About Me
I’m a Data Scientist, Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning practitioner.
I am passionate about using my skills in a socially beneficial and impactful way.
Work Experiences
University Leipzig
October 2022 - February 2023Lecturer Data Journalism in Python: A practical introduction into programming
Data Journalism in Python is a practical introduction into programming specifically designed for journalists. Besides the basic syntax in Python, the course covers the data processing and analysis, visualization, as well as accessing data via API or scraping it.
teaching
python
data analysis
scraper
API
ida
since September 2020Teamlead Data Science
The goal of the data science team at ida is to explore the full potential of AI and automation to open up possibilities and to empower journalists. More concrete tasks include the automated reporting of election results, supporting community manager in efficiently responding to false claims, making information accessible in simple language, as well as analysing the usage of ppublished articles.
automation
machine learning
data analysis
business intelligence
HURIDOCS
Feb 2016 - Apr 2020NLP & ML Specialist
I've been working with HURIDOCS to support human rights defenders with technology. In order to make machine learning and natural language processing accessible to human rights organizations, I built state-of-the-art tools to extract, filter and connect relevant information in large document collections. My responsibilities included the communication of our methodology and results to external partners. Intenmally, I laid the foundations for a conceptual understanding of machine learning with its possibilities and limitations and helped to integrate it into the long-term strategy of HURIDOCS.
human rights
NLP
machine learning
Freelance Work
Sep 2018 - Sep 2019Web App Development
Within this part-time work I had the opporutnity to learn the basics of web application development with Angular. The goal was to create an interactive website to fill in customer information, retrieve respective data from a server and based on their combination compute and visualize a customer's costs. This freelance work taught me so much about code architecture, object oriented programming and time managment.
web development
database
Angular
MediaUncovered
Apr 2018 - Sep 2018Data Analyst
With the support of the Prototype Fund I had the opportunity to dedicate a lot of time to MediaUncovered. This project included everything from scraping data, storing and analyzing large collections of texts, working with word embeddings, researching new methods to compare statistical models up to building an interactive web app with appealing and understandable visuals.
bias
machine learning
NLP
Education
Radboud University
Feb 2015 - May 2017Master in Artificial Intelligence
Specialization: Computation in Neural and Artificial Systems
With a focus on computational modeling the Master program consists of an intriguing mix of Machine Learning, Bayesian Networks,Text Mining, Cognitive Neuroscience, Philosophy and Ethics courses.
University of Tübingen
Oct 2011 - Sep 2014Bachelor in Cognitive Science
Cognitive Sciencists research the human abilities such as perception, awareness, memory, language, thinking and problem solving. Their goal is to understand, enhance and to artificially simulate and recreate them.
Fellowships & Grants
Apr 2019 - Jun 2019
Data Science for Society Fellowship
CorrelAid
CorrelAid is a network of data scientists who provide consultancy, data analysis and trainings for non-profit organisations. The fellowship a diverse team works together with a local non-profit organisation to address their data challenges.
Apr 2018 - Jul 2018
Aaron Swartz Fellowship
Vera and Donald Blinken Open Society Archives / European University
The intention of the fellowship is to make knowledge and data broadly available to the public; to rethink information management practices in libraries and archives and to challenge the control of information by governments and publishers to promote civil liberties and online activism.
Apr 2019 - Sep 2018
PrototypeFund
Federal Ministry for Research and Education
The Prototype Fund supports ideas in civic tech, data literacy, data security and software infrastructure. Software developers, hackers, and creatives can code and develop innovative open source prototypes. In this round I've been working on MediaUncovered.
Sep 2017 - Feb 2018
PrototypeFund
Federal Ministry for Research and Education
With UwaziML we focused on supporting human rights organisations with machine learning to help them with their information management challenges.