Experience

  1. Researcher in the ERC project LEGACIES

    Norwegian University for Science and Technology

    Responsibilities include:

    • Georeferencing historical maps for Africa and Asia (1750-1920)
    • Extracting information on historical polities with NLP techniques

  2. Teaching assistant in Media Sociology

    Norwegian University for Science and Technology

    Responsibilities include:

    • Lecturing on communicator-focused research topics
    • Seminars centred on conducting a quantitative content analysis of media texts

Education

  1. PhD Political Science

    Norwegian University of Science and Technology
    My dissertation investigates political and media communication on social media during Covid-19 and its effects on audiences – Aligning and deviating voices: Toward a theory of cultural resonance in political communication. Supervised by .
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  2. M.Sc. Communication Science

    University of Amsterdam

    Grade: 7.8

    Specialization:

    • Political Communication and Journalism Studies
    • Methodology and Research-intensive program

  3. B.A. Sociology and Communication Science

    Ludwig-Maximilian University Munich (LMU)

    Grade: 1.98

    Specialization:

    • Journalism Studies
    • Sociology of Gender and Religion
    • International migration
Skills
Technical Skills
Python

NLP, unsupervised and supervised ML

R

multilevel data analysis, data wrangling & visualization

QGIS

georeferencing historical maps

ATLAS.ti

facilitate qualitative analysis

Data analysis
LLMs

classification tasks for text analysis, sentiment analysis, topic modeling

Statistical modeling

multilevel models, negative binomial regression

Qualitative text analysis

(linguistic) discourse analysis, grounded theory

Qualitative data collection

(expert) interviews, focus groups

Awards & Grants
Mentee ECREA PolCom Mentoring Program
ECREA Political Communication ∙ November 2021
Mentor Prof. Dr. Annie Waldherr, University of Vienna, Austria.
Co-applicant Strategic research funds (15,000 Euro)
Department of Sociology and Political Science, NTNU ∙ February 2020
Funding for the data collection of a three-country survey experiment focusing on the cultural resonance of policy proposals in a future crisis situation.
Applicant Funding for research stay abroad (4,000 Euro)
Faculty of Social and Educational Sciences, NTNU ∙ April 2020
Funding for a two month research stay at the Computational Communication Lab at the University of Vienna.
Languages
100%
Romanian
100%
English
90%
German
25%
Norwegian