DSSGx Munich 2023
Organizing Team

DSSGx Munich 2023 was organized by the Social Data Science and AI Lab (SODA, Prof. Frauke Kreuter) and the Chair of Statistical Learning and Data Science (Prof. Bernd Bischl) at the Institute of Statistics, LMU Munich. Meet the team here!

Program Management Team

Jacob Beck

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.


Jack collins

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.

Susanne Dandl

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

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.

Jan Simson

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

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

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). 

Christoph Kern

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.

Juliane Lauks

Juliane Lauks is the Scientific Manager for Statistical Learning & Data Science at the Department of Statistics, LMU Munich. At DSSGx Munich 2023, she coordinates our partnership with the Munich Center for Machine Learning (MCML).

Max Lang

Max Lang is a student & teaching assistant at both scientific chairs contributing to DSSGx Munich at the Department of Statistics, LMU Munich. At DSSGx Munich 2023, he plans special activities for the fellows, including our annual Berlin trip.

Professorships

Frauke Kreuter

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.

Bernd Bischl

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.