Moritz Laurer
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German Native or bilingual proficiency
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English Full professional proficiency
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French Professional working proficiency
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Credentials
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Learn JavaScript Course
CodecademyMar, 2023- Oct, 2024
Experience
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Hertie School Data Science Lab
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Germany
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Public Policy Offices
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1 - 100 Employee
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Visiting PhD Researcher
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Jan 2023 - Present
- Teaching: using, fine-tuning and evaluating Transformer models. See materials and video here: https://ds3.ai/2023/transformer.html - Teaching: using, fine-tuning and evaluating Transformer models. See materials and video here: https://ds3.ai/2023/transformer.html
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Freiberuflich
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Berlin, Germany
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NLP consultant
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Sep 2022 - Present
- Consulting clients on building solutions with Transformer models and NLP. For example, building Retrieval Augmented Q&A/LLM systems - Organising the European Policy Data Science Network for CEPS: https://policydatascientists.eu/ - Consulting clients on building solutions with Transformer models and NLP. For example, building Retrieval Augmented Q&A/LLM systems - Organising the European Policy Data Science Network for CEPS: https://policydatascientists.eu/
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Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam)
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Netherlands
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Higher Education
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700 & Above Employee
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Researcher Phd Candidate
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Oct 2021 - Present
- Researching how to make machine learning work better with less data - Measuring complex concepts with little, imbalanced, multilingual texts for social science use-cases - Investigating the value of computer linguistics and natural language processing for social science research - Researching how to make machine learning work better with less data - Measuring complex concepts with little, imbalanced, multilingual texts for social science use-cases - Investigating the value of computer linguistics and natural language processing for social science research
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CEPS (Centre for European Policy Studies)
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Belgium
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Think Tanks
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100 - 200 Employee
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Researcher
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Oct 2021 - Sep 2022
- Organising a network of data scientists working on policy and societal issues https://policydatascientists.eu/- Using NLP methods for tenders and grants for the EU institutions- Assessing socio-economic impacts of AI and robotics and providing recommendations for technical pilots https://flexigrobots-h2020.eu/
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Researcher
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Jun 2020 - Oct 2021
- Data analyses: conducted Natural Language Processing on large text corpora. Trained several deep learning algorithms for analysing COVID-19 policies and political discourse. Open-sourced here: https://huggingface.co/MoritzLaurer- Data collection: web scraping datasets e.g. 142 000+ EU legal acts and 100 000+ media articles in Python and R. Data open-sourced: https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/0EGYWY- Data visualisation: programming an interactive web application with Python & AWS- Giving data science trainings: Training on Sentiment Analysis at European University Institute; Workshop on Deep Learning for Social Sciences at IC2S2 conference; Presentation on analysing citizen feedback with NLP for the World Bank- Research on opportunities and challenges linked to emerging technologies Show less
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Research Assistant
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Jun 2019 - Jun 2020
GRID Unit (Global Governance, Regulation, Innovation, Digital Economy)
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CARSA
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Spain
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Business Consulting and Services
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100 - 200 Employee
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Consultant
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Oct 2018 - Jun 2019
- Projects included: The impact of big data applications on European industries (see www.boost40.eu); Digital Innovation Hubs (DIH); economic consequences of data protection legislation; tendering; ... - CARSA Brussels provides services to the European Commission and other international organisations in the domain of technology and innovation - Projects included: The impact of big data applications on European industries (see www.boost40.eu); Digital Innovation Hubs (DIH); economic consequences of data protection legislation; tendering; ... - CARSA Brussels provides services to the European Commission and other international organisations in the domain of technology and innovation
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Auswärtiges Amt (Federal Foreign Office) Germany
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Germany
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Government Administration
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700 & Above Employee
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Policy Planning Staff | Intern
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Apr 2018 - May 2018
- Visualised country data in a world heatmap with the programming language R - Conducted research on topics such as the EU’s AI strategy or the EU's market power and the GDPR - Visualised country data in a world heatmap with the programming language R - Conducted research on topics such as the EU’s AI strategy or the EU's market power and the GDPR
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Eurosif - The European Sustainable Investment Forum
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Belgium
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Financial Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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EU Investment Policy | Intern
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Jun 2017 - Jul 2017
- Analysed EU investment policy and drafted position paper on tax transparency laws in the aftermath of the Panama Papers Scandal - Participated at meetings with MEPs and events in the European Parliament - Analysed EU investment policy and drafted position paper on tax transparency laws in the aftermath of the Panama Papers Scandal - Participated at meetings with MEPs and events in the European Parliament
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Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP)
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Think Tanks
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1 - 100 Employee
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Research Group EU/Europe (SWP) | Intern
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Mar 2016 - May 2016
- Conducted research and published a paper on EU external trade and investment policy. - Gained first-hand experience of political consulting in Germany’s leading think tank for international politics. - Conducted research and published a paper on EU external trade and investment policy. - Gained first-hand experience of political consulting in Germany’s leading think tank for international politics.
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Deutscher Bundestag
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Région de Berlin, Allemagne
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Scientific Services WD2 | Intern
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Sep 2015 - Nov 2015
- Produced research for papers on international politics for Members of Parliament (trade policy, Franco-German relations, migration policy). - Attended committees, faction meetings, ministries, press conferences etc. - Produced research for papers on international politics for Members of Parliament (trade policy, Franco-German relations, migration policy). - Attended committees, faction meetings, ministries, press conferences etc.
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University of Augsburg
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Germany
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Higher Education
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700 & Above Employee
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Chair of Comparative Politics / Peace and Conflict Research | Teaching Assistant
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Oct 2012 - Feb 2015
- Led weekly seminars for first year students to complement lectures. - Assisted professor with research and administrative tasks (Job held during three semesters for two professors) - Led weekly seminars for first year students to complement lectures. - Assisted professor with research and administrative tasks (Job held during three semesters for two professors)
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Institute for Policy Studies
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United States
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Think Tanks
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1 - 100 Employee
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Foreign Policy | Intern
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Sep 2013 - Dec 2013
- Experienced political consulting in the US and managed social media and outreach. - Conducted research and published articles. - Experienced political consulting in the US and managed social media and outreach. - Conducted research and published articles.
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City Council of Augsburg
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Augsburg Area, Germany
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City Council | Intern
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Mar 2013 - Apr 2013
- Attended council meetings and hearings and accompanied aldermen during campaigns. - Organised and restructured press archive. - Attended council meetings and hearings and accompanied aldermen during campaigns. - Organised and restructured press archive.
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Augsburger Allgemeine
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Germany
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Media Production
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100 - 200 Employee
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Newspaper | Intern
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Mar 2012 - Apr 2012
- Wrote local news articles and conducted interviews for the daily newspaper (circulation of 200,000). - Wrote local news articles and conducted interviews for the daily newspaper (circulation of 200,000).
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Education
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2017 - 2018
Freie Universität Berlin
Double Master's degree, European Studies, Political Economy -
2016 - 2017
Sciences Po
Double Master's degree, Affaires européennes -
2013 - 2013
American University
Washington Semester Program, Foreign Policy -
2011 - 2015
Universität Augsburg
Bachelor's degree, Political Science, Sociology, Economics
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