Staff

The many faces of GESIS

Vita

Mazlum Karatas is a postdoctoral researcher in the CEWS team at GESIS. He is a quantitative researcher with a Ph.D. in Economics. He received his Ph.D. and Master's degrees at Università Politecnica delle Marche in Italy.

At CEWS, he is a research assistant of the EU-funded INSPIRE project. The project's objective is to establish Europe's sustainable centre of excellence for inclusive gender equality. His methodological research contributes to the development of suitable instruments and methods for the Europe-wide monitoring of gender equality plans at scientific and research intensive institutions.

Research

Research

His research focus of his doctoral studies has been on the impact of cultural factors on international trade and economics. His current research has focused on reactive (survey) and non-reactive data collection methods, e.g., web scraping and automated text analysis.

His research interests are:

  • Text mining
  • Large Language Models (LLMs)
  • Web scraping / web crawling
  • Survey Methodology
  • Intersection between Gender and Culture
  • Cultural Economics
  • Gender Equality  
  • Economics of Religion

Publications

Monograph

Karatas, Mazlum. 2022. Cultural Aspects of International Trade. https://hdl.handle.net/11566/305339.

Working and discussion paper

Karatas, Mazlum. 2024. D3.1 GEP Prevalence Monitoring Indicator framework v1. doi: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11516872.

Löther, Andrea, Mazlum Karatas, and Lena Weber. 2023. D2.1f Literature Review Data Monitoring. doi: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10033668.

Data/Software

Karatas, Mazlum. 2024. Gep Information Retrieval. https://github.com/InspireQualityeu/gep-information-retrieval.

SYSTEMS, INNO, and Mazlum Karatas. 2024. GEP Scraper. https://github.com/InspireQualityeu/gep-scraper.

Presentation at a conference

Karatas, Mazlum. 2021. "Religious Similarity and Exports." Cultural Economics and Finance Conference, 2021-11-05.

Presentation not at a conference

Karatas, Mazlum. 2023. "Discussion: GEP Monitoring Survey." INSPIRE Project Meeting 2, ZRC SAZU, Ljubljana, 2023-06-20.

Karatas, Mazlum. 2023. "Discussion: Indicator development ." INSPIRE Project Meeting 2 Ljubljana, ZRC SAZU, Ljubljana, 2023-06-20.

Karatas, Mazlum. 2023. "Findings and Recommendations of the Report: Data Monitoring on Gender Equality Plans." INSPIRE Project Meeting 2, ZRC SAZU, Ljubljana, 2023-06-20.