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• Freelance Data Scientist & Management Consultant with focus on process optimization, automation and efficiency improvement using algorithms
• Studied demography (M.Sc.) and social sciences (B.A., demography, statistics, economics and sociology) at the University of Rostock, subsidiary subjects: political science and communication & media research
• Guest student: Algorithms, complexity and cryptography, introduction to business administration, basics of marketing
• Continuing education: Business administration (BWL), project management, relational databases/SQL & marketing (certificate course)
• Internship: Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPI), Rostock/Germany
• Work experience, etc.: Analyst, Ramboll Management Consulting, Berlin (political consulting for federal & state ministries and authorities)

• Data analysis and statistical evaluations
• uni-, bi- & multivariate analytical methods
• e.g. linear, logistic & Cox regressions, generalized linear models (GLM), generalized estimating equations (GEE), factor analysis, logit/probit models
• Cross-sectional and panel/longitudinal studies
• Model Calculations
• Study and questionnaire/survey design & programming
• quantitative method orientation (surveys, inventory data, process data etc.)
• SQL/NoSQL databases
• Data Mining
• Big Data
• Web development (including PHP, JavaScript, html, css, json), Typo3 / various CMS
• Algorithms / Machine Learning / Text Mining
• Market research, competition/competition tracking & monitoring
• systematized & automated research and market research, e.g. competition analysis / tracking / monitoring, automated identification of competitors and new competitors, e.g. for merger & acquisition processes
• Social Media Analysis / Monitoring
• preparation of dossiers, studies and presentations
• Database and algorithm-supported research
• Data Visualization, Dashboards & Business Analytics
• advice on demographic issues (population development & prognosis, fertility/birth rate, mortality/mortality/life expectancy, need for care & dementia, migration/integration/refugees)

• STATA 16, Python, R, R/Studio, mySQL, Apache Hadoop, Spark, Tableau, several own tools

• Address data management / data cleansing / duplicate matching / automated check for data up-to-dateness / merging of data / data enrichment / verification of email addresses & URLs / triangulation / automated matching of multiple data sets
• systematic, systematized & automated research and market research, e.g. competition analysis / tracking / monitoring, automated identification of competitors, new competitors, e.g. for mergers & acquisitions (M&A) processes
• Trend tracking (in news sources/reporting, social media, product/product groups in online shops)
• exploratory data analysis

Bachelor's degree:

• Methods and techniques of empirical social research
• Quantitative and qualitative methods of data analysis
• Introduction to working with SPSS (syntax)
• Multivariate analysis methods

• Demography I: Introduction to Demography
• Demography II: Family demography
• Demography III: Introduction to population dynamics
• Demography IV: Deepening Population Dynamics

• Mathematics & calculus
• Statistics I & II
• Data analysis I & II
• Stochastics

• Fundamentals of economics
• Microeconomics
• Macroeconomics
• Empirical economic research
• Econometrics

• Fundamentals of political science (introduction to political theory and the history of ideas as well as introduction to comparative government)
• Media & Communication Sciences (Communication Sciences- Basics as well as Society and Communication)

• Sociology I: Introduction to basic concepts of sociology
• Sociology II: Introduction to sociological theory
• Sociology III: Social structures and social sub-areas
• Sociology IV: Sociological Theories
• Sociology V: History of sociological theories

• Network research

• Research internship I & II (University of Rostock): Lifestyle, Quality of Life & Health of Young Adults in Germany

Master's degree:

• Demographic and socio-economic data sources (including SOEP, ALLBUS, SHARE, microcensus, EU-SILC, HMD, Pairfam, NHIS)
• Challenges of demographic change
• Recent developments in demographic research

• Regression analysis with STATA (syntax)

• Mortality analysis
• Lifetime analysis / Survival Analysis with R

• Migration and forecasting
• Measurement and demographic analysis of changes in life forms
• Social analysis (diagnoses): socio-economic future scenarios and what became of them

• Demographic Research Internship (MPI): Gender differences in health

• Master-Thesis: Mental well-being in advanced age. A study based on SHARE data (research field epidemiology), URL: http://www.share-project.org/