Dr Sebastian Block
Dr Sebastian Block
Research Associate in the Booster Research Unit SCEPTIC - "Social, Computational, and Ethical Premises of Trust and Informational Cohesion"
Research Interests:
- Computational Social Science
- AI & Society
- Social and digital change
- Digital Data
- Machine Learning
- NLP
- Quantitative methods and data science
Academic positions
since 4/2026 Postdoc in the Booster Research Unit SCEPTIC and member of the research group Sociology of Social Inequalities, University of Oldenburg
10/2024 - 03/2026 Postdoc at the Chair of Computational Social Science of Prof Dr Carsten Schwemmer at the Institute of Sociology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
10/2022 - 09/2024 Research assistant at the Chair of Quantitative Methods of Prof Dr Dominic Nyhuis at the Institute of Political Science, Leibniz University Hannover
01/2020 - 09/2022 Research assistant in the DFG project "Representation and Inequality in Local Politics", Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
Education
03/2021 - 05/2024 PhD, Geschwister-Scholl-Institute, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich; Dissertation: "Computational Science Methods In Social Science Research" (Grade: Summa cum laude); Supervisors: PD Dr Martin Gross (LMU) & Prof. Dr Carsten Schwemmer (LMU)
04/2018 - 12/2019
Master of Arts, Democratic Governance and Civil Society, University of Osnabrück (grade 1.0 with honours)
10/2013 - 03/2017
Bachelor of Arts, Journalism and Political Science, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (grade 1.8)