Staff

The many faces of GESIS

Vita

After completing a BA in European Studies at the University of Passau, I sought to enhance my background with expertise in Computer Science. The dual subject teacher program in Brandenburg and Berlin uniquely offered a combination of Political Science and Computer Science, which aligned perfectly with my interests. During my tenure at the University of Potsdam, I had the privilege of working under Professor Ulrike Lucke, a leading figure in e-learning research in Germany. This experience pivotaly shifted my focus from Computational Social Science (CSS) to learning technologies.

While in Potsdam, I developed a pioneering concept on the persistence of learning outcomes and its applications. However, encountering challenges in mainstreaming the COMPBASE platform for testing, I redirected my thesis toward Inquiry-Based Learning, leading to the creation of the FL-Trail tool.

Following my PhD, I briefly joined Humboldt University in Berlin, where I co-authored one of the first conceptual papers on fostering creativity through e-learning. Subsequently, I decided to return to my roots in the social sciences, accepting a PostDoc position at the University of Göttingen in the CSS field. Here, our team has been developing an innovative chatbot designed to facilitate deliberation on social media, which is nearing operational functionality.

Finally, my path led me to GESIS where I am now working as a research software engeneer trying to bring in my experience from the CSS side as well as the learning technologies.


Service

Community Engagement
  • Member of GI/E-Learning
  • Organizer for Sektionstagung Methoden der DVPW
  • PC for DELFI

Research

Group 1: Educational Technologies
  • Algorithms in Education: Specializing in group formation and peer assessment methods.
  • Modeling of Learning Processes and Software Development: Developing tools that facilitate enhanced learning experiences.
  • Learning Analytics and Creativity Research: Employing data analytics to understand and foster creativity in educational contexts.
  • Higher Education Pedagogy: Exploring innovative teaching methods and their efficacy in university settings.
  • Curriculum Research: Investigating the longevity and efficacy of competence models in education.
  • Language Technologies and Conversation Analysis: Analyzing conversational patterns and language use in educational technologies.

Group 2: Public Sphere and Digital Media

  • Network Analysis and Political Media: Studying the impact of network structures on media and politics.
  • Political Theory and Media Functions: Exploring the interplay between media dynamics and political theories.
  • Deliberation Theory: Researching the processes of public opinion formation and discourse.
  • Crowd-based Research: Harnessing the power of crowdsourcing to gather data and insights on public opinion and media trends.
  • NLP and Political Science: Detecting Social Group Appeals or Analyzing Coalition Agreements.



Publications

Journal article

Dehne, Julian, Jessica Daikeler, Henning Silber, Beatrice Rammstedt, Prof. Dr. Florian Keusch (Universität Mannheim), Prof. Dr. Frauke Kreuter Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Johannes N. Blumenberg, Clemens Lechner, David Schoch, Pascal Siegers, Stefan Jünger, and Katrin Weller. 2024. "Die Vermittlung von Best Practices zur Messung von Datenqualität in den quantitativen Sozialwissenschaften." Proceedings of the INFORMATIK 2024. doi: https://doi.org/10.18420/inf2024_193.

Event

Wieland, Mareike, Johannes Breuer, Julian Kohne, Lukas Otto, Julian Dehne, and Danica Radovanović. 2024. "Lasting Open Science Contributions: How Can We Sustain Research Software Together?" Gemeinsame Fachgruppentagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Publizistik und Kommunikationswissenschaften - Methoden & DigiKomm 2024, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, 2024-09-19 - 2024-09-19.