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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

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)

Master's degree:

Demographic and socio-economic data sources
Challenges of demographic change
Recent developments in demographic research

Regression analysis

Mortality analysis
Lifetime analysis / Survival Analysis

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)

Mental well-being in advanced age. A study based on SHARE data (research field epidemiology)