Teaching

I’ve taught courses at GESIS, RWTH-Aachen, the University of Konstanz, and the University of Mannheim besides one-off external invited workshops. I’m currently teaching the following in Mannheim:

• Scientific Programming with Python: Also taught in 2025, hands-on intro to Python for master’s students in data science, management, and economics

• Large Language Models for the Economic and Social Sciences: Also taught in 2025, interdisciplinary lectures and exercises in using LLMs for social research as well as the social impacts of LLMs

• Text Analytics: Introductory NLP course for master’s students

Past Courses

2025 - 2026

• Simulating Human Survey Responses with Large Language Models: Potentials and Pitfalls: Tutorial at IC2S2’26
• Social Media Data Analysis: interdisciplinary lectures and exercises in using using social media data to study society as well as the impacts of social media on society

2024

• The Social Informatics of Large Language Models: Lectures and exercises on the basics of LLMs and their impact on society for master’s students (co-taught and co-designed with David Garcia)
• Measurement and Representation Biases in Digital Trace Data-based Studies: Seminar at the University of Konstanz

2020

• From the total survey error framework to an error framework for digital traces of humans: translation tutorial: Tutorial at the ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT)