CV

Education

• Ph.D. in Institutional Economics, University of Bremen, 2024
• M.A. in Professional Public Decision Making, University of Bremen, 2020
• B.S. in Economics, University of Bremen, 2018

Work Experience

• 2025 – present: Postdoctoral Researcher, TUM School of Social Sciences and Technology, Technical University of Munich
• 2025: Postdoctoral Researcher, Centre for Social Data Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Helsinki
• 2021 – 2024: Doctoral Researcher, Chair of Institutional Economics, Faculty of Business Studies and Economics, University of Bremen
• 2018 – 2020: Research Assistant, Chair of Innovation and Structural Change, Faculty of Business Studies and Economics, University of Bremen
• Summer 2017: Teaching Assistant (Microeconomics), University of Bremen

Skills

• Quantitative and Experimental Methods
  • Survey and laboratory experiments
  • Conjoint experiment design and analysis
  • Econometric and panel data analysis
  • Patent and innovation data analysis
• Qualitative Methods
  • Semi-structured interviews
  • Focus groups
  • Mixed-methods research design
  • Thematic and content analysis
• Programming and Data Analysis
  • R (data management, statistical modeling, visualization)

Publications

Authoritarian Surveillance and Public Support for Digital Governance Solutions

Karpa, D., & Rochlitz, M. (2024). Authoritarian Surveillance and Public Support for Digital Governance Solutions. Comparative Political Studies, 58(10). https://doi.org/10.1177/00104140241290208

Authoritarian Surveillance, Innovation and Growth

Klarl, Torben and Karpa, David F. and Leusin, Matheus Eduardo and Rochlitz, Michael, Authoritarian Surveillance, Innovation and Growth (October 6, 2023). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract= Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract_id=4594849

Artificial Intelligence, Surveillance, and Big Data

Karpa, D., Klarl, T., Rochlitz, M. (2022). Artificial Intelligence, Surveillance, and Big Data. In: Hornuf, L. (eds) Diginomics Research Perspectives. Advanced Studies in Diginomics and Digitalization. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-04063-4_8

A Transparency Checklist for Carbon Footprint Calculations Applied within a Systematic Review of Virtual Care Interventions

Lange, O.; Plath, J.; Dziggel, T.F.; Karpa, D.F.; Keil, M.; Becker, T.; Rogowski, W.H. A Transparency Checklist for Carbon Footprint Calculations Applied within a Systematic Review of Virtual Care Interventions. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19, 7474. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19127474

Teaching

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