People

Head
Secretary
Assistants
External PhDs
Former Assistants
Visiting Researchers
Student Assistants

Head

Jun.-Prof. Dr. Martin Potthast
martin.potthast@uni-leipzig.de
Augustusplatz 10, Room P816
+49 341 97-32382

Interests: Information Retrieval, Natural Language Processing, Artificial Intelligence, Crowdsourcing, Reproducibility
[data] [events] [publications] [research]

Secretary

Petra Gamrath
pgamrath@informatik.uni-leipzig.de
Augustusplatz 10, Room P825
+49 341 97-32230

Assistants

Christopher Akiki
christopher.akiki@uni-leipzig.de
Augustusplatz 10, Room P814
+49 341 97-32349

[publications]

Sebastian Bischoff
sebastian.bischoff@uni-leipzig.de

Interests: Machine Learning, Authorship
[publications]

Dr. Giuseppe G. A. Celano
celano@informatik.uni-leipzig.de
Augustusplatz 10, Room P906
+49 341 97-32223

Niklas Deckers
niklas.deckers@uni-leipzig.de
Augustusplatz 10, Room P819
+49 341 97-32214

Interests: Deep Learning for NLP and Computer Vision, Embeddings and Representations
[publications]

Theresa Elstner
theresa.elstner@uni-leipzig.de
Augustusplatz 10, Room P814
+49 341 97-32349

[publications]

Lukas Gienapp
lukas.gienapp@uni-leipzig.de
Augustusplatz 10, Room P819
+49 341 97-32233

[events] [publications]

Dr. Christian Kahmann
christian.kahmann@uni-leipzig.de
Augustusplatz 10, Room P818
+49 341 97-32282

Interests: Natural Language Processing, Text Mining, Computational Social Science, Context Change

Wolfgang Kircheis
wolfgang.kircheis@uni-leipzig.de
Augustusplatz 10, Room P905
+49 341 97-32223

Interests: Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics

Dr. Harrisen Scells
harry.scells@uni-leipzig.de
Augustusplatz 10, Room P814

Interests: Information Retrieval
[website] [publications]

Sebastian Schmidt
s.schmidt@uni-leipzig.de
Augustusplatz 10, Room P814

Interests: Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Disinformation
[publications]

Christopher Schröder
christopher.schroeder@uni-leipzig.de
Augustusplatz 10, Room P818

Interests: Active Learning, Text Classification, Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning
[publications]

Shahbaz Syed
shahbaz.syed@uni-leipzig.de
Augustusplatz 10, Room P905
+49 341 97-32223

Interests: Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing
[data] [events] [publications] [research]

External PhDs

Matti Wiegmann
Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
matti.wiegmann@uni-weimar.de

Interests: Social Media Analysis, Authorship, Natural Language Processing
[events] [publications] [research]

Former Assistants

Assistant Prof. Dr. Khalid Al-Khatib [2020-2021]
University of Groningen
khalid.alkhatib@rug.nl

Interests: Natural Language Processing, Information Retrieval, Computational Social Science
[chair] [data] [events] [publications] [research]

Kim Bürgl [2021-2023]

Dr. Thomas Efer [2021-2022]
Leipzig University
efer@informatik.uni-leipzig.de

Interests: Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Processing, Digital Humanities

Dr. Stefan Heindorf [2014-2019]
Paderborn University
heindorf@uni-paderborn.de

Interests: Knowledge Bases, Crowdsourcing, Vandalism Detection
[events] [publications]

Dr. Ing. Andreas Niekler [2018-2021]
Leipzig University
andreas.niekler@uni-leipzig.de

Interests: Scientific Transfer, Computational Social Science, Text Classification, Digital Humanities, Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning
[publications]