Dr. Valerie Hase is a postdoctoral scholar and research associate at the division for Computational Communication Research, LMU Munich. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Zurich in 2022, with a dissertation on Employing Computational Social Science to Analyze Coverage of Political Violence. Her research focuses on computational methods, especially automated content analysis and digital trace data, digital journalism, and crisis communication.

Sophia Charlotte Volk, Ph.D., is a senior research and teaching associate at the Division of Science Communication at the University of Zurich. She received her Ph.D. from Leipzig University (Germany) with a dissertation on Comparative Communication Research, in which she examined the methodological and social challenges of conducting comparative studies in international teams. Her research interests include strategic communication, science communication, evaluation and impact measurement, digital media environments, international comparisons, and team science.