Dr. Sebastian Block
Dr. Sebastian Block
Research Associate in the Booster Research Unit SCEPTIC – “Social, Computational, and Ethical Premises of Trust and Informational Cohesion”, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg
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 Working Group Sociology of Social Inequalities, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg
10/2024 – 03/2026 Postdoc at the Chair of Computational Social Science (Prof. Dr. Carsten Schwemmer) at the Institute of Sociology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
10/2022 – 09/2024 Research Associate at the Chair of Quantitative Methods (Prof. Dr. Dominic Nyhuis) at the Institute of Political Science, Leibniz Universität Hannover
01/2020 – 09/2022 Research Associate in the DFG-Project “Representation and inequality in local politics“, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Education
03/2021 – 05/2024 Ph.D., Geschwister-Scholl-Institut, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München; 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, Universität Osnabrück (Grade: 1,0 with honors)
10/2013 – 03/2017
Bachelor of Arts, Communication Science and Political Science, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz (Grade 1,8)