CV

Basics

Name Niklas Haehn (Hähn)
Label Political Scientist
Email nhaehn@ucsd.edu
Summary A computational political scientist from Germany. Currently working as a PhD student at UCSD

Work

  • 2026.06 - Present
    Graduate Student Researcher
    Center for American Politics, University of California, San Diego
    Building a large-scale dataset of presidential imagery to study political self-presentation and communication.
    • Political Communication
    • Computational Methods
  • 2024.08 - 2025.07
    Postgraduate Associate and CSAP Predoctoral Fellow
    Institution for Social and Policy Studies, Yale University, U.S.
    Working with Prof. Josh Kalla and Prof. Shiro Kuriwaki
    • Ticket Splitting
    • Large Language Models

Education

  • 2025.09 - Present

    La Jolla, United States

    PhD
    University of California, US
    Political Science
    • Computational Social Science
    • Interest Groups
    • Social Media
  • 2023.10 - 2025.09

    Konstanz, Germany

    Master of Science
    University of Konstanz, GER
    Political Economy
    • Computational Social Science
    • Game Theory
    • Econometrics
  • 2018.09 - 2023.09

    Mannheim, Germany

    Bachelor of Arts
    University of Mannheim, GER
    Political Science and Public Law
    • Comparative Politics
    • Political Economy

Skills

Political Science
R
Python
Stata

Languages

German
Native speaker
English
Fluent

Interests

Political Science
Political Communication
Mass Media
Causal Identification