GESIS Ambassadors are international senior researchers who are active in a topic area of interest to GESIS. They promote scientific collaboration by proposing outstanding junior researchers from their network to visit GESIS as part of a research stay funded by us. As a group of external experts, Ambassadors help inspire and motivate Ph.D. students and early career postdocs to submit a short proposal on topics of mutual interest within the Junior Program.
The GESIS Ambassadors are appointed for three years at a time. The respective appointment can be extended for a further three years.
List of GESIS Ambassadors
Name | Expertise | Collaboration with department |
| (National University of Singapore) | Computer-mediated communication | |
| (International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad) | Cyber security, social computing | |
Assist. Prof. Josephine Lukito (University of Texas at Austin) | Computational linguistics, natural language processing, human and automated content analysis, text-as-data strategies | Computational Social Science (CSS)
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| (University of Luxembourg) | Immigration, Socioeconomics, Ethnicity, Labor Sociology, Health, Healthcare, International Migration, Social Stratification, Gender Discrimination | |
| (FORS, Switzerland) | Research data management, such as data security, informed consent, and anonymization | Data Services for the Social Sciences (DSS) |
| (University of Amsterdam) | Data Search, Knowledge Graph Construction, Information Retrieval, Machine Learning | |
| (Leiden University)
| Natural Language Processing (NLP), Information Retrieval (IR), Text Mining | |
| (Stockholm University) | Governance, legitimacy, and climate cooperation | Survey Data Curation (SDC) |
| (London School of Economics and Political Science) | Political behaviour, public opinion and the EU, and comparative politics
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| (University of Illinois at Chicago, NORC at the University of Chicago) | Measurement and nonresponse error in surveys, social epidemiology of health behaviors in disadvantaged population, cross-national surveys, survey operations | |
| (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) | Nonresponse, interviewer, paradata, measurement error, weighting, privacy research, data linkage, smart surveys, data science | |
| (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona) | Survey measurement errors, data quality, mode of data collection, web surveys, mobile participation, metered data |