Julian Gierenz, M.A.

Julian Gierenz is a PhD Candidate and Research Associate at the Chair for Political Science, especially Digital Transformation. He studied Staatswissenschaften (B.A.) at the University of Erfurt and Political Science (M.A.) with a focus on Computational Social Science at the University of Bamberg. 

He researches the political impact of Artificial Intelligence, particularly Large Language Models (LLMs). In his dissertation, he investigates the potential of LLMs to enable the scaling of deliberative processes, applying Natural Language Processing methods. Concurrently, as a researcher on the BIDT-funded project 'Authoritarian AI', he analyzes the control and instrumentalization of AI in authoritarian contexts. His further research interests include applying LLMs in social science research more broadly, particularly within agent-based modeling.