Biography

Claudia Wagner is an assistant professor in Computer Science at University Koblenz-Landau and the head of the Data Science team at GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences. Prior to that she worked as a researcher at JOANNEUM RESEARCH in Graz and conducted several international research internships, amongst others at HP labs, Xerox PARC and  the Open University. She was awarded with a DOC-fFORTE fellowship from the Austrian Academy of Science for her PhD which she received from Graz University of Technology.

Her research focuses on computational methods for analysing and modelling social phenomena (such as culture, collective attention,  bias and discrimination) with digital trace data.