About Us

We are an international network of researchers working on media bias and related research areas. We are always open to new partners or students joining us for a thesis project or Ph.D. in collaboration with any university or chair. You can read more about getting to know us or joining our mission here.

Dr. Timo Spinde

Coordinator of the network

University of Göttingen


Smi Hinterreiter

Ph.D. candidate

University of Würzburg


Martin Wessel

Ph.D. candidate

TUM Munich


Tomáš Horych

NLP Engineer

University of Göttingen


Christoph Mandl

NLP Engineer

University of Göttingen


Fei Wu

Scientific Assistant

University of Stuttgart


Professors, Departments & Postdocs


Prof. Dr. Bela Gipp

Scientific Information Analytics

University of Göttingen


Prof. Dr. Michael Granitzer

Data Science

University of Passau

+498515093306


Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Gaissmaier

Social Psychology and Decision Sciences

University of Konstanz

+49 7531 88-3024


Prof. Dr. Akiko Aizawa

Digital Content and Media Sciences Research Division Professor / Deputy Director General

National Institute of Informatics Tokyo


Prof. Dr. Karsten Donnay

Political Behavior and Digital Media

University of Zurich

+41 44 634 58 57


Prof. Dr. Isao Echizen

Information and Society Research Division

National Institute of Informatics Tokyo


Prof. Dr. Jelena Mitrovic

Computational Rhetoric and NLP / Leader of the BMBF funded CAROLL Research Group

University of Passau

+49 851 509 3955


Prof. Dr. Marcel Garz

Associate Professor of Economics

Jönköping International Business School

+46 (0)36 10 17 82


Prof. Dr. Juhi Kulshrestha

Prof. Steffi Hußlein

Professor Interaction Design

University of Applied Sciences Magdeburg-Stendal (Institute Industrial Design)

+49 170 4816986


Prof. Dr. Marc Erich Latoschik

Prof. Dr. Philipp Schaer

Director of the Institute of Information Management (IIM)

Cologne University of Applied Sciences

+49 221-8275-3845


Prof. Dr. Oliver Niebuhr

Associate Professor of Communication and Innovation, Centre for Industrial Electronics (CIE)

Süddänische Universität (SDU), Sønderborg, Dänemark


Dr. Terry Ruas

Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Göttingen

University of Göttingen


Dr. André Greiner-Petter

Postdoctoral Researcher

University of Göttingen and National Institute of Informatics Tokyo


Dr. Helge Giese

Postdoc, Social Psychology and Decision Sciences

University of Konstanz

+49 7531 88-3487


Anastasia Zhukova

Scientific Information Analytics

University of Göttingen


Fabian Haak

Ph.D. candidate at TH Köln, Information Retrieval Research Group

TH Köln - University of Applied Sciences


Dr. Felix Hamborg

Machine Learning

University of Berlin

+49 (0)7531 88 4805


Active students


Stefan Liemawan Adji

KU Leuven


Aurora Sartoretto

University of Göttingen


Linus Krause

University of Konstanz


Diana Sharafeeva

University of Konstanz


Julian Dockendorf

University of Würzburg


Frederik Rüb

University of Würzburg


Tim Berninghaus

TU Dortmund


Martin Spirit

Charles University


Past students


Magdalena Haupt

University of Konstanz


Christin Jeggle

University of Konstanz


Lada Rudnitckaia

University of Konstanz


Kanishka Sinha

University of Passau


Jakob Speier

University of Konstanz


Daniel Färber

University of Konstanz


Jonas Ehrhardt

University of Amsterdam


Manuel Plank

University of Konstanz


Shiva Madilla

University of Passau


Jack Krueger

University of Konstanz


Christina Kreuter

University of Konstanz


Apurva Jagdale

University of Passau


Przemyslaw Joniak

National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo


Tilman Hornung

University of Konstanz


David Krieger

University of Konstanz


Kathrin Holzinger

University of Passau


Oumaima Chedly

University of Passau


Elisabeth Richter

University of Konstanz


Zeynep Fert

University of Tilburg


Jerome Würf

University of Leipzig


Anna Bahß

University of Konstanz


Jerome Wassmuth

University of Konstanz


Bao Long Vu

University of Passau


Sultan Us Zamman

University of Passau


Ann-Christin Gah

Technical University of Munich, CDTM


Ahmed Altour

University of Passau


The group 2023 on the yearly hut in the alps:

The group 2022 working together in Tokyo:

The group during a weekend on the hut 2021: