational communication, digital media usage, hate speech, and algorithmic impacts on digital communication. Current projects: Informed by Influencers? (INDI), Political Polarization and Individualized Online Information Environments (POLTRACK) Member of Deutsche Gesellschaft für Publizistik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft (DGPuK), European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA), and International Communication Association (ICA) His recent publications explore topics such as alternative news consumption, political polarization, and communicative AI. He has also contributed to open-source methodologies like the RPC-Lex dictionary for analyzing right-wing populist discourse. Notable affiliations include visiting scholar roles at the Oxford Internet Institute, Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society, and University of Amsterdam's Department of Media Studies.
Kerstin Radde-Antweiler is a full Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Bremen , where she has held a chair in Media and Religion since 2018. She serves as Deputy Spokeswoman of ZeMKI (Center for Media, Communication and Information Research) and Chairwoman of the Tenure Boards at the university. Her research focuses on deep mediatization of religious practices, digital gaming cultures , and media appropriation in religious contexts . Radde-Antweiler leads international projects such as ReCov19 (funded by the Trans-Atlantic Platform ) and Video Game Development in Asia (funded by Beethoven 2 ). She founded the International Academy of the Study of Gaming and Religion and chairs the Network of German-speaking Researchers on Religion and Culture in Times of Deep Mediatization (GeNet-ISMRC). She also contributes to the University of Zürich's Digital Religion(s) research group . Her recent publications analyze digital gaming as a transformative religious space , media settlers in mediatized religion, and value formations in gamevironments . She emphasizes interdisciplinary approaches combining religious studies, media theory, and computational analysis. Her work appears in journals like Religion , Media and Communication , and Gamevironments .
Thilo Fehmel is a Professor of Social Administration and Social Policy at the Leipzig University of Applied Sciences and serves as Dean of the Faculty of Architecture and Social Sciences . His academic career spans institutions like the University of Leipzig (habilitation in sociology) and Cooperative State University Gera. Research Focus: Social policy, welfare state theory, European sociology, labor sociology, and sociological theory (conflict, autonomy, deviance). Projects: Led research on Citizen Participation in the Digital Society (2019-2021, funded by Saxony) and Social Policy by Collective Agreement (2015-2019, funded by Hans Böckler Foundation). Publications: Over 25 monographs and edited volumes, including Tarifsozialpolitik (2021) and Sicherungsbewahrung (2013). Academic Leadership: Contributed to journals like Traverse and Soziologie , and edited special issues on welfare state transformation. His work bridges theoretical sociological analysis with practical policy implications, emphasizing the role of collective bargaining and institutional frameworks in shaping social security systems across Europe.
Dr. Anne Lauscher is a Researcher at the Data and Web Science Group, University of Mannheim, School of Business Informatics and Mathematics. Her work focuses on neural methods for natural language understanding, particularly in Argument Mining, Scientific Publication Mining (scitorics), and ethical considerations in NLP. She investigates language representations, bias detection in models, and fair AI. She has been involved in projects like the Linked Open Citation Database (LOC-DB) and contributes to conferences like ACL and EMNLP. She has taught courses on Text Analytics, Machine Learning, and Ethics in NLP, and supervised theses on topics like detecting unfairness in Arabic text representations and hyperpartisan news detection. Her research bridges computational linguistics with societal ethics, aiming to improve fairness and interpretability in AI systems. Her research interests span Argumentation Mining, Scientific Publication Mining, scitorics, Transfer Learning, Representation Learning, and Ethics in NLP. She explores how to inject knowledge into language models and analyze biases in text representations. Her work on 'scitorics' involves analyzing rhetorical aspects of scientific writing to understand argumentation structures. Publications highlight contributions to bias mitigation (e.g., DebIE platform), specialized language models, and multilingual datasets like Multi2WOZ. Her work appears in top venues such as EMNLP, ACL, and COLING. She actively contributes to the academic community through roles like Publication Co-Chair for EurNLP 2020 and PC member for multiple conferences. Her advising includes guiding students on thesis projects addressing fairness, argumentation, and NLP applications. She collaborates with institutions like Stuttgart Media University and the Data and Web Science Group to advance research in ethical AI and NLP.
Dr. Marieke Einfeldt is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Konstanz's Department of Linguistics, focusing on the phonology-phonetics interface. Her work investigates topics such as trilingual first language acquisition (Standard German, Swiss German, and Italian), prosodic features of rhetorical questions, and bilingual language development. She is affiliated with Prof. Dr. Nicole Dehé's research group and previously contributed to Project 6 of the Questions at the Interfaces research unit, examining prosody in rhetorical questions. Her research spans phonological development in multilingual children, the interplay of discourse markers and prosody, and methodological advancements in psycholinguistic experiments using Active Learning systems. She holds a dissertation on trilingual consonant inventory acquisition, supervised by Prof. Dr. Tanja Kupisch, Dr. Mechtild Tronnier, and Prof. Dr. Bettina Braun. Key research interests include bilingualism, prosody, language acquisition, and sociolinguistics. Her studies address topics like tonal transfer effects in L2 learning, geminate production in heritage speakers, and cross-linguistic comparisons of speech styles. She is based in Office G223 at the University of Konstanz.
Stefan Bruckner is a Professor at the University of Rostock , leading the Chair of Visual Analytics within the Institute of Visual and Analytic Computing. His work bridges Visual Analytics , Biomedical Visualization , and Interactive Systems , with a focus on translating complex datasets into actionable insights. Role: Chair of Visual Analytics Key Affiliations: Eurographics Executive Committee, IEEE VGTC Editorial Leadership: Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics Research spans Medical Visualization , Immersive Analytics , and Proteogenomic Data Exploration . Recent work includes: ProHap Explorer for haplotype analysis Line Harp sonification techniques Narrative visualization frameworks His publications reveal trends in interactive data exploration , multi-omics visualization , and user behavior analysis within medical contexts. Awards include contributions to the Dirk Bartz Prize in 2019. He actively collaborates with international institutions and maintains memberships in ACM, IEEE, and GI.
Sebastian Brüggemann is a German legal scholar specialising in Internet, data-protection and IT law. Since 2013 he has been a part-time lecturer (Lehrbeauftragter) at the Faculty of Law of Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, and he holds parallel teaching appointments in data-protection and IT law at the Universities of Applied Sciences in Kehl and Ludwigsburg as well as at ZHAW School of Management and Law in Winterthur, Switzerland. In private practice he works as in-house counsel (Syndikusrechtsanwalt) for a large international IT company, focusing on data-protection and technology law. Education: 2003-2011: Studies of Law and General Rhetoric, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen 2009: First State Law Examination, Tübingen 2011: Magister Artium in General Rhetoric, Tübingen 2010-2012: Legal clerkship (Referendariat), including stages at the German University of Administrative Sciences Speyer and eco – Verband der Internetwirtschaft 2012: Doctorate in Law (Dr. iur.), Tübingen – dissertation on third-party disclosure claims against Internet providers in copyright enforcement 2013: Admission as attorney (Rechtsanwalt) 2013-2015: Part-time LL.M. in Information Technology Law, Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg Research interests span the intersection of law and digital technology: data-protection compliance under the GDPR, cybersecurity regulation, copyright in digital media, network neutrality, M2M/IoT legal issues, and the legal framework of behavioural advertising. His work frequently analyses German, European and comparative US developments. He has authored a monograph, numerous commentaries to GDPR/BDSG provisions, model IT contracts, and more than two dozen peer-reviewed articles and case notes since 2013, identifying recurring themes such as data portability, ISP liability, streaming and copyright, and the challenges of Industrie 4.0. Professional memberships & science communication: editorial board of Privacy in Germany , core team member of the Telemedicus IT-law portal, member of IAPP, DGRI and GRUR, and co-author of sector guidelines issued by Bitkom and eco association. There is no indication of supervised doctoral or master’s students in the supplied material; his teaching activities concentrate on specialised continuing-education courses and part-time lectures.
Andreas Bernard is a Professor at the Institute of Culture and Aesthetics of Digital Media at Leuphana University of Lüneburg. His work spans digital media, cultural studies, and contemporary poetics, with particular focus on digital self-representation and the cultural implications of media technologies. He has been actively publishing since the late 1990s and continues to produce significant scholarly work into the 2020s. Bernard's research interests center on how digital technologies reshape cultural practices, particularly in the areas of self-representation, organizational structures, and contemporary discourse. His work examines the historical and philosophical dimensions of digital culture, with special attention to profiles, hashtags, and other digital phenomena that structure contemporary life. He approaches these topics through interdisciplinary lenses that combine media theory, cultural history, and philosophical analysis. His publications reveal strong trends in analyzing how media technologies mediate human experience and organization. Bernard frequently investigates the historical precursors to contemporary digital phenomena, showing how current practices emerge from longer cultural trajectories. His recent work has increasingly focused on the poetics and epistemology of digital culture, examining how knowledge is structured and represented in digital environments. Bernard has edited several significant collections including 'Non Knowledge and Digital Cultures' (2018) and 'Theodor W. Adorno 'Minima moralia' neu gelesen' (2003), demonstrating his engagement with both contemporary digital issues and foundational philosophical texts. His work bridges theoretical analysis with concrete cultural phenomena, making significant contributions to understanding digital culture. Among his notable projects are the 'Digital Cultures Research Lab (2017-2022)', 'Making Sense(s). Die Medialität der Nahsinne', and 'Zukunftslabor Gesellschaft und Arbeit'. Through these initiatives, Bernard has helped establish interdisciplinary research frameworks for studying digital culture from multiple perspectives including media history, philosophy, and organizational studies.
Prof. Dr. Gesche Joost is the Head of the Design Research Lab at the Berlin University of the Arts and holds affiliations with the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) , Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society , and Einsteincenter Digital Future (ECDF) . Her research focuses on the intersection of digital transformation , human-computer interaction , and socially sustainable design , particularly examining: Participatory design for marginalized groups Wearable computing and tangible interfaces Digital sovereignty and inclusive governance Gender studies in technology contexts Material interactions in urban environments Her publications analyze proxemic mobile design, affective haptics, and critical approaches to digital infrastructure. Key projects include MINODU for local sustainable development, MYOW for DIY wearables, and Calliope gGmbH for children's digital education. She serves on the supervisory boards of SAP, ING, and Ottobock and has contributed to policy through the German government's Federal Internet Ambassador role (2014–2018).
Prof. Jürgen Pfeffer is a Professor of Computational Social Science & Big Data at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), affiliated with the TUM School of Social Sciences and Technology. His research bridges social and computer science, focusing on large socio-technical systems, algorithmic challenges, and dynamics like online firestorms and hate speech. He holds a doctorate from Vienna University of Technology and has postdoctoral experience at Carnegie Mellon University. Key research areas include computational social science, network analysis, and critical data studies. He leads interdisciplinary projects on online misogyny, disaster communication, and AI ethics. His work addresses methodological rigor in handling big data, visualization of complex networks, and policy implications of social media dynamics. Pfeffer has authored numerous publications in top journals like Science and IEEE, and serves on editorial boards for Frontiers in Big Data and EPJ Data Science. He actively participates in global conferences, advocating for ethical AI and responsible data practices. His research projects span collaborations with institutions worldwide, addressing societal challenges through data-driven insights.
Bettina Paul is a researcher affiliated with RWTH Aachen University (Institute for Sociology / Chair of Technology and Diversity) and University of Hamburg (Institute for Criminological Social Research). Her research focuses on the intersection of sociology, criminology, and technology, particularly examining lie detection practices, sociotechnical systems, and security governance. Key Affiliations: RWTH Aachen University (2019-2020), University of Hamburg (since 2003) Academic Rank: Researcher Paul's work critically engages with: Technological truth-seeking mechanisms in judicial and security contexts Cultural perceptions of lie detection technologies Sociotechnical ensembles in surveillance practices Automated profiling and preemptive security measures Material and discursive dimensions of security technologies Her recent publications (2014-2024) reveal a trajectory of analyzing lie detection technologies through sociotechnical lenses, emphasizing tensions between technological promises and human agency. Key areas include airport security algorithms, cinematic representations of lie detection, and neuroimaging's role in legal suspicion generation. Scientific awards include: Doctoral Scholarship by Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung Paul has contributed extensively to editorial work, co-editing thematic volumes on: Pre-Crime Society Sociotechnical Perspectives in Criminology Technologies of Suspicion Generation Health Risks in a Health-Obsessed Society Prison Reform Debates Control Cultures Decriminalization of Undocumented Individuals
Dr. Deborah Wolf is a Researcher at the Institute for Media and Cultural Studies within the Faculty of Philosophy at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, where she has been employed since October 2021. Prior to this position, she worked as a research associate at the Graduate College 'Factual and Fictional Narration' at Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg (2018-2021), where she completed her doctoral project on 9/11 conspiracy theories. She also served as a research assistant at Philipps-Universität Marburg (2017-2018) on a project examining television specials in German political media culture. Wolf's research focuses on conspiracy narratives, the mediality of living spaces, crisis and conflict communication, and internet research using qualitative methods, political theory, and subjectivity concepts. Her work demonstrates a consistent interest in how conspiracy theories function within media culture, particularly examining their audiovisual representation, rhetorical strategies, and social dynamics across digital platforms. She has made significant contributions to understanding how conspiracy theories operate in media ecosystems, with particular expertise in 9/11 conspiracy narratives and their representation across different media forms. Wolf has published extensively on conspiracy theories in academic journals and edited volumes, with her most recent work analyzing the audiovisual dimensions of conspiracy content. Her publications reveal a trajectory of increasingly sophisticated analysis of conspiracy media, moving from textual analysis of YouTube content to examining the broader cultural and political implications of conspiracy narratives in contemporary society. As an active member of the academic community, Wolf has served as co-spokesperson for the Media Studies and Political Theory working group of the German Society for Media Studies (GfM) since November 2020 and was a founding member of the Conspiracy Narratives, Tribalization and Political Polarization working group in March 2023. She has organized numerous workshops and conferences, including the 2024 workshop 'Exploring. Media Studies in Times of Climate Catastrophe' in Düsseldorf. Wolf is also deeply engaged in science communication, having participated in numerous public events, interviews, and podcasts to discuss conspiracy theories with broader audiences. Her public outreach includes appearances in FAZ, university podcasts, radio interviews, and public lectures aimed at improving media literacy and critical understanding of conspiracy narratives in contemporary society.
