Currently Involved

Name Affiliation Area(s) of Interest


Prof. Dr. Wiebke Loosen

Hans-Bredow-Institute for Media Research

(Spokesperson)

  • journalism research
  • online communication
  • methods of empirical communication research


Prof. Dr. Walid Maalej

University of Hamburg
Head of the Applied Software
Technology group

(Spokesperson)

  • innovative mobile services
  • context-aware adaptive systems
  • human factors in software engineering


Prof. Dr. Chris Biemann

University of Hamburg
Head of the Language Technology group
  • statistical, unsupervised and knowledge-free natural language processing
  • leveraging crowdsourcing as a source for linguistic annotations
  • development of cognitive computing applications


Prof. Dr. Olaf Zukunft

Professor at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences for databases and
software-engineering
  • Information systems
  • nosql
  • big data


Prof. Dr. Christian Stöcker

Hamburg University of Applied Sciences


Dr. Gregor Wiedemann

University of Hamburg
PostDoc at the Language Technology group


Marlo Häring

University of Hamburg
Research accociate of the Applied Software Technology group
  • quality of user generated content in online journalism
  • applied machine learning techniques



Jakob Andersen

Hamburg University of Applied Sciences
Research accociate



Volodymyr Biryuk

University of Hamburg
Research accociate of the Applied Software Technology group



Philipp Kessling

Hamburg University of Applied Sciences
Research accociate


Lisa Merten

Hans-Bredow-Institute for Media Research
  • media reception and effects
  • practices of media use and digital communication


Dr. Cornelius Puschmann

Hans-Bredow-Institute for Media Research, Humboldt Institute for Internet & Society
  • interpersonal communication in digital platforms (particularly hate speech)
  • the role of algorithms for selection media content
  • methodological, ethical, and espistemological aspects of computational social science


Julius Reimer

Hans-Bredow-Institute for Media Research
  • participation and transparency in journalism
  • branding for journalists


Lies van Roessel

Hans-Bredow-Institute for Media Research
  • business models in the games industry
  • typologies of algorithms and user development in the application of feedback mechanisms


Timo Johann

University of Hamburg
Research accociate of the Applied Software Technology group
  • user involvement
  • crowdsourcing requirements engineering
  • social aspects of software
  • social software engineering

Alumni

Name Affiliation Area(s) of Interest


Zijad Kurtanovic

University of Hamburg
Research accociate of the Applied Software Technology group
  • data-driven decision support
  • applied machine learning
  • recommender systems
  • empirical software engineering


Mansoure Zeaei

University of Hamburg
Student assistant of the Applied Software Technology group
  • visualizing stances of user comments