Dr. Veronika Batzdorfer

Computational Social Scientist

I investigate how beliefs, narratives, and attention evolve over time. My work combines longitudinal time series analysis, natural language processing, and computational modeling to understand polarization, misinformation, and collective sense-making.

Fig. 1 · Attention dynamics

Normalized activity volume over time with structural breaks and endogenous feedback.

Fig. 2 · Polarization trajectories

Diverging engagement trajectories under asymmetric reinforcement.

Fig. 3 · Semantic drift

Directional embedding shift between corpora over time.