The many faces of GESIS
Vita
Lukas Birkenmaier is a research associate and doctoral student at GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences in Mannheim. From 2015-2019, he completed his Bachelor's degree (B.A.) in Political and Administrative Sciences at the University of Konstanz with stays in Maastricht (Netherlands) and Berlin. He then earned a Master's degree (M.A.) in Political and Administrative Sciences with a specialization in Public Administration and Management. At the same time, he completed a Master's degree (M.Sc.) in Big Data and Digital Futures at the University of Warwick (UK), which he graduated with distinction in 2021Publications
Journal article
Daikeler, Jessica, Leon Froehling, Indira Sen, Lukas Birkenmaier, Tobias Gummer, Jan Schwalbach, Henning Silber, Bernd Weiß, Katrin Weller, and Clemens Lechner. 2025. "Assessing Data Quality in the Age of Digital Social Research: A Systematic Review." Social Science Computer Review 43 (5): 943-979. doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/08944393241245395.
Birkenmaier, Lukas, and Clemens Lechner. 2025. "Measuring Politicians’ Public Personality Traits Using Computational Text Analysis: A Multimethod Feasibility Study for Agency and Communion." Political Analysis online first: . doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/pan.2025.10025.
Fröhling, Leon, Lukas Birkenmaier, and Jessica Daikeler. 2023. "Garbage in - Garbage out? : Datenqualität im Umgang mit digitalen Verhaltensdaten." Easy social sciences 2023 (68): 21-31. doi: https://doi.org/10.15464/easy.2023.03.
Birkenmaier, Lukas, Clemens Lechner, and Claudia Wagner. 2023. "The search for solid ground in text as data: A systematic review and practical recommendations for validation." Communication Methods and Measures 2024 (18(3)): 249-277. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/19312458.2023.2285765.
Chapter in an edited book
Birkenmaier, Lukas, Stefan Haußner, and Michael Kaeding. 2023. "Die unbeachtete Wahlrevolution: Analyse der Briefwahl bei der Bundestagswahl 2021." In Die Bundestagswahl 2021. Analysen der Wahl-, Parteien-, Kommunikations- und Regierungsforschung, edited by Karl-Rudolf Korte, Maximilian Schiffers, Arno Von Schuckmann, and Sandra Plümer, 189-205. Wiesbaden: Springer VS. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-35754-2_30.
Birkenmaier, Lukas, Stefan Haußner, and Michael Kaeding. 2023. "Ungleiche Wahlbeteiligung in pandemischen Zeiten: Gibt es einen Corona-Effekt?" In Die Bundestagswahl 2021. Analysen der Wahl-, Parteien-, Kommunikations- und Regierungsforschung, edited by Karl-Rudolf Korte, Maximilian Schiffers, Arno Von Schuckmann, and Sandra Plümer, 171-187. Wiesbaden: Springer VS. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-35754-2_8.
Working and discussion paper
Froehling, Leon, Lukas Birkenmaier, Vanessa Lux, and Jessica Daikeler. 2025. How to Find and Explore Data Quality Frameworks for Digital Behavioral Data. GESIS Guides to Digital Behavioral Data 26. Köln: GESIS. doi: https://doi.org/10.60762/ggdbd25026.1.0.
Presentation at a conference
Lux, Vanessa, Lukas Birkenmaier, Johannes Breuer, Jessica Daikeler, Dr. Fiona Draxler, Judith Gilsbach, Julian Kohne, Frank Mangold, Katrin Weller, and Mareike Wieland. 2025. "Data Quality Assessment of Sensor Data Collections in the Context of Surveys: Potential Pitfalls and a Proposition for a General Sensor Error Framework." ESRA 2025: 11th Conference of the European Survey Research Association, Utrecht (The Netherlands), Utrecht University, Utrecht, 2025-07-16.
Birkenmaier, Lukas. 2022. "Measuring Parliament Polarization during the Covid-19 Pandemic: A Comparison and Validation of Methods using Text-as-Data." 41. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie, Universität Bielefeld, Bielefeld, 2022-09-28.