Will Lowe
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Experience
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Hertie School
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Germany
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Higher Education
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1 - 100 Employee
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Senior Research Scientist
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Feb 2020 - Present
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Fellow
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2007 - Present
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Princeton University
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United States
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Higher Education
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700 & Above Employee
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Senior Research Specialist and Lecturer in the Department of Politics
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Aug 2015 - Jan 2020
Political methodologist with a focus on statistical text analysis. Statistical and research design consultant, inveterate writer of R packages, pusher of cloud computing, and causal inference enthusiast. Instructor for POL 245 (Freshman Scholars Institute), POL 345 (Intro to Quantitative Social Science), and provider of graduate level data science and text analysis short courses. Political methodologist with a focus on statistical text analysis. Statistical and research design consultant, inveterate writer of R packages, pusher of cloud computing, and causal inference enthusiast. Instructor for POL 245 (Freshman Scholars Institute), POL 345 (Intro to Quantitative Social Science), and provider of graduate level data science and text analysis short courses.
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Mannheim Centre for European Social Research
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Higher Education
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1 - 100 Employee
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Senior Researcher
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Oct 2010 - Jul 2015
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The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
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United Kingdom
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Higher Education
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700 & Above Employee
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Visiting Fellow
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Jun 2012 - May 2015
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Maastricht University
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Netherlands
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Higher Education
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700 & Above Employee
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Assistant Professor in Research Methods
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2009 - 2011
Co-designed the Research Masters in European Studies Co-designed the Research Masters in European Studies
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University of Bath
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United Kingdom
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Higher Education
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700 & Above Employee
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Visiting Research Fellow
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2003 - 2010
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University of Nottingham
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United Kingdom
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Research Services
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700 & Above Employee
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Methods and Data Research Fellow
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2006 - 2009
Teaching and consulting on research design, statistical analysis for the social sciences and law. Recent applications include inferring policy preferences from text; models of secessionism; militias and pro-government armed groups; the politics and technology of international criminal law. Teaching and consulting on research design, statistical analysis for the social sciences and law. Recent applications include inferring policy preferences from text; models of secessionism; militias and pro-government armed groups; the politics and technology of international criminal law.
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Wordmap
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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1 - 100 Employee
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Technical Architect
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2003 - 2006
Design and development of enterprise taxonomy and metadata software. Running an EU project that applied ontology and computational linguistic methods to business intelligence. Design and development of enterprise taxonomy and metadata software. Running an EU project that applied ontology and computational linguistic methods to business intelligence.
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Harvard University
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United States
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Higher Education
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700 & Above Employee
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Research Fellow
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2000 - 2003
Evaluation of information extraction systems for event data analysis. Development and application of content analysis tool to political text. Evaluation of information extraction systems for event data analysis. Development and application of content analysis tool to political text.
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Tufts University
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United States
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Higher Education
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700 & Above Employee
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Research Associate
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1999 - 2000
Worked with Daniel Dennett, mostly on the evolution of altruism and group selection. Worked with Daniel Dennett, mostly on the evolution of altruism and group selection.
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Education
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The University of Edinburgh
PhD, Cognitive Science -
The University of Edinburgh
MSc, Cognitive Science and Natural Language Processing -
University of Warwick
BA, Philosophy