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Name Alexander Dalheimer
Label PhD Student
Email alexander.dalheimer@univie.ac.at
Url https://adalheimer.github.io

Work

  • 2022.10 - today
    PhD Candidate
    Department of Government, University of Vienna
    PhD student in the ERC-funded PARTISAN project, led by Markus Wagner. My research examines the causes of affective polarization and avoidance tendencies, drawing on a wide range of data sources and methodological approaches. Within the project, I serve as data officer, responsible for collecting, cleaning, documenting, and archiving our data.
    • Affective polarization
    • Political Behavior
    • Quantitative and computational methods
  • 2020.09 - 2022.09
    Research Assistant
    Center for Comparative Politics, University of Cologne
    Development of web scrapers in R for parliamentary speech and bill archives; processing and structuring of textual data and associated metadata; Compilment of original corpora and custom datasets; assisted in enhancing digital learning and training resources for data analysis with R
    • Computational Social Science
    • Data Science
    • Data Management
  • 2020.02 - 2020.05
    Student Assistant in the Department of Key Account Management
    CM4all
    Conduction of competitor analyses; programming and testing of WordPress websites; Performoming functionality testing of PHP- and Java-based applications
    • Competitor analysis
    • Software Testing
    • Website Programming
  • 2018.06 - 2018.08
    Researcher (intern)
    IPSOS Public Affairs
    Involved in the development, review, revision, and pretesting of questionnaires, as well as interviewer training; conducted descriptive analyses using R and SPSS; prepared descriptive statistics and visualizations for press releases
    • Data Analysis
    • Questionnaire Development
    • Data Visualizations
  • 2018.03 - 2018.05
    Researcher (intern)
    German Advisory Council on the Environment
    Conducted data collection and preparation, including extensive literature research; for a published special report on the legitimation of environmental policy; managed public relations, including the online presence of the council
    • Enivoronmental policy
    • Research-Based Recommendations

Education

  • 2022.10 - today

    Vienna, Austria

    PhD Candidate
    Department of Government, University of Vienna
    Political Science
    • Digital Technology and Politics
    • Image Analysis
    • Analysis of Geo Data
    • Illiberalism and Party System Change
    • Experimental Analysis
    • Experimental Designs
  • 2021.07 - 2021.08

    Liviv, Ukraine

    Data Science Summer School
    Applied Sciences Faculty, Ukrainian Catholic University
    Data Science
  • 2019.10 - 2022.09

    Cologne, Germany

    Master of Arts
    Department of Political Science, University of Cologne
    Political Science
    • Quantitative text analysis
    • causal inference
    • time-series analysis
    • multivariate statistics
    • econometrics
    • process tracing
  • 2017.10 - 2018.02

    Prague, Czech Republic

    Study Abroad (Erasmus+)
    Department of Political Science, Charles University
    Political Science

Certificates

Automated Content Analysis
University of Vienna 2023-07
An Introduction to GIS with R
University of Vienna 2023-06
Python for Data Science
sololearn 2021-10
Intermediate Python
sololearn 2021-10
Python for Beginners Course
sololearn 2021-09
Lviv Data Science Summer School
Ukrainian Catholic University 2021-07
Python
Kaggle 2021-06
Intro to Machine Learning
Kaggle 2021-06
Automated Image and Video Analysis
University of Vienna 2021-04
Python for Data Analysis
LinkedIn 2020-03

Skills

Data Science / Programming
R
Python
Qualtrics
CSS
HTML
LaTeX

Languages

German
Native speaker
English
Fluent

Interests

Academic Interests
Political Behavior
Comparative Politics
Political Psychology
Statistics
Computational methods

Volunteer

  • 2016 - 2017

    Konstanz, Germany

    Board member
    Youth organization of the German Green Party
  • 2016 - today

    Germany

    Member
    German Green Party (Bündnis90/Die Grünen)