New scientific staff member: Clara Husson

Since April 2021, Clara Husson has been working as a Research Associate at the chair of Empirical Democracy Research at the University of Mannheim and since August 2022 she has been working as an academic staff member at the MZES, research dept. B (Prof. Traunmüller).

Clara Husson is a PhD candidate in Political Science at the GESS. She obtained a Bachelor's degree in Social Sciences at the University College of Sciences Po Paris (France). For her Master’s degree she studied Political Science at the University of Mannheim.

Clara is particularly interested in quantitative political methodology, including Bayesian methods, automated Text Analysis, and Machine Learning. Her substantive research interests lie at the intersection of sociolinguistics and politics: political discourse and rhetoric, politics of free speech and censorship, and the sociolinguistic aspect of political communication on the citizen’s opinion formation.