Carsten is a postdoctoral research associate at CITP (2019-2020). He holds a bachelor and master degree in sociology and received his Ph.D. from the University of Bamberg in Germany. He also was previously a research associate at the University of Bamberg. His dissertation focused on the application of computational methods for the study of ethnic minorities. Carsten is also interested in social media communication, algorithmic bias, natural language and image processing, data mining and software development. He co-organized a partner site for the Summer Institute in Computational Social Science and gave courses on methods of political sociology and computational social science at University of Bamberg, University of Constance and Humboldt University of Berlin.

Carsten can be reached at , 316 Sherrerd Hall.