Dr Kamilla Kopec-Harding is a Senior Research Data Scientist at IIDSAI supporting the Centre. Her expertise is in statistical analysis and software engineering in R, Python, and Javascript.
Affiliates
Professor Amrita Narlikar is the President of the German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA) and Professor of International Relations at Hamburg University. Her research focuses on international negotiations, economic statecraft, international trade, WTO, and multilateralism.
Mark Hallerberg is Professor of Public Management and Political Economy at the Hertie School of Governance. His research focuses on fiscal governance, tax competition, financial crises, and European Union politics.
Dr Hannah Béchara is an NLP postdoctoral researcher at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin. Her main research interests are in causal language understanding and multilingual reasoning. Hannah is working on the CATALYSE project to build a public health digital surveillance system for health effects of environmental hazards.
Dr Olga Gasparyan is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science at Florida State University. Her research lies in the fields of comparative political economy, public policy, and visual studies, and is conducted with an application of causal inference and machine learning and deep learning models. Olga is a contributor to The Lancet Countdown and The Lancet Countdown in Europe research.
Paulina Garcia Corral is a PhD candidate at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin, and a research associate on the CATALYSE project. She studies the properties of large language models (LLMs) to characterise credit and blame attribution in political communication and leadership rhetoric. Paulina holds MSc in Social Research Methods from the London School of Economics and BA in Sociology from Universidad de Monterrey.
Greta Gross is a PhD candidate at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin and the SCRIPTS Cluster of Excellence. She has a background in psychology. Greta’s research interests concern the interplay between psychology, politics and economics, such as in the political psychology of crises (e.g. the COVID-19 pandemic) and more broadly political communication, leadership and public trust.
Krishnamoorthy Manohara is a research associate on the CATALYSE project. He is working on language models for public health digital surveillance systems for health effects of environmental hazards. Krishnamoorty is also assessing how such systems can be used in decision making and public policy. He holds MSc in Data Science for Public Policy from the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin and B.Tech in Computer Science Engineering from PES University, Bangalore.
Alexander Baturo is an Associate Professor of Government at Dublin City University, Ireland. He studies comparative politics and international organisations, and relies on text as data approach to examine the behaviour of authoritarian actors in multilateral organisations, particularly in the United Nations, as well as in domestic legitimation and policymaking.
Alumni
Aswin Jose Roy is a research associate on the CATALYSE project and provides data science engineering support. Aswin holds Master’s in International Affairs from the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin and B.Tech. in Computer Science from Cochin University of Science and Technology.
Charlotte Cobb is a research assistant in the Centre. She holds a BA in History and Politics from the University of Birmingham. Charlotte is currently completing MSc in Computer Science at the University of Birmingham.
