Alexandra Rottenkolber

Hello and welcome to my website!

I’m a trained Social Data Scientist (@Oxford) and have a background in Public Policy (@Berlin), Physics (@Heidelberg) and Geography (@Heidelberg), too. Currently, I am doing my PhD studies in Computational Social Sciences/Analytical Sociology at the Institute for Analytical Sociology, Linköping University, Sweden.

My past projects have combined different methods, such as natural language processing, social network analysis, and agent-based modelling, to study policy making in the German parliament, how nations digitize over time, and how gender shapes online interaction. In my dissertation, I focus on the emergence and reproduction of occupational gender segregation — using the amazing Swedish full-population register data and computational methods to get at the mechanisms that occupational sorting in the labour market. Furthermore, I have a project on scholary mobility and how a scholar’s personal and institutional embedding ultimatly sturctures their opportunity space.

I am supervised by Károly Takács and Martin Arvidsson.

When I’m not coding, reading or writing, you can find me hiking on Sweden’s lakeshore trails or growing plants. Feel free to download my CV or get in touch with me at alexandra.rottenkolber@liu.se.

Would be happy to read from you!