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

Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science

Aalto University

Prof. Steffi Hußlein

Professor Interaction Design

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

+49 170 4816986

Prof. Dr. Marc Erich Latoschik

Professor for Human-Computer Interaction

University of Würzburg

+49 (0) 931 31 85871

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: