Sebastian Stier
Areas of specialization
Political Communication • Computational Social Science • Political Behavior • Digital Media • Digital Governance • Populism • Democracy Research
Academic career
1/2016-present Senior Researcher (permanent position)
GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Cologne
4/2018-3/2019 Substitute Professor (Professurvertretung)
University of Duisburg-Essen, Institute of Political Science Education
2/2012-3/2016 PhD in Political Science, Heidelberg University (summa cum laude)
9/2005–7/2011 M.A. (Magister) in Political Science, History and Law, Heidelberg University (summa cum laude)
Stier, S., Breuer, J., Siegers, P., & Thorson, K. (2020). Integrating survey data and digital trace data: Key issues in developing an emerging field. https://doi.org/10.1177/0894439319843669