Work Experience
I am a PostDoc at RPTU (Landau) and a former PhD student in the Computational Social Science department at GESIS - Leibniz-Institute for the Social Sciences in Cologne (Germany).
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Education
I obtained a doctoral degree (Dr. Ing.) from the Christian-Albrecht University of Kiel in 2024 and an M.Sc. degree in Web Science from the University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany, in 2016.
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Research
I am interested in the following topics of Computational Social Science and Data Mining: usage of AI in Social Science studies, altmetrics, and gender bias. My passion is to get involved with state-of-the-art technologies that allow me to discover and analyse meaningful information, patterns and trends in online social media.
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Work Experience

PostDoc, Researcher

    11/2023– current

Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU), Landau (Germany)
Department of Psychology, Institute for Communication Psychology and Media Education

  • SCOPE-Project
  • Empirical analysis of social behaviour in online communities
  • Development of methods in Computational Social Science

Supervision by Prof. Dr. Michaela Maier

PhD student, Researcher

    01/2017– 01/2024

GESIS – Leibniz-Institute for the Social Sciences, Cologne (Germany)
Department of Computational Social Science, Social Analytics and Services team

  • DFG Project “*metics” (2017-2019)
  • Social ComQuant Project (since 02.2023)
  • Empirical analysis of social behaviour in online communities
  • Development and maintenance of data mining and social media monitoring tools, WikiWho and Social Media Monitor
  • Conduction of training courses and workshops in Computational Social Science

Supervision by Prof. Dr. Isabella Peters, Dr. Katrin Weller, Prof. Dr. Claudia Wagner

Research Assistant, Tutor

    12/2016– 03/2017

University of Koblenz- Landau, Koblenz (Germany)
WeST - Institute for Web Science and Technologies

Conduction of Tutorials and Assignments for Introduction to Web Science Course

Supervision by Prof. Dr. Steffen Staab

Research Assistant

    03/2015– 09/2016

GESIS – Leibniz-Institute for the Social Sciences, Cologne (Germany)
Department of Computational Social Science, Data Science team

Projects:
▪ Mining Cultural Relations on Wikipedia
▪ Study of Gender Bias Related to Professions on Wikipedia

Supervision by Prof. Dr. Claudia Wagner and Prof. Dr. Markus Strohmaier

Design Engineer of the IT department

    12/2010–10/2013

JSC Research and Design Institute for Atomic and Power Pump building (VNIIAEN), Sumy (Ukraine)

▪ Development of a document management system
▪ Implementation, maintenance and support of the company's PDM-systems
▪ Development of modules in the engineering domain (SolidWorks, AutoCAD, et al.)

Teaching Assistant, Tutor

    12/2011–03/2012

Sumy State University, Sumy (Ukraine)

Course: IT project management

Student Assistant

    09/2006–12/2013

Sumy State University, Sumy (Ukraine)

Interviewing (sociological surveys) for different companies such as KMIS, SOCIS, Center named after Razumkov, Inter TV channel, TNS, etc.

Supervision by Dr. Ivanova T.V.

Education and Training

PhD (Dr. Ing) in Computer Science

    01/2020– 04/2024

Christian-Albrecht University of Kiel, Kiel (Germany)
Dissertation Thesis:  Understanding the Anatomy of Second-Generation Altmetrics 

M.Sc Web Science (Web and Data Science)

    04/2014– 11/2016

University of Koblenz-Landau, Koblenz (Germany)

▪ Data Science, Network Theory and Dynamic Systems
▪ Web Retrieval, Machine Learning and Data Mining
▪ Semantic Web, Computational Social Science
Master Thesis: Measuring Gender Inequalities of German Professions on Wikipedia 

M.Sc. Information Technology of Design

    09/2010–07/2011

Sumy State University, Sumy (Ukraine)

▪ Projecting of Computer-aided Design Systems,
▪ Information Support of Technical Objects Life Cycle.
Master Thesis: Decision making methods for the implementation of requirements and changes in organization design and technological preparation of production projects for Atomic Pumpbuilding

Bachelor of Computer Science

    09/2006–06/2010

Sumy State University, Sumy (Ukraine)

▪ Engineering and Computer Graphics,
▪ System Analyses and Information Systems Design,
▪ OOP, Programming and Algorithmic Languages.

Honours and awards
  • Best Project award at LWM Hackathon in Kaiserslautern, Germany, 2024
  • Best project award at WSTNet Web Science Summer School in Koblenz, Germany, July 2016
  • DAAD Scholarship for studying in Germany, 2015-2016
  • STIBET Scholarship for activities in the international context at the University of Koblenz-Landau, 2015
  • STIBET Scholarship for highly qualified students, 2014-2015
  • DAAD Scholarship for short term stay, Summer 2013
  • Best Presentation Award at Student Conference "Project management in the conditions of transitive economy", Odessa, Ukraine, 2012.
  • Award for the excellence in study "The best student of Electronics and Information Technologies Department 2011", Sumy State University, 2011.
  • First prize in the student competition "CAD and computer modeling in mechanical engineering", Sumy State University, 2009.
  • Winner of the regional school competitions in physics and mathematics, Sumy, 2003-2005.