DSSGx Munich 2024
Organizing 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.

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). 

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.

Julia has an academic background in social sciences and brings in a decade of experience in consulting and project management at the intersection of strategy, business, and IT. She likes to work in agile, fast-paced environments and has a strong emphasis on stakeholder engagement and diverse perspectives. In 2022, Julia enrolled in an International Master’s program in the field of IT and Learning at the University of Gothenburg and started collaborating with a digital health startup. As DSSG Project Manager she will be responsible for the project management in the fellow projects.

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.

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 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.