Visiting Assistant Professor @ Indiana University Bloomington

Computational Social Scientist

I study how political narratives and antisemitic discourse emerge and spread across social media platforms using large-scale computational methods.

Focus areas: Political polarization / Contemporary antisemitism / Multimodal discourse (text–image–video) / Hate speech & emotion detection / Large-scale social media corpora / Corpus Linguistics /

Short CV

• Visiting Assistant Professor (2025–Present), Indiana University Bloomington, Borns Jewish Studies Program
• Faculty Lecturer (2024–2025), Regensburg University of Applied Sciences
• Ph.D. in General Linguistics (2021–2024), Technical University of Berlin
  Online-Antisemitismus verstehen: Hassrede im Web 2.0 (summa cum laude)

Technical Skills

• Programming: Python, R
• NLP & ML: Transformer models, LLMs, parsing, speech-to-text
• Multimodal Analysis: Vision-language models , video frame extraction, cross-modal pipelines
• Infrastructure: HPC (Jetstream2), GPU computing, large-scale data processing
• Tools: Git, Colab, Label Studio, Jira, LaTeX, TOPHAT, Canvas

Academic Memberships

• International Communication Association (ICA)
• Gesellschaft für Sprachtechnologie und Computerlinguistik (GSCL)
• AK Antisemitismusforschung, Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Soziologie

Awards & Fellowships

• Research Fellow 2025–Present, London Centre for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism (LCSCA)
• Samerian Foundation Visiting Research Fellowship 2025–Present, Indiana University
• ISGAP-Oxford Summer Institute, Curriculum Development 2024 July–August, University of Oxford
• Ph.D. Fellowship 2021–2024, Hans-Boeckler Foundation
• M.A. Graduate Fellowship 2017–2019, Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes