Alex Fenton
Research Associate
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolAlex Fenton is a quantitative sociologist and research associate based in Berlin with over two decades of expertise in statistical modelling, survey design, geospatial methods and machine learning applied to public policy and social science. He combines rigorous technical analysis with a strong emphasis on question framing—data provenance, missingness, model priors and communication of uncertainty—ensuring results are both methodologically sound and policy-relevant. His academic career spans positions at SHARE, Humboldt University, LSE and Cambridge, with research that has influenced debates on housing, welfare and the production of scientific knowledge. Comfortable with reproducible workflows (R, Emacs, scripting) and interdisciplinary collaboration, he has a track record of translating complex quantitative work into actionable evidence used in public policy. An attention to the sociology of knowledge itself distinguishes his approach: he studies not just outcomes but how statistics and institutions shape what counts as evidence.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
MA (Hons), Social Anthropology, First Class Honours, MA (Hons), Social Anthropology, First Class Honours at The University of EdinburghMSc, Social Research Methods, Distinction, MSc, Social Research Methods, Distinction at University of SurreyDoctor of Philosophy (D Phil), Sociology, Doctor of Philosophy (D Phil), Sociology at Universität Hannover
English, German, French
Github Skills (75)
table-of-contents10
commonmark10
haskell10
markdown10
markup-language10
latex10
markup10
pandoc10
converter10
terrain-generation9
emacs9
bibtex9
elisp9
exporter9
parser9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
emacsorphanage/ox-pandoc
Sep 2021 - Mar 2025
Another org-mode exporter via pandoc.
Contributions:3 PRs, 37 pushes, 9 branches in 3 years 6 months
pandocexporterorg-modeemacsmarkdown
a-fent/anystyle-parser
Oct 2017 - Jan 2020
fast and smart citation reference parsing
Contributions:19 pushes, 13 branches in 2 years 2 months
citationparsingreference-parsingparser
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