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Julian Gierenz
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E-Mail: julian.gierenz(at)uni-bamberg.de
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Pillar 4: Governance, Institutional Change and Political Behaviour
Field: Political Science
Research Interests: Political Communication, Political Psychology, Political Sociology, Social Media, Computational Social Science, Large Language Models, Artificial Intelligence, Agent-Based-Simulations, Social Network Analysis, Computational Cognitive Science
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// DISSERTATION PROJECT
Exploring the Evolution of Online Political Discourse through LLM-Integrated Agent-Based Models
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// ACADEMIC BACKGROUND
Since 2024
Doctoral researcher, Bamberg Graduate School of Social Sciences, University of Bamberg
2020 – 2023
Master of Arts in Political Science with focus in Computational Social Science
2016 – 2020
Bachelor of Arts in Staatswissenschaften two main subjects Social Science and Economics, University of Erfurt
Awards / Academic Achievements and Scholarships:
2024 – 2025
Starter Scholarship, Bamberg Graduate School of Social Sciences
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// RESEARCH AND PUBLICATIONS
Schwendner, C., Kremer, V., Gierenz, J., Sevim, H., Siebenlist, J. M., & Güclü, D. (2024). ?Chasing the Black Swan in cryptocurrency markets by modeling cascading dynamics in communication networks”. In Gloor, P. A., Grippa, F., Fronzetti Colladon, A., & Przegalinska, A. (Eds.). (2024) Handbook of Social Computing, Edward Elgar Publishing. (pp. 48-73).
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// CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS
10th International Conference on Collaborative Innovation Networks, Social Computing for Sustainability, Presentation: “AI and Collaboration: Chasing the Black Swan in Cryptocurrency Markets by Modeling Cascading Dynamics in Communication Networks”, Kraków, Poland, September 11-12, 2022
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// EXPERIENCE
Since 2024
Student research assistant at the chair of Political Science, especially Digital Transformation, University of Bamberg
2022 – 2023
Student research assistant at the chair of Information Systems and Social Networks, University of Bamberg
2021 – 2022
Student research assistant in the research projects “Refugees in the German Educational System (ReGES)” and “Educational Trajectories of Refugee Children and Adolescents”, Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories
2020
Internship at the State Office for Statistics Thuringia
2019 – 2020
Student research assistant at the chair of Political Theory, University of Erfurt
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