Team

Jacob Beck holds a bachelor’s and master’s degree in Sociology and is a PhD Student at LMU Munich.

He interned at the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) in Nuremberg and participated at the “Data Science for Social Good” fellowship. For DSSGx he is in charge of the overall organisation and project management.

Bernd Bischl holds the chair of Statistical Learning and Data Science at the Department of Statistics at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich and is a co-director of the Munich Center for Machine Learning (MCML), one of Germany’s national competence centers for ML. Together with Frauke Kreuter he is the host of the DSSGx Munich Fellowship.

John ‘Jack’ Collins is a PhD Student in Sociology at the Graduate School of Economic and Social Sciences, University of Mannheim. Before starting PhD, Jack was a Senior IT Consultant specialising in data engineering, analytics and software development.

Julia is a Freelance AI Consultant offering services throughout the data project lifecycle. Inspired by her research interest in hybrid intelligence, Julia is passionate about injecting humane domain expertise when working on data solutions. In her spare time, Julia is a Lead Team Member at the non-profit organization Data Science for Social Good Berlin, where she evaluates, defines, and manages AI use cases.

For DSSGx Munich 2024, she is the Technical Mentor responsible for guiding the solution design, supporting the fellows in developing their solutions, and providing technical feedback.

Susanne Dandl is a researcher at the Department of Statistics, LMU Munich. She co-organized DSSGx UK in collaboration with Warwick University 2021. For DSSGx Munich 2023, she is responsible for everything related to the fellows, from the application process, communication to the kick-off event.

Unai Fischer Abaigar is a PhD student at the Department of Statistics, LMU Munich. For DSSGx Munich 2023, he is responsible for project scoping and the overall organisation.

Christoph Kern is Junior Professor of Social Data Science and Statistical Learning at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich and Project Director at the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES). For DSSGx Munich he is in charge of the lecture series for our fellows.

Professor Frauke Kreuter holds the Chair of Statistics and Data Science at LMU Munich, Germany and at the University of Maryland, USA, she is Co-director of the Social Data Science Center (SoDa) and faculty member in the Joint Program in Survey Methodology (JPSM). Together with Bernd Bischl she is the host of the DSSGx Munich Fellowship.

Jan Simson is a PhD student at the Department of Statistics, LMU Munich. For DSSGx Munich 2023, he is responsible for project scoping and management.

Wiebke Weber is Scientific Manager at the Chair for Statistics and Data Science in Social Sciences and the Humanities (SoDa) at LMU Munich and Research Fellow at the  Research and Expertise Centre for Survey Methodology (RECSM) of Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain.

Clara Strasser Ceballos is a PhD Student at the Chair for Statistics and Data Science in Social Sciences and the Humanities (SoDa) at LMU Munich. She holds a Master's degree in Statistics and a Bachelor's degree in Economics from the University of Munich (LMU).