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Dr Mike Farjam

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Senior Research Associate (Post-Doc)

Address

University of Hamburg
Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences
Social Sciences
Journalism and Mass Communication
Von-Melle-Park 5
20146 Hamburg

Office

Room: 2103

Office hours

Office hours - Wednesdays 8:00 - 9:00 hrs,
Please make an appointment per e-mail at least by 3 pm the day before. Consultation hours will take place via Zoom until further notice.

Contact

Tel: +49 40 42838-5981

Portrait

With a background in Artificial Intelligence and Psychology and a PhD in Economics, Mike Farjam is conducting multi-disciplinary research on environmental and political behavior. He is applying state-of-the-art machine learning, statistical, and experimental methods, often in a mixed-methods framework.

He received his PhD in Economics in 2016 as a fellow of the Max Planck Research School on Adapting Behavior in a Fundamentally Uncertain World. Before joining the University of Hamburg in 2024, he taught more than 10 courses in statistics, text analysis, and research methodology at Lund and Linnaeus University (Sweden).

Curriculum Vitae

Location

Timeframe - Education and  Position

Universität
Hamburg

01.2024 - Senior Research Associate (Postdoc)
Teaching and research at the chair of Communication Studies, Climate and Science Communication
Lund University,
Sweden		 02.2021-12.2023 - Senior Researcher
Research and coordination within the Horizon2020 project PROTECT.
Topic: Computational analysis of the migration discourse on social media.

Linnaeus University,
Växjö, Sweden

08.2018-02.2021 - Senior Lecturer
08.2016-07.2018 - PostDoc
Department of Computer Science and Media Technology (from 06.2020) 
Sweden Department of Social Studies (until 05.2020)
Friedrich Schiller University, Jena 2013-2016 Dr rer. pol. - Economics (summa cum laude)

Scholarship of the International Max Planck Research School (Uncertainty School). 
Thesis: ’Games against the machine: Interacting with artificial economic agents’.

Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands

2008-2013 - B.Sc. & M.Sc. – Artificial Intelligence
Focus on Machine Learning and Agent-based Modelling.
For the master thesis: Erasmus exchange at the University of Trento.

2007-2011 - B.Sc. – Psychology (Cognitive psychology)

Publications

Teaching during the current semester

Due to his work on a project position, Dr. Farjam is not currently teaching.

Teaching during summer semester 2024

Teaching (previous terms)

Teaching during summer semester 2024