Our team
Professor David Garcia
Room: D338
Phone: +49 7531-88-4892
University of Konstanz
center of Data and Methods Box 92
D-78457 Konstanz
Room: D340
Center of Data and Methods
Box 92
D-78457 Konstanz
Giordano di Marzo
Center of Data and Methods
Box 92
D-78457 Konstanz
Dr. Taehee Kim
Center of Data and Methods
Box 92
D-78457 Konstanz
Room: D347
Center of Data and Methods
Box 92
D-78457 Konstanz
Center of Data and Methods
Box 92
D-78457 Konstanz
Associate Members of the Team
Jana Lasser is interim Professor (W3) for Computational Social Sciences and Humanities at RWTH Aachen. She closely collaborates with the Social Data Science lab in Konstanz on research about prosocial behavior and misinformation in online media.
Hannah Metzler is postdoctoral scientist at the Complexity Science Hub Vienna. She is co-leads the lab's research on emotional well being and misinformation.
University of Konstanz
Center of Data and Methods
Box 92
D-78457 Konstanz
Alina Herderich is a doctoral researcher at the Graz University of Technology. She studies how computational methods can be used to understand emotion regulation. She is currently visitng Harvard University.
Julia Lühring is a doctoral researcher at the University of Vienna and resident scientist at the Complexity Science Hub Vienna. She works on observational analysis of misinformation on social media.
Apeksha Shetty is a doctoral researcher at the University of Vienna and resident scientist at the Complexity Science Hub Vienna. She studies interventions against the spreading of misinformation.
Emma Fraxanet is a doctoral researcher at Pompeu Fabra University. She studies polarization and signed networks in online media.
Past collaborators
Anna Di Natale – Doctoral Researcher at the Graz University of Technology (2019-2023), continued as Postdoc the University of Passau
Max Pellert – Doctoral Researcher at the Medical University of Vienna (2018-2021), continued as Assistant Professor at the University of Mannheim
Simon Schweighofer – Postdoctoral Researcher at the Medical University of Vienna (2018-2019), continued as Assistant Professor at XJTL University
Current and former master students and interns
- Áron Sármány (SEDS master thesis WS 2023/24)
- Gina-Maria Unger (SEDS master thesis WS 2023/24)
- Maria Gonzalez (SEDS master thesis WS 2023/24)
- Mats Faulborn (SEDS master thesis WS 2023/24)
- Nele Hapig (SEDS master thesis WS 2023/24)
- Trinidad Bosch Achondo (SEDS master thesis WS 2023/24)
- Esther Simmendinger (SEDS master thesis SS 2023): "Computational modelling of the effects of emotion and algorithm design on the spread of misinformation on Twitter". Next stage: Data Scientist at The Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED).