Austria
Hello! I am the Moritz Schlick postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Communication at the University of Vienna, Austria. At the University of Vienna, I am affiliated to the Political Communication Research Group (POLCOM) and the Computational Communication Lab (CCL). My research focuses on political communication, public opinion, and political psychology, primarily in the E.U. and the U.S. My substantive interests lie in misinformation, political micro-targeting, and the use of LLM tools in persuasion campaigns. In my research, I rely on a variety of quantitative tools, including survey, conjoint, and field experiments as well as large panel and cross-sectional datasets. Before joining the University of Vienna, I was assistant professor (untenured) in the Department of Communication at the University of Athens. I received my Dual Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia University and Sciences Po Paris in 2021. My research has been supported by the Liberty Project, the Moritz Schlick early-career program, the Alliance Program, the National Foundation of Political Science (France), the Onassis Foundation, and the Columbia Experimental Laboratory for the Social Sciences. My research has appeared or is forthcoming in various journals in Communication, Political Science, and Psychology, including Political Psychology. 🕊 @GNGeorgarakis ☁️ @gngeorgarakis.bsky.social 🐘 @[email protected] ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/George_Georgarakis
I am affiliated to the Political Communication Research Group (PI: Sophie Lecheler) and the Computational Communication Lab (PI: Hajo Boomgaarden and Annie Waldherr). I use large-scale experiments to study misinformation, political micro-targeting, and the use of AI in electoral campaigns.
I am a research associate in the ERC-funded POLINEQUAL project (PI: Sonja Zmerli). In this research program, I am responsible for fielding experiments to study the framing effects of economic inequality and develop persuasive communication strategies to redress inequalities.
I taught courses on Fake News and the Sociology of Mass Media.
Teaching Assistant to Prof. Robert Y. Shapiro for the course Principles of Quantitative Political Research II: Applied Econometrics at the undergraduate and graduate level. I taught classes on Multiple Regression Analysis, Models with Discrete Dependent Variables, Simultaneous Equation Models, Time Series Analysis, Unobserved Variables, Measurement, Factor Analysis, Survey Experiments, and Further Topics in Causal Inference.
Teaching Assistant to Prof. Robert Y. Shapiro for the course Principles of Quantitative Political Research I at the undergraduate and graduate level. I taught classes on Scientific Study, Theory Construction, Research Design, Measurement and the Evaluation of Evidence, Data Cleaning and Documentation, Univariate Analysis, Bivariate Analysis and Causal Theories, Bivariate Regression Analysis, and Complex Theories and Multivariate Regression.