Dr. Patrick Breithaupt

Dr. Patrick Breithaupt

Digital Economy

Patrick Breithaupt holds a bachelor’s and master’s degree in applied computer sciences from Heidelberg University, where he focused on machine learning, text mining and optimisation.

In his master’s thesis he dealt with the modelling and analysis of social media data and worked on the interdisciplinary research project “Wahlkampf in (a)sozialen Netzwerken” (“electoral campaigns in (non-)social networks”). After his studies, he worked as a data scientist in IT consultancy and joined ZEW’s Research Unit “Digital Economy” in July 2019.

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