Johanna Einsiedler
PostDoc @ Digital Humanities Lab, University of Basel
PostDoc @ Center for Social Data Science, University of Copenhagen
Research
Ongoing Work
Published
- 2026
- 2025
- 2025
- 2025
- 2021
Short CV
Positions
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December 2025 – ongoing · Consultant
World Bank Development Report on AI & Development. -
April 2025 – ongoing · Postdoctoral Researcher
Digital Humanities Lab, University of Basel. -
March 2025 – ongoing · Postdoctoral Researcher
Center for Social Data Science, University of Copenhagen. -
September 2024 – February 2025 · Visiting Researcher
Data, Law & Economics Group, ETH Zurich. -
February 2024 – June 2024 · Visiting Researcher
Institute for Data, Systems and Society, MIT.
Education
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October 2021 – June 2025 · PhD in Social Data Science
University of Copenhagen. -
MSc in Economics
Vienna University of Economics and Business.
Teaching Experience
Courses & Supervision
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Spring 2026 · Generative AI & Society — AI, Work & the Future of Occupations [Syllabus]
Sole course responsible, University of Basel — Master-level seminar. Drawing on recent literature from economics, organizational behavior, and computer science, the course covers AI adoption in the workplace, productivity and task-content effects, worker–AI complementarity, early labor-market adjustments, and the ethical, governance, and societal implications (inequality, bias, public attitudes). The seminar is discussion based and requires students to run mini-experiments, testing how well LLMs do at performing different work related tasks. -
Fall 2025 · Seminar on Generative AI in Social Science Research [Open Course Materials]
Sole course responsible, University of Basel — Master-level course. Covers developments in using large language models across the research pipeline—from hypothesis generation and synthetic survey respondents to causal inference assistants and text analysis—paired with critical discussion of methodological potential and ethical challenges. -
2022, 2023 · Master thesis supervision
Social Data Science, University of Copenhagen. Projects included: Externalities of including special education students in regular classrooms; Exploring Danish court rulings with quantitative methods; Rlasso-Models for high-dimensional inference in Python; Predicting stadium attendance in Danish professional football; Identifying whether LLMs can capture non-dominant cultures in India. -
Fall 2023 · Elementary Social Data Science [Course Description]
Teaching Assistant, University of Copenhagen. -
Fall 2023 · Introduction Week Social Data Science Masters
Organiser, University of Copenhagen. -
Fall 2020 · Fundamentals of Business Administration
Adjunct lecturer, Modul University Vienna.
Memberships & Service
Memberships
- Member, Academy Leadership Team, Swiss Reproducibility Network — a network of young researchers interested in meta-science, open science, and reproducibility.
- Member, Student & PostDoc Committee, Society for Causal Inference.
Reviewing
- Journal of Management
- Philosophy Meets Machine Learning: What Counts As Trustworthy? — Workshop @ ICML 2026
- Epistemic Intelligence in Machine Learning — Workshop @ ICML 2026
- Epistemic Intelligence in Machine Learning — Workshop @ EURIPS 2025
- International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2) 2023
Projects
Tools
- I have developed Metalens, a tool to interactively explore meta-studies (generously supported by the Cosmos x FIRE Truth Seeking grants program and the AI-Accelerated Scholarship Program of the Cosmos Institute & Institute for Humane Studies), and MetaPaperlens, a tool to assist structured data extraction from scientific papers.
Code
- maseminer — a tool for systematic-review workflows.
- latex-track-changes — some code that makes it easy to compare two LaTeX files against each other and mark all changes in blue.
- py-latent-profiles — a Python package for Latent Profile Analysis (available via PyPI).
Creative
- I engaged in an art × science project called "Do algorithms care?", exhibited at the Ars Electronica Festival 2024.
- I founded and co-hosted The PhD Pod, a podcast where we explore science topics and chat about PhD life. My favourite episode is about trust in medicine and challenges in fieldwork.
Presentations
Presentations
- Fall 2025. What Can We Automate (and How Well)? A Preregistered Evaluation of Open-Source LLM Pipelines for Automated Systematic Reviews. Paul Meehl Graduate School Meta Research Symposium 2025.
- Spring 2024. Engineering Social Groups: How Organizational Group Assignment Affects the Social Fabric. Ninth Annual Conference on Network Science and Economics.
- Spring 2024. Impact of ChatGPT on Online Labour Markets. AICE – AI, Cognition, and the Economy | Spring 2024 Workshop, Microsoft Research.
- Summer 2023. Persistence of Social Ties from Informal Group Interactions. International Conference for Computational Social Science (IC2S2) 2023.
- Summer 2023. Generalizability of Multimorbidity Patterns: A Cross Country Comparison. NetSci 2023.
Get in touch
Always happy to chat — don't hesitate to reach out!