Andreas Küpfer
Visiting Researcher at Technische Universität Darmstadt
Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany
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Top SchoolAndreas Küpfer is a computational social scientist and visiting researcher who blends machine learning and traditional political science methods to study multimodal political communication, party competition, and political behavior. With a PhD in Political Science and an M.Sc. in Data Science from the University of Mannheim, he has published in leading journals like Political Analysis and European Journal of Political Research and repeatedly combined academic research with practical data engineering. He currently splits his time between research roles at Technische Universität Darmstadt and the Centre for AI in Government (University of Birmingham), while freelancing on scalable data pipelines for applied clients. His background ranges from ABAP development and analytics at SAP to organizing the Social Science Data Lab, reflecting an unusual mix of production-grade engineering and methodological innovation.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Semester Abroad, Information Technology, Semester Abroad, Information Technology at Metropolia University of Applied SciencesAusbildung, Fachinformatiker - Anwendungsentwicklung, Ausbildung, Fachinformatiker - Anwendungsentwicklung at KUMAVISION AGPh.D., Political Science, Ph.D., Political Science at University of MannheimBachelor of Science, Business Informatics, Bachelor of Science, Business Informatics at Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences
Github Skills (8)
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tbd7
grammar6
dm5
data-visualisation5
data-visualization4
geotools3
toolbox2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
andreaskuepfer/andreaskuepfer.github.io
Jun 2022 - Mar 2025
Contributions:248 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 8 months
hiluka/how-to-hyperopt
Feb 2022 - Sep 2022
Contributions:5 commits, 39 pushes in 6 months
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