Mikael Johannesson
Research Scientist at University of Bergen
Bergen, Vestland, Norway
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Top SchoolMikael Johannesson is an applied data scientist and research scientist with 11 years of experience combining PhD-level comparative politics expertise with quantitative methods and digital research infrastructure. He has led and coordinated large survey projects like the Norwegian Citizen Panel, developed digital tools for social science research, and held research positions at NORCE, University of Bergen, and a visiting fellowship at Harvard. His work bridges quantitative text analysis, survey coordination, and computational social science, bringing a pragmatic focus on reproducible workflows and data-driven policy insights. Based in Bergen, Norway, he routinely collaborates across academic and research centres (including IQSS and the Digital Social Science Core Facility), reflecting strong interdisciplinary networks. Notably, his background pairs deep domain knowledge in political science with hands-on experience building and coordinating digital research projects—making him effective at turning complex social questions into analyzable data.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Comparative Politics, PhD Comparative Politics at University of Bergen (UiB)
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Github Skills (25)
r-package10
cffi9
r8
interoperability8
duplicate-detection7
extractor7
python7
type-conversion6
nlp6
reticulate6
keras6
lubridate6
scraper6
webscraping6
plot6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
mikajoh/atekstR
Oct 2015 - Feb 2019
Extract articles (with metadata) from .txt-files downloaded from ATEKST
Contributions:1 PR, 25 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 5 months
txt-filestxtpythondata-extractionduplicate-detection
mikajoh/readgdf
Sep 2016 - Jun 2018
Contributions:30 commits, 25 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
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