News

06/07/2026 Dr. Anna-Carolina Haensch joins Editorial Board of Survey Practice

Dr. Anna-Carolina Haensch has joined the Editorial Board of Survey Practice as an Associate Editor.

06/07/2026 Prof. Frauke Kreuter bid farewell as AAPOR President

Prof. Frauke Kreuter was recognized for her service as AAPOR President and contributed to the opening plenary of the 2026 AAPOR Annual Conference.

01/06/2026 Anna Fuchs receives the 2026 "BVM Nachwuchsforscherin" Award

Anna Fuchs has won the "BVM Nachwuchsforscherin" Award for her Master's thesis examining LLM-generated survey items.

17/03/2026 DSSGx Munich 2026 - Call for Fellows

The DSSG program is back!

04/03/2026 SODA Members Receive Three Awards @ GOR 2026

Three members and one former member of the SODA Lab have won three different awards at the GOR 2026

22/01/2026 Prof. Kreuter appeared on ARD's "alpha": AI's impact on our lives today and future.

Prof. Kreuter appeared on ARD's "alpha" to discuss how artificial intelligence is changing our everyday lives, what it is truly capable of today, and what we need to consider for the future.

04/12/2025 Student Assistant for Science Communication Focus

We are looking for you: Student Assistant for Science Communication Focus: Text and Visual Content (m/f/x) in Munich.

29/10/2025 Unai Fischer Abaigar was interviewed on the Executive Code podcast

27/10/2025 Frauke Kreuter receives the 2026 Waksberg Award

14/10/2025 Recent Article featuring Prof. Kreuter published: “AI has become transformative”

08/09/2025 Publication Alert: New Benchmark Dataset for Greenhouse Gas Emissions

23/08/2025 Publication Alert: Promoting Self-Regulation Skills in Children and Adolescents

13/08/2025 Women in Data Science (WiDS) Munich event returns for 2025

13/08/2025 Dr. Anna-Carolina Haensch Appointed to APSA Task Force on Artificial Intelligence and Political Science

08/08/2025 Publication Alert: Pre-Trained Nonresponse Prediction in Panel Surveys with Machine Learning

06/08/2025 SODA Lab @ ACL 2025: NLP in Social Science and Humanity Studies

Vienna, July 27 to August 1st, 2025

30/07/2025 SODA Members featured in ESRA Podcast Series

24/07/2025 Sarah Ball featured in latest "Neuland" by BR episode: AI in Our Everyday Lives

21/07/2025 SODA Lab @ ESRA 2025: Emerging Topics in Survey Methodology

13/07/2025 Outstanding Paper Award at ICML 2025

Vancouver, July 13–19, 2025

13/07/2025 SODA @ ICML 2025: Papers and Awards

Vancouver, July 13–19, 2025

01/07/2025 Job Alert: GreenDIA B-Plan-Project Student Assistant

26/06/2025 Frauke Kreuter explains: Why Data Quality Matters for Better and Fairer AI

10/06/2025 Publication Alert: Algorithms for Reliable Decision-Making Need Causal Reasoning

04/06/2025 Felicitas Sommer featured in recent Deutschlandfunk Nova Article: "Rent Cap"

02/06/2025 SODA Lab at the 80th AAPOR conference

02/06/2025 AAPOR 2025 Best Poster Award for Sarah Ball

28/04/2025 DAGStat 2025 Best Poster Award for Laia Domenech Burin

12/04/2025 SODA Lab @ DAGStat 2025: Statistics in Times of AI

10/04/2025 LMU-NYU-Workshop “Making Data Work: Tools for Better Statistical Practice”

20/01/2025 Data Scarcity and AI Solutions: Social Research in New Ways

The social sciences rely on data from surveys or data about users. To obtain it, LMU researchers are increasingly relying on artificial intelligence and analyzing digital footprints.