Oliver Rittmann

Oliver Rittmann
Lorenz-von-Stein Research Fellow
oliver.rittmann [at] uni-mannheim.de
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+49 621 181–2866
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Postal Address
University of Mannheim, MZES
68131  Mannheim
Germany
Visiting Address
University of Mannheim, MZES
A5, 6 Building A
Room:A 216
68159  Mannheim

Profile/Career

Oliver Rittmann joined the MZES as a Lorenz-von-Stein Fellow in Research Department B in July 2024. His research interests include inequalities in the political representation of different societal groups, political discrimination, and non-verbal elements of political communication. He also has a strong interest in quantitative methods, especially in the computational analyses of audiovisual data.

Oliver Rittmann studied social science at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf and political science at the University of Mannheim. In his dissertation, he investigated the potential of computational audio and video analysis for the study of political inequality and non-verbal communication in parliamentary contexts.

Publications

Journal Articles

Rittmann, Oliver (2024): Legislators' Emotional Engagement with Women's Issues: Gendered Patterns of Vocal Pitch in the German Bundestag. British Journal of Political Science, 54, issue 3, pp. 937–945. more