Moritz Laurer Email & Phone Number

Paris, Fr

Paris, Île-De-France, France

Berlin, Germany

Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

- Researching how to make machine learning work better with less data- Measuring complex concepts with little, imbalanced, multilingual texts for social science use-cases- Investigating the value of computer linguistics and natural language processing for social science research

Berlin, Germany

- Teaching: fine-tuning and evaluating Transformer models. See materials and video here: https://ds3.ai/2023/transformer.html

Berlin, Germany

- Consulted clients on building solutions with Transformer models and NLP. For example, building Retrieval Augmented Q&A/LLM systems- Organised the European Policy Data Science Network for CEPS: https://policydatascientists.eu/

Brussels, Brussels Region, Belgium

- Organising a network of data scientists working on policy and societal issues https://policydatascientists.eu/- Using NLP methods for tenders and grants for the EU institutions- Assessing socio-economic impacts of AI and robotics and providing recommendations for technical pilots https://flexigrobots-h2020.eu/

Brussels, Brussels Region, Belgium

- Data analyses: conducted Natural Language Processing on large text corpora. Trained several deep learning algorithms for analysing COVID-19 policies and political discourse. Open-sourced here: https://huggingface.co/MoritzLaurer- Data collection: web scraping datasets e.g. 142 000+ EU legal acts and 100 000+ media articles in Python and R. Data open-sourced: https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/0EGYWY- Data visualisation: programming an interactive… Show more - Data analyses: conducted Natural Language Processing on large text corpora. Trained several deep learning algorithms for analysing COVID-19 policies and political discourse. Open-sourced here: https://huggingface.co/MoritzLaurer- Data collection: web scraping datasets e.g. 142 000+ EU legal acts and 100 000+ media articles in Python and R. Data open-sourced: https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/0EGYWY- Data visualisation: programming an interactive web application with Python & AWS- Giving data science trainings: Training on Sentiment Analysis at European University Institute; Workshop on Deep Learning for Social Sciences at IC2S2 conference; Presentation on analysing citizen feedback with NLP for the World Bank- Research on opportunities and challenges linked to emerging technologies Show less

Brussels Area, Belgium

GRID Unit (Global Governance, Regulation, Innovation, Digital Economy)

Brussels Area, Belgium

- Projects included: The impact of big data applications on European industries (see www.boost40.eu); Digital Innovation Hubs (DIH); economic consequences of data protection legislation; tendering; ...- CARSA Brussels provides services to the European Commission and other international organisations in the domain of technology and innovation

Berlin Area, Germany

- Visualised country data in a world heatmap with the programming language R - Conducted research on topics such as the EU’s AI strategy or the EU's market power and the GDPR

Brussels Area, Belgium

- Analysed EU investment policy and drafted position paper on tax transparency laws in the aftermath of the Panama Papers Scandal- Participated at meetings with MEPs and events in the European Parliament

Région De Berlin, Allemagne

- Conducted research and published a paper on EU external trade and investment policy.- Gained first-hand experience of political consulting in Germany’s leading think tank for international politics.

Région De Berlin, Allemagne

- Produced research for papers on international politics for Members of Parliament (trade policy, Franco-German relations, migration policy).- Attended committees, faction meetings, ministries, press conferences etc.

Région De Augsburg, Allemagne

- Led weekly seminars for first year students to complement lectures.- Assisted professor with research and administrative tasks(Job held during three semesters for two professors)

Région De Washington D.C. Metro, États-Unis

- Experienced political consulting in the US and managed social media and outreach.- Conducted research and published articles.

Augsburg Area, Germany

- Attended council meetings and hearings and accompanied aldermen during campaigns. - Organised and restructured press archive.

Région De Augsburg, Allemagne

- Wrote local news articles and conducted interviews for the daily newspaper (circulation of 200,000).

Double Master'S Degree, European Studies, Political Economy, 1,2

- European economics, politics and law. - Master thesis: "Regulating the European Data-Driven Economy - A Case Study on the GDPR".

Double Master'S Degree, Affaires Européennes, Cum Laude

Washington Semester Program, Foreign Policy, A

In the 'Foreign Policy' programme, seminars were taught by professionals from ministries, think tanks, NGOs and businesses on the foreign.

Bachelor'S Degree, Political Science, Sociology, Economics, 1.5 (Among Best 5%)

Focus on quantitative and qualitative methods: courses on research designs, statistics, SPSS, questionnaire design and interviews..