Simon Roth


University Konstanz, Germany
Room E 220
+49 7531-88-4127
Github systats



Education
since 2018
PhD Student at the Graduate School of Decision Sciences (GSDS) and member of the Center for Data and Methods (CDM), University of Konstanz. Supervisor: Susumu Shikano
Major Information Processing and Statistical Analysis
Minor Political Decisions and Institutions
2015 - 2018
Master’s Degree in Empirical Research in Social Sciences at Stuttgart University. Supervisior: André Bächtiger
Thesis The Good, the Bad, the Ugly: The strategic use of sentiment in parliamentary speeches.
2012 - 2015
Bachelor’s Degree in Social Sciences at Stuttgart University
1999 - 2012
Abitur at Freie Waldorfschule Vaihingen/Enz.



Jobs & Academia
since 2017
Data Scientist at Paraboost GmBH
2015 - 2017
Research assistant within several NCCR projects on democratic preferences and political attitudes measured with experimental survey designs (Supervision André Bächtiger).
2015 - 2016
Teaching assistant for the lecture International Relations and European Integration
Sep - Nov 2014
Internship at Leibniz-Institut for Social Sciences (GESIS Mannheim): Department for Survey Design and Methodology.



Workshops & Conferences
Aug 2018
VOX-Pol Conference Amsterdam with a presentation: Decoding the Alt-Right
May 2018
Combating Online Extremism, VOX-Pol Network of Excellence, VOX-Pol Workshop at University of Oxford.
Jun 2018
Challenges of Terrorism Informatics, VOX-Pol Network of Excellence, VOX-Pol Workshop at Dublin City University.
Jun 2017
Participation at UseR! 2017 in Brussels.
Aug 2016
ECPR Method Summer School, Budapest. Workshop on Bayesian Statistics.



Technical Skills
Back-End
everyday R, sometimes Python & Unix
ML
Keras, H2O, SpaCy
Front-End
Shiny Apps and Semantic UI
Reports

Markdown, Rmarkdown, \(\LaTeX\)




Last Update: 2019-01-24