Achim Edelmann

Achim  Edelmann is an Assistant Professor in Computational Social Science. He  holds a PhD in sociology from the University of Cambridge. Before  joining the médialab, he habilitated in sociology at the University of  Bern, was a visiting scholar at the University of California at Berkeley  and a Postdoctoral Trainee at the Duke Network Analysis Center. 
Achim  specializes in the sociology of culture, social networks, and  computational methods. His work focuses on the structure-culture link in  sociology and on the co-evolution of scientific ideas and public  debates. This includes projects on the interaction between cultural  meanings and social networks, scientists' public support of risky  science, the semantic and narrative meanings in interviews, and the  spread of misinformation across private messaging services. In his work,  he increasingly collects and analyzes new forms of large-scale data  using relational databases and cloud computing.