Dr. Wiebke Weber

Short Description

Wiebke Weber joined the Social Data Science and AI Lab (SODA) at LMU Munich as Scientific Manager in 2022. In this role, she manages all resources within the SODA Lab, works to optimize and standardize processes to enhance workflows, and improve efficiency across projects and operations. Additionally, she leads and supports a variety of projects and organises many of the SODA Lab events.

From 2013 to 2022, Wiebke was leading the Advanced Survey Quality Methods (ASQME) research group, the Survey Quality Predictor (SQP) project, and the Core Scientific Team of the European Social Survey (ESS) ERIC at the Research and Expertise Centre for Survey Methodology (RECSM) of Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona, Spain). From 2019 to 2022, she was Deputy Director of RECSM. Her research focuses mainly on measurement quality and comparability of survey items. As a survey consultant, she advises on questionnaire design and survey data analyses (with correction for measurement error).

Previously, she was a member of the Scientific Advisory Panel of SAHWA (2014-2017), publication officer of the online journal Survey Research Methods (SRM, 2009-2014) and held the position of General Secretary of the European Survey Research Association (ESRA, 2009-2011).