Friedolin Merhout
Associate Professor
Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark
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Top SchoolFriedolin Merhout is an Associate Professor of Sociology and Social Data Science at the University of Copenhagen with a decade of experience applying computational and experimental methods to questions of intergroup relations, polarization, and radicalization. Trained at Freie Universität Berlin and Duke University (PhD), he combines digital trace, text, survey, and administrative data—recently linking Google search, census, and military registers—to uncover how discrimination shapes radicalization and political behavior. He leads the Knowledge, Organization, and Politics research group and helped build the MSc in Social Data Science program, reflecting a blend of research leadership and curriculum design. Known for large-scale field experiments and multi-team projects, he also investigates methodological uncertainty and variability in social science, bringing rigorous computational workflows to substantive political-sociological problems. Based in Copenhagen and affiliated with SODAS, he pairs theoretical sociological insight with hands-on data engineering to translate complex datasets into policy-relevant findings.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Sociology, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Sociology at Duke UniversityBachelor of Arts - BA, North American Studies (Specialization: Sociology), Bachelor of Arts - BA, North American Studies (Specialization: Sociology) at Freie Universität Berlin
Github Skills (50)
python10
computational-social-science10
science10
r-package9
text-mining9
topic-modeling8
latent-dirichlet-allocation8
tidyverse7
stata7
chat6
natural-language-processing6
hugo-theme6
sas6
signal6
swift5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
fmerhout/fmerhout.github.io
Aug 2018 - Jul 2022
Contributions:25 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 11 months
fmerhout/summer-institute
Apr 2018 - Apr 2018
Contributions:4 PRs, 13 pushes, 2 branches in 3 days
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