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Martin Wessel
Martin Wessel
wessel@cdtm.com
Center Assistant since 2023 Martin Wessel completed his Bachelor's degree in Philosophy & Economics from the University of Bayreuth, during which he studied development economics during a stay at the Indira Gandhi Institute for Development Research in Mumbai. His interest in data analysis led him to work in a data analysis department, which encouraged him to pursue a Master's degree in Social and Economic Data Science at the University of Konstanz. During his master's, he focused on natural language processing (NLP) and joined a research group on media bias, which ultimately led him to a research stay at the National Institute of Informatics in Tokyo. Alongside his studies, Martin worked as a tutor and at the Cluster of Excellence "The Politics of Inequality," where he contributed to a project aimed at measuring inequality in Germany. Though not set on a Ph.D. topic yet, with a desire to continue exploring the interface between NLP and social sciences, Martin plans to pursue further ideas on media bias detection. Martin joined the CDTM as a CA in March 2023. He is currently co-owning the Digital Changemaker course and is responsible for the Onboarding taskforce.
Research

NLP and computational social science, in particular automatic media bias detection; PhD student at TUM Chair of Computational Social Science (Prof. Jürgen Pfeffer), earlier Media Bias Group.

  1. LLM-based Adversarial Dataset Augmentation for Automatic Media Bias Detection2025, workshop, LaTeCH-CLfL at ACL
  2. Reddit Rehab: User Migration in Response to Mobile Client Shutdowns2025, conference, ICWSM, with Franz Waltenberger, Angelina Voggenreiter, Jürgen Pfeffer
  3. MAGPIE: Multi-Task Analysis of Media-Bias Generalization with Pre-Trained Identification of Expressions2024, conference, LREC-COLING, with Tomáš Horych, Jan Philip Wahle, Terry Ruas et al.
All 5 publications