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Prof. Dr. Olena Palko is a historian specializing in Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union, and Ukraine. She holds the SNSF Professorship at the University of Basel's Department of History, focusing on East European History. Her research emphasizes Soviet minority policies, cultural politics, and national identity formation in interwar Ukraine. She is a leading scholar with notable works including Making Ukraine Soviet (2021), awarded the 2023 Alexander Nove Prize. Her current SNF-funded project, Red Tower of Babel , examines Soviet minority experiments in Ukraine. Education: PhD from University of East Anglia (2017); Kandydat nauk from National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (2013). Research Interests: Soviet nationality policy, minority history, Ukrainian twentieth-century history, transnational border dynamics. Her work bridges archival analysis with transnational perspectives, addressing contested borderlands between Poland and the USSR. Key publications include co-edited volumes like Making Ukraine (2022) and Ukraine's Many Faces (2023). She actively contributes to academic governance roles, including co-convening the BASEES Study Group for Minority History and serving on the Scientific Advisory Council of the Council of Europe's history observatory.

• Soviet Nationality Policy
• Minority History in Eastern Europe
• Ukrainian History (20th Century)
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Dr. Carolin Amlinger is a researcher at the University of Basel's Department of German Linguistics and Literature , directing the SNSF Ambizione Grant "Reading: Taste and Social Boundaries" . She studied philosophy, German studies, and sociology at the University of Trier , later earning her doctorate at the Technical University of Darmstadt and the Institute for Social Research Frankfurt am Main with the award-winning thesis "Writing: A Sociology of Literary Work" . Her research centers on Literary Sociology and Social Theory , particularly focusing on the intersection of taste, social boundaries, and cultural struggles. She co-directs the Forum Literary Sociology and has contributed to debates on conspiracy theories and the post-factual age . Her 2023 monograph "Infringed Freedom: Aspects of Libertarian Authoritarianism" (co-authored with Oliver Nachtwey) was shortlisted for the Leipzig Book Fair Prize . Research interests: Literary Sociology, Social Theory, Post-Factual Age, Cultural Studies, Conspiracy Theories, Political Sociology Key projects: SNSF Ambizione Grant "Reading: Taste and Social Boundaries" , co-director of Forum Literary Sociology , visiting fellow at CRC 1472 "Transformations of the Popular" (University of Siegen, 2022/23) Scientific awards: 2022 Dissertation Prize (Friends of TU Darmstadt) 2022 DGS Labor and Industrial Sociology Prize 2023 Young Thinker Award (Sociology category) Recent publications (2024–2025): Focus on literary sociology, libertarian authoritarianism, bureaucratic reform, and social dimensions in text production

• Literary Sociology
• Sociology of Literary Work
• Post-Factual Age
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Elliott Ash is an Associate Professor of Law, Economics, and Data Science at ETH Zurich's Center for Law & Economics. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics and J.D. from Columbia University, a B.A. in Economics, Government, and Philosophy from the University of Texas at Austin, and an LL.M. in International Criminal Law from the University of Amsterdam. His research focuses on empirical legal studies using econometrics, NLP, and ML, examining topics like judicial behavior, legislative impact, and AI-driven governance. He has been funded by the ERC, Swiss NSF, and others. Research Interests: Elliott explores automation of legal decisions, text-as-data analysis in law, and the intersection of AI with legal systems. He develops tools like BallotBot and LePaRD to enhance legal transparency and public understanding. His work bridges law, economics, and computer science, with publications in top journals like the American Economic Journal and Review of Economics and Statistics . Teaching: Courses include Building a Robot Judge , Natural Language Processing for Law , and Big Data for Public Policy . He co-organizes the Zurich Workshop in AI+Economics and Monash-Warwick-Zurich Text-as-Data Workshops. Awards: European Research Council Starting Grant, Swiss National Science Foundation Grant, and multiple grants from U.S. and Swiss institutions. His work has been featured in NPR , VoxEU , and Georgetown Law Journal . Labs/Teams: Leads the Swiss AI Initiative's Human-AI Alignment team, collaborates with the CEPR on Political Economy research, and serves as an Economic Journal Associate Editor.

• Law and Economics
• Political Economy
• Econometrics
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Myriam Dunn Cavelty serves as Deputy Head of Research and Teaching at the Center for Security Studies (CSS) at ETH Zurich, where she leads significant academic initiatives in cybersecurity and digital governance. She holds formal affiliations as an associate researcher at the Center for Advanced Security Theory at the University of Copenhagen, and has held prestigious visiting positions at Brown University, the University of Darmstadt (as a Mercator Fellow), and the Central European University. Her research expertise centers on how digital technologies influence political behavior and societal values, with particular attention to governance arrangements for digital technologies and their embedding in social, political, and economic processes. Her scholarly contributions span cybersecurity politics, cyber warfare, critical infrastructure protection, and strategic foresight, reflecting an interdisciplinary approach that bridges political science, international relations, and technology studies. Dunn Cavelty's publication record demonstrates remarkable consistency and impact, with works spanning from 2008 to the present. Her research shows an evolution from early analyses of cyber-threat construction to contemporary examinations of AI in security contexts and the political dimensions of cybersecurity governance. Her work consistently addresses the intersection of technological capabilities and political constraints, examining how states and other actors navigate security challenges in the digital domain. Mercator Fellow at the University of Darmstadt Editor-in-Chief of Contemporary Security Policy Advisory work for governments, international institutions, and corporations As an academic leader, she has advised numerous doctoral students and supervised research projects examining the political dimensions of cybersecurity. Her work with the Center for Security Studies involves directing research programs that connect academic inquiry with policy relevance, particularly in the areas of risk analysis and strategic foresight. She has established herself as a leading voice in European cybersecurity scholarship, with particular expertise in the Swiss context and broader European security frameworks.

• Cybersecurity
• Digital Technologies and Political Behavior
• Governance of Digital Technologies
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Thomas Schlag is Professor of Practical Theology with a focus on Religious Education, Church Theory and Pastoral Theology at the Faculty of Theology, University of Zurich. Since January 1, 2021, he has served as Director of the University Research Priority Program 'Digital Religion(s): Communication, Interaction and Transformation in the Digital Society.' He is also Chairman of the Board of the Center for Church Development (ZKE), which he co-founded in June 2010. Previously, he served as Dean of the Faculty of Theology (2014-2016) and Vice Dean for Teaching (2012-2014). 1965: Born in Stuttgart 1980-1985: Attended Protestant seminaries Maulbronn and Blaubeuren 1986-1993: Studied Protestant Theology and Political Science in Tübingen and Munich 1993-1996: Doctorate at University of Munich 2004-2005: DFG research fellowship at University of Tübingen 2005: Appointed Assistant Professor at University of Zurich 2009: Habilitation at University of Tübingen 2011: Appointed Professor at University of Zurich Professor Schlag's work centers on the intersection of theology, education, and digital transformation. His research examines how religious practices adapt to digital environments, with particular focus on religious education in schools, confirmation work, and church youth programs. He explores theological-anthropological interpretations of digital transformation and investigates the relationship between church, state, and civil society through the lens of 'Public Theology.' His current projects analyze digital media practices in church educational offerings and investigate how churches negotiate digital worship services and sacraments. His recent publications reveal a strong emphasis on digital religion, with numerous articles examining digital media in confirmation work, religious leadership in digital contexts, and the challenges churches face in adapting to digital transformation. His work spans practical theology, religious education theory, and ecclesiology, with a particular focus on Swiss religious contexts while maintaining international comparative perspectives. The research demonstrates increasing interdisciplinary collaboration, particularly with scholars examining digital innovation in religious contexts. As Director of the University Research Priority Program 'Digital Religion(s),' Professor Schlag leads a significant interdisciplinary research initiative exploring how digital technologies transform religious communication, interaction, and practices. His work has practical implications for church development, religious education, and theological reflection in the digital age. He actively collaborates with international research networks including the European Network for Confirmation Work and the International Academy of Practical Theology.

• Practical Theology
• Religious Education
• Digital Religion
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Mennatallah El-Assady serves as Assistant Professor at ETH Zurich's Department of Computer Science, where she leads the Interactive Visualization and Intelligence Augmentation Lab (IVIA). Her academic trajectory includes research fellowships at ETH's AI Center and doctoral work at University of Konstanz and OntarioTech University, establishing her expertise at the intersection of visualization and artificial intelligence. Her research focuses on advancing responsible data-driven decision-making through human-centered analytics, with particular emphasis on explainable machine learning systems. Dr. El-Assady combines data mining techniques with visual interfaces to create transparent AI workflows, specializing in text data analysis. Her work bridges computational linguistics, digital humanities, and information visualization to develop tools that make complex AI processes interpretable for end users. Recent publications demonstrate growing focus on generative AI's impact on visualization practices and sophisticated frameworks for interactive machine learning. Her research consistently addresses the challenge of maintaining human agency in increasingly automated systems, with applications spanning political debate analysis, musicology, and healthcare data interpretation. The trend shows increasing sophistication in evaluation methodologies for visual analytics systems. Best Paper Award: Honorable Mention for 'Progressive Learning of Topic Modeling Parameters: A Visual Analytics Framework' Dr. El-Assady actively shapes her field through workshop leadership including ArgVis (Argument Visualization), Vis4DH (Visualization for Digital Humanities), and VISxAI (Visualization for AI Explainability). Her teaching includes 'Interactive Machine Learning- Visualization and Explainability' at ETH Zurich, training next-generation researchers in human-centered AI development. She maintains strong industry connections with coverage in Forbes and ETH News regarding human-AI collaboration frameworks. The Interactive Visualization and Intelligence Augmentation Lab (IVIA) develops cutting-edge tools including explAIner for transparent machine learning, LingVis for linguistic analysis, VisArgue for debate structure visualization, and VALIDA for political deliberation analysis. These projects share a common thread of enhancing human understanding through carefully designed visual interfaces that expose AI decision processes.

• Visual Analytics
• Information Visualization
• Computational Linguistics
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Gerold Schneider is an Associate Professor at the University of Zurich , affiliated with the Department of Computational Linguistics under the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and Faculty of Business, Economics and Informatics . He leads the Text Crunching Center (TCC) , focusing on interdisciplinary research at the intersection of NLP, Digital Humanities, and Health Data Science. Research Interests His work spans Text Analytics , Digital Humanities , Corpus Linguistics , and Health Data Science , with applications in: Biomedical NLP (e.g., Alzheimer’s detection, clinical trials) Digital Humanities projects (e.g., analyzing Charles Dickens, UN archives) Migration discourse framing across languages Adversarial data collection for hate speech detection Interdisciplinary methodologies for digital unstructured data Recent Publications 2025–2024 research highlights include annotated corpora for preclinical and neurological studies, AI-driven analysis of historical linguistic variation, and innovative tools for language learners. His NLP applications address health diagnostics, ethical AI, and cross-lingual political discourse. Labs & Teams As TCC leader, he spearheads collaborative projects within the Digital Society Initiative (DSI) communities (AI & Law, Health, Ethics, etc.), integrating computational methods with humanities and health research.

• Computational Linguistics
• Digital Humanities
• Corpus Linguistics
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Professor Nick Chater is a leading figure in the field of Behavioural Science, affiliated with the University of Warwick at Warwick Business School since 2010. He has held previous chairs in psychology at Warwick and UCL. His research spans cognitive and social foundations of rationality, with applications to business and public policy, and he has authored over 200 papers and six books. He is a fellow of the British Academy, Cognitive Science Society, and Association for Psychological Science. His research interests include cognitive science, behavioral economics, decision making, and computational psychology, with a focus on reasoning, language, and mathematical modeling of mental processes. He has been recognized with prestigious awards such as the Spearman Medal, Experimental Psychology Society Prize, and the David E Rumelhart Prize for lifetime achievement in cognitive science. His work extends to practical applications through co-founding Decision Technology and advising the UK government's Climate Change Committee and the Behavioural Insight Team. Recent publications highlight his interdisciplinary approach, bridging economics, cognitive science, computational modeling, and behavioral public policy. Topics include thermal macroeconomic theory, Bayesian sampling, paradoxes in cognition, and language emergence via social interaction. These works emphasize probability judgments, moral cognition, and computational limitations in human inference. British Psychological Society's Spearman Medal (1996) Experimental Psychology Society Prize (1997) David E Rumelhart Prize (2023) PROSE Award (2019) Chater's academic contributions include collaborations with researchers like Adam N. Sanborn, Hossam Zeitoun, and Morten H. Christiansen, focusing on Bayesian inference, behavioral public policy, and cognitive modeling. He has also been a resident scientist on BBC Radio 4's The Human Zoo.

• Cognitive Science
• Behavioral Economics
• Decision Making
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Urs Lang is a Full Professor at the Department of Mathematics, ETH Zurich, where he has held a professorship since 2001. His academic journey began with mathematics studies at the University of Berne and the University of Freiburg i.Br., culminating in a doctoral degree focused on hyperbolic geometry and minimal surfaces. Education: University of Berne (undergraduate) University of Freiburg i.Br. (doctoral degree) Lang's research lies at the intersection of differential geometry , metric geometry , and geometric group theory . His work explores non-positive curvature spaces, geometric measure theory, and large-scale Lipschitz analysis. Recent publications examine combinatorial hyperbolicity, isoperimetric inequalities, and rank-rigidity phenomena. The publications overview reveals a consistent focus on geometric structures, including: Higher-rank hyperbolicity in singular spaces Convex geodesic bicombings Injective hulls in geometric group theory Nonlinear potential theory on hyperbolic metric spaces Lipschitz extension problems Curvature comparison theorems Lang actively contributes to academic discourse through editorial roles at journals like Geometry and Topology and Analysis and Geometry in Metric Spaces , as well as organizing major conferences including the 2025 Metric Analysis Trimester Program at Bonn's Hausdorff Institute.

• Differential Geometry
• Metric Geometry
• Geometric Measure Theory
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Sandro Zanetti, Full Professor of General and Comparative Literature at the University of Zurich's Faculty of Arts and Humanities, specializes in avant-garde research, artistic production processes, and poetics of (im)probability. He studied German, History, and Philosophy at Basel, Freiburg, and Tübingen (1993-1999), earned his PhD in 2005 at Basel's SNSF project, and held positions including Junior Professor at Hildesheim (2008-2011) and DFG network head (2010-2014). Since 2011 at UZH, he progressed from Assistant to Full Professor (2022) and serves as Co-Dean of Studies since 2021. Current affiliations: Department of General and Comparative Literature (UZH), Center for Arts and Cultural Theory (ZKK), Literary Radio Zurich Former roles: ZGW Center (2010-2022), SNF project leader (2015-2019), Co-editor of History of the Present (2016-present) His research explores: Avant-garde genealogies and postwar literary modernity Time perception and aesthetic temporality Writing as cultural technique Interdisciplinary intersections with philosophy, media studies, and art Publications reveal trends in: 2022-2024: Dada historiography, AI-generated literature, Paul Celan's late works 2019-2021: Aesthetic theory, transactuality, Barthesian concepts 2014-2017: Improvisation networks, multilingualism, collaborative writing He co-founded interdisciplinary platforms and maintains editorial roles across 15 anthologies since 2004.

• Artistic Production Processes
• Avant-garde Research
• Poetics of (Im)Probability
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Martin Volk is a Full Professor of Computational Linguistics at the University of Zurich, with a dual affiliation to the Department of Informatics since 2019. He holds a PhD from the University of Koblenz and has held academic positions at institutions including Stockholm University (part-time from 2008-2011), Zurich University of Applied Sciences, and the University of Georgia. His research focuses on grammar engineering, machine translation evaluation, multilingual text analysis, and cross-language information retrieval. Education : Born in Cochem, Germany Studied Computer Science and Computational Linguistics at EWH University, Koblenz Master's in Artificial Intelligence at the University of Georgia (Fulbright Scholar) PhD in Computational Linguistics from the University of Koblenz Research Interests : His work emphasizes data-driven NLP methods, including corpus-based approaches, parsing technologies, and the application of machine learning to historical and multilingual texts. Key focuses include: Machine translation systems and evaluation frameworks Grammar testing environments (e.g., GTU) OCR and digitization of historical documents (e.g., Gothic script) Development of parallel corpora for linguistic research Projects : SMULTRON: Multilingual parallel treebank project Bullinger Digital: Historical document digitization initiative Text+Berg: Digital Humanities project for alpine textual heritage EU-funded MuchMore (cross-language medical IR) Grants & Collaborations : Recipient of grants from the Swiss National Science Foundation, EU projects, and industry partnerships (e.g., Siemens, Xerox). His work integrates academic and industrial perspectives in NLP tool development. Labs & Teams : Leads research teams in the Institute of Computational Linguistics at UZH, focusing on projects like the Zurich Parallel Corpus Collection and MODERN (modeling discourse for MT).

• Computational Linguistics
• Machine Translation
• Natural Language Processing
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Roberto Weber is the UBS Foundation Professor of Economics of Corporate Culture, Business Ethics, and Social Responsibility at the University of Zurich's Department of Economics. He also serves as Director of the Zurich Graduate School of Economics and was previously Vice Chairman of the Department of Economics (2017–2021). His research focuses on behavioral and experimental economics, moral decision-making, and organizational/institutional studies. He holds a Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology (2000) and has held academic appointments at Carnegie Mellon University and Maastricht University. Education: Ph.D. in Social Science, California Institute of Technology (2000) MS in Social Science, California Institute of Technology (1996) BA in Economics, Texas A&M University (1994) Research Interests: His work explores behavioral and experimental economics, decision-making under moral constraints, and organizational dynamics. He investigates how cultural, institutional, and ethical factors shape economic outcomes, with contributions to leadership studies, social responsibility, and experimental methodologies. Awards and Roles: CESifo Research Network Fellow Department Editor for Behavioral Economics and Decision Analysis at Management Science Board of Trustees, Excellence Foundation Zurich (2012–2022) Leadership and Grants: He oversees the Zurich Graduate School of Economics and has directed various research initiatives. His experimental studies often involve collaborations on topics like trust, leadership effectiveness, and ethical decision-making frameworks. Labs and Teams: Associated with experimental economics labs, including the Pittsburgh Experimental Economics Laboratory (PEEL) and the Economic Science Institute (Chapman University), he contributes to interdisciplinary research in behavioral economics.

• Behavioral Economics
• Experimental Economics
• Decision Making
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Christoph Stadtfeld is Associate Professor of Social Networks at ETH Zurich's Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences and co-director of the ETH Social Networks Lab. His research examines social network dynamics, focusing on tie formation processes, network effects on individuals, and advanced statistical methodologies for longitudinal network analysis. Education: PhD from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (2011) Postdoctoral researcher and Marie-Curie fellow at University of Groningen, University of Lugano, and MIT Media Lab (2011-2014) His work bridges sociology, statistics, and computer science to address fundamental questions about how social structures evolve and influence behavior. Key interests include relational event modeling, co-evolution of networks and attributes, and applications in mental health, political polarization, and scientific collaboration. He develops innovative methods for analyzing dynamic networks using cutting-edge computational approaches. Recent publications reveal strong emphasis on methodological rigor in temporal network analysis, with significant contributions to relational event modeling and dynamic network actor frameworks. His work increasingly addresses societal challenges including political polarization, mental health impacts of social isolation, and innovation dynamics in healthcare. Scientific awards: Raymond Boudon Award of the European Academy of Sociology (2017) Freeman Award of the International Network for Social Network Analysis (2021) As co-director of the ETH Social Networks Lab, Stadtfeld leads interdisciplinary research teams developing novel network methodologies. His work has been supported by prestigious fellowships including Marie-Curie funding, and he actively mentors graduate students in network science methodology and applications across diverse domains. The ETH Social Networks Lab serves as a hub for advancing network theory and methodology, with ongoing projects examining student networks during crises, scientific collaboration dynamics, and innovation ecosystems through the lens of network science.

• Social Network Analysis
• Dynamics of Social Networks
• Statistical Methods for Network Data
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Jing Zeng is an Assistant Professor of Computational Communication Science at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. She holds a PhD in Media and Communication from Queensland University of Technology (2017), an MSc in Social Science of the Internet from the Oxford Internet Institute (2013), and a BA in International Communications from the University of Nottingham (2012). Her research focuses on digital platforms, computational social science, AI governance, and misinformation dynamics. She has held academic appointments at Utrecht University (2022–2024) and fellowships at institutions including the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science and the Weizenbaum Institute. Zeng is a leader in digital media research, serving on editorial boards for journals such as Big Data & Society and Convergence , and co-editing the Technology, Power & Society book series. Her work bridges critical platform studies with empirical analyses of conspiracy theories, climate communication, and TikTok culture. Zeng’s research has been recognized through awards including the ICA Computational Methods Interest Group Top Paper (2020) and the Utrecht University Teaching Award (2023). She actively engages in public discourse through media commentaries in The Guardian , The Atlantic , and Science|Business , addressing topics like AI ethics, platform governance, and disinformation. Her current projects explore AI imaginaries, visibility moderation on TikTok, and cross-cultural digital activism. Education: PhD (QUT), MSc (Oxford), BA (Nottingham) Affiliations: Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR Executive Board), IPIE Scientific Network

• Computational Social Science
• Digital Media Studies
• Communication Science
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Gautam Gowrisankaran is a Professor of Economics at Columbia University , with affiliations as a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), and a Professeur affilié at HEC Montréal. His research spans Health Economics , Industrial Organization , and Environmental Economics . Primary Affiliation : Columbia University, Department of Economics Secondary Affiliations : NBER, CEPR, HEC Montréal His work investigates dynamic market behaviors , including hospital pricing under Medicare reforms, energy transitions in regulated markets, and the impact of policy uncertainty on technology adoption. Recent publications focus on renewable energy integration , insurance market dynamics , and environmental regulation enforcement . Key trends in his research include applied microeconomic modeling , policy evaluation , and strategic interactions in markets with high stakes such as healthcare and energy. His methodological approach often combines structural estimation with empirical data analysis . Notable Grants : Doctoral Dissertation Research in Economics (Effect of Certified Nurse Midwife Scope-of-Practice Laws) Gautam actively contributes to academic discourse through collaborations with institutions like the University of Arizona and University of Chicago . His work addresses critical societal challenges, including healthcare affordability, energy sustainability, and regulatory efficiency.

• Health Economics
• Industrial Organization
• Environmental Economics
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