Johanna Einsiedler

PostDoc @ Digital Humanities Lab, University of Basel

PostDoc @ Center for Social Data Science, University of Copenhagen

AI for Science · Causal ML & Uncertainty · Future of Work · Metascience & Reproducibility

Research

Metascience & Reproducibility — Metascience

Ongoing Work

AI for Science Metascience & Reproducibility

A Framework for Reproducible AI-Assisted Research in the Social and Behavioral Sciences

Schroeders, U., Breuer, J., Einsiedler, J., Frank, M., Gnambs, T., Haim, M., Hommel, B., Jankowsky, K., Knöpfle, P., Schönbrodt, F.
AI for Science Metascience & Reproducibility

Read the Paper, Write the Code: Agentic Reproduction of Social-Science Results

Kohler, B., Zollikofer, D., Einsiedler, J., Hoyle, A., Ash, E.

arXiv:2604.21965 [cs.AI], 2026.
Causal ML & Uncertainty

Engineering Social Networks: How Initial Group Assignment Shapes Student Social Interactions

Einsiedler, J., Harmon, N., Dreyer Lassen, D., Bjerre-Nielsen, A.
Generalizing Multimorbidity Models Across Countries: A Comparative Study of Austria and Denmark

Einsiedler, J., Ledebur, K., Klimek, P., Hvas Mortensen, L.
Causal ML & Uncertainty

Quantifying the Value of Missing Information for Individual Predictions

Einsiedler, J., Gentinetta, J.

1st Workshop on Epistemic Intelligence in Machine Learning (EIML 2025).
AI for Science Metascience & Reproducibility

Assessing the Potential for Automated Article Coding and Data Extraction in the Social Sciences

Einsiedler, J., Cummins, J., Jankowsky, K., Hernes, A., Schroeders, U., Lavelle-Hill, R.

preregistration | code

Published

2026
Future of Work

Aversive personality and RIASEC dimensions: Findings across self-reports, registered jobs, and three countries

De Hesselle, L. C., Einsiedler, J., Teutloff, O., Lilleholt, L., Hilbig, B. E., Moshagen, M., Zettler, I.

Journal of Personnel Psychology, Hogrefe Publishing, 2026.
2025
Unveiling the social fabric through a temporal, nation-scale social network and its characteristics

Cremers, J., Kohler, B., Frank Maier, B., Nymann Eriksen, S., Einsiedler, J., Kølby Christensen, F., Lehmann, S., Dreyer Lassen, D., Hvas Mortensen, L., Bjerre-Nielsen, A.

Nature Scientific Reports, 15, 18383, 2025.
2025
Metascience & Reproducibility

Nonresponse at three stages in personality research: Insights based on (Danish) register data of a representative potential participant pool

Einsiedler, J., Lilleholt, L., Hvast Mortensen, L., Schild, C., Zettler, I.

European Journal of Personality, 0(0), 2025.
2025
Future of Work AI for Science

Winners and losers of generative AI: Early evidence of shifts in freelancer demand

Teutloff, O., Einsiedler, J., Kässi, O., Braesmann, F., Mishkin, P., del Rio-Chanona, M.

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 235, 2025.
2021
Transferable Models to Understand the Impact of Lockdown Measures on Local Air Quality

Einsiedler, J., Cheng, Y., Papst, F., Saukh, O.

17th International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS), 2021.

Not Peer Reviewed

AI for Science Future of Work

Self-building benchmarks: Using AI-generated exams to understand LLM work capabilities

Del Rio Chanona, M., Einsiedler, J.

Working Paper, Brookings Center on Regulation and Markets, 2025.
Metascience & Reproducibility AI for Science

The future of research dissemination: Innovation in publishing formats

Trial, H., Einsiedler, J.

MIT Science Policy Review, 2025.
Future of Work

Large Language Models and the Danish Labour Market

Teutloff, O., Einsiedler, J., Søndergaard Møller, F.

Statistics Denmark Analysis, 2024.

Short CV

Positions

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

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

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

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!