Alexandra Quaas

Commercial Development Analyst | Oxford MPhil Graduate in Comparative Government | DAAD scholarship | Member of Global Leadership Initiative 2024 | Fluent in German, English, Spanish

United Kingdom

About

Highly motivated political scientist with technical affinity. Recently completed an MPhil in Politics at the University of Oxford, with a focus on research methods and comparative politics. I bring hands-on experience from several research projects, where I worked on data collection, validation, and technical tools like R and Docker. My early studies in Business Informatics instilled in me a detail-oriented approach and a continued interest in the intersection of social science and technology. As a volunteer academic officer and member of the EDI committee at Oxford, I care deeply about contributing meaningful positive change.

Experience

  • Commercial Development Analyst at Starkey UK
    Apr 2026 - Present · 3 mos

  • Associate at KPMG Deutschland
    Dec 2025 - Mar 2026 · 4 mos

    - Invited to KPMGnext, an exclusive alumni network for my high performance - Built and maintained backend data infrastructure using SQL and Python, including data historization scripts and SQL query development - Conceptualized automation solutions for database processes, including matching algorithms and predictive modeling - Designed and implemented complex forms in Microsoft Access, improving data visibility and usability for end users - Designed and delivered a cyber awareness and information security campaign - Helped facilitating a strategic planning workshop using MS Whiteboard

  • Research Assistant at the ParlGov project led by Dr. Holger Döring and Prof. Philip Manow at University of Bremen
    Sep 2021 - Jul 2023 · 1 yr 11 mos

    - Collected and validated political data (parties, cabinets, elections) from multilingual news sources, ensuring accuracy and consistency - Helped maintain internal documentation to improve inter-coder reliability - Contributed to technical upkeep of the database and to statistical coding in R

  • Intern at GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences
    Sep 2022 - Oct 2022 · 2 mos

    - Co-developed a concept for archiving a social science software project and presented it in a team meeting as part of an internal archiving initiative - Strengthened skills in research communication, project coordination, and collaborative problem-solving - Reviewed literature on digital behavioural data and Natural Language Processing (NLP), with a focus on the ParlSpeech dataset - Attended a two-day workshop on comparative politics

  • Dual Study Programme in Business Informatics at IT.UV Software GmbH
    Oct 2019 - Feb 2020 · 5 mos

    - Built a foundation in software testing and quality assurance (Tricentis Tosca), with a strong focus on precision and structured thinking