15/09/2017 Talk on Robustness of Religious Indices Yesterday, I gave a talk on “Why we should not worry about expert disagreement over religious indices” (joint work with Thomas Plümper) at the Conference “A Secular Age beyond the West: Modes of Secularity in Asia” in Hannover.
12/09/2017 Religious Minorities: Workshop and Panel at GIGA Tomorrow, I will be at the German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA) in Hamburg and part of the workshop “Religious Minorities: Grievances, Discrimination and Conflict” (11.15-16.00h) as well as the panel at the GIGA Forum “Contested Freedom: The Many Faces of Religious Discrimination Across the Globe” (18.00-20.00).
08/09/2017 Talk at ECPR in Oslo Yesterday, I presented new experimental evidence on “Polls, Uncertainty and Perceptions of Uncertainty” (joint work with Lucas Leemann) at the ECPR general conference in Oslo.
25/08/2017 Sage Online Course on Interactive Data Visualization in R! This course introduces you to techniques and tools for presenting data in visually attractive and interactive ways using the R programming language. By the end of the course, you will be familiar with the workflows for producing visualizations and be able to produce a range of visualizations from data. At... View Article
29/07/2017 Data Visualization at Essex Summer School I am currently teaching a full two-week course on “Data Visualization” at the Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis.
05/07/2017 Bayesian Statistics at CCCP I gave short course on Bayesian statistics at the Cologne Center for Comparative Politics. Cool photo and thanks for a fun time!
01/06/2017 Visiting Professorship at the University of Mannheim As of today, I am a Visiting Professor of Quantitative Methods in the Social and Behavioral Sciences in the CDSS at the University of Mannheim.
01/06/2017 Honorable Mention APSA Best Paper Award Our CPS paper “How State Support of Religion Shapes Attitudes Toward Muslim Immigrants” has been awarded an “honorable mention” in the Best Paper Award of the APSA Section on Migration and Citizenship!
17/05/2017 Talk on Religious Diversity and Social Cohesion Today, I will give a talk on the impact of religious diversity on social cohesion at the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz: http://www.studgen.uni-mainz.de/3009.php
23/03/2017 New working paper on SSRN In this working paper we report the result of a list experiment on wartime sexual violence in Sri Lanka (together with S. Kijewski and M. Freitag): https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2937943