John P. Caffier

ISO 9001-certified development of digital solutions for 15,000+ customers and 45,000,000+ end users, spanning from individuals and enterprises to NGOs and governments

• External Ph.D. Candidate
• Supervised by Dr. Bennett Kleinberg (Behavioural Data Science) and Prof. Dr. Olga Stavrova (Social Psychology & Micro-Sociology)

• Research group of Prof. Dr. Ralph Hertwig (Adaptive Rationality)
• Supervised by Dr. Philipp Lorenz-Spreen (Computational Social Science)

• Master of Science (M.Sc. / very good with distinction / 03/2022)
• Bachelor of Science (B.Sc. / very good / 05/2021)
• Research Assistant at the Experimental Psychology & Internet Science research group, e.g., in the DFG project e-SNARC: Replicability of Fundamental Results on Spatial-Numerical Associations in Highly Powered Online Experiments (08/2019 – 03/2022)
• Teaching Assistant at the General and Biological Psychology research group of Prof. Dr. Harald Schupp (10/2018 – 03/2019)
• Offering Exam Crash Courses on behalf of the Student Council (2022 & 2021)
• Speaker at the Ideas & Cheers event (12/2021)
• Participant at the 4th Summer School on Internet-based Data Collection and Analysis (09/2021)
• Takeover of the @unikonstanz Instagram channel on behalf of the Communications and Marketing department (05/2018)
• Winner of the Kilometer1 Idea Cup 2019 (07/2019)

• Bachelor of Arts (B.A. / very good / 09/2017)
• Big Data thesis project in cooperation with Jodel (06/2017 – 09/2017)
• Research Assistant at the Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy research group of Prof. Dr. Jennifer Svaldi (10/2014 – 08/2017)
• Research Assistant at the Media Innovation and Media Change research group of Prof. Dr. Klaus Sachs-Hombach (10/2015 – 09/2017)
• Teaching Assistant at the Empirical Media Research research group of Prof. Dr. Guido Zurstiege (10/2016 – 03/2017)
• Deputy Member of the Student Union (10/2016 – 09/2017)
• Host & Producer of Visionen und O-Saft, the first podcast at the Institute of Media Studies, together with Dr. Kiron Patka (03/2016 – 10/2016); format continued by subsequent student cohorts since then; Guest in the 5-year anniversary episode (08/2021)
• Editor at the student journal Kupferblau (04/2015 – 09/2015)
• Later, offering Alumni Workshops to current students (e.g., 11/2022 & 11/2023)

• AI, Web & Social Media (2025)
• Philosophy: Justice (2024)
• Social Learning in Complex Systems (2023)
• Psychotherapy in the Digital Age (2022)
• Internet-Based Data Collection and Analysis (2021)
• Data Science: Machine Learning (2020)