Updates

Jan, 2026
📺 Our paper on Just Another Hour on TikTok was published in Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media. Covered by a piece in The Economist.

Dec, 2025
🏆 I received the Dissertation Award of the Freunde der TUM e.V. of the Technical University of Munich for my dissertation on NLP for Violence Studies.

Dec, 2025
🗣️ I presented ongoing work on hostility against scientists at the 2025 MIT Polarization Workshop.

Nov, 2025
⚖️ It was a privilege to visit the Human Rights Center at UC Berkeley School of Law to discuss practical questions related to my work on online hate speech.

Nov, 2025
🧑‍🏫 Taught a workshop on Named Entity Recognition for beginners at Northwestern University. Find the materials here.

Oct, 2025
🎯 I’ll be attending the second part of the GSO Acacemic Leadership Academy in Heidelberg. Looking forward to reconnecting with everyone!

Aug 1, 2025
🎡 I presented my new paper on Detecting Child Objectification on Social Media at WOAH @ ACL 2025 in Vienna.

Jul 17, 2025
📄 New commentary published in the Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review on the need to establish a research agenda that links science misinformation and socioeconomic marginalization in the age of AI.

June-July, 2025
🌎 I spent a great summer traveling Europe for conferences to present a tutorial on AI and misinformation (@ ICWSM and IC2S2).

April 24, 2025
📄 New preprint on what the overall extent of data on TikTok looks like. Huge dataset of Just Another Hour on TikTok.

Dec 11, 2024
📄 Abstract accepted at the ECPR Workshop on Text-as-Data Analysis in Political Science with lead author Sophie Brandt.

Nov 14, 2024
🌴 I presented my recent paper on The Language of Trauma at EMNLP 2024 in Miami. Thanks to all of you who stopped by to discuss!

Nov 1, 2024
👩‍🎓 I started my new position as a postdoc at Northwestern University’s LINK Lab. Looking forward to working with Ágnes Horvát and her amazing team!

Oct 21, 2024
🎉 I DEFENDED MY PHD! #PhDone

Apr 23, 2024
🌎 Part 2/2 of my 2024 research stay series: Thanks to David Jurgens at University of Michigan School of Information’s Blablablab for welcoming me in Ann Arbor to work on automated detection of psychological trauma in text.

Feb 13, 2024
🌎 Arrived at University of Cambridge for part 1/2 of my 2024 research stay series. I’ll be working on LLMs for hate speech detection with Petre Breazu and Napoleon Katsos at the department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics.