# Will Lowe (@conjugateprior.org)

Profile: https://sifa.id/p/conjugateprior.org
Headline: Statistics. Research methods. That kind of thing.
Website: https://conjugateprior.org

## About

I work on measurement and causal inference, mostly with applications to political science, policy, and economics at the Data Science Lab of the Hertie School of Governance, a small policy-oriented university in Berlin.

## Experience

- **Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University** (2000 – 2003)
- **Research Associate at Tufts University** (1999 – 2000)
- **Technical Architect at Wordmap** (2003 – 2006)
- **Senior Research Scientist at Hertie School** (2020 – present)
- **Senior Research Specialist at Princeton University** (2015 – 2020)
- **Senior Researcher at MZES, University of Mannheim** (2011 – 2015)
- **Assistant Professor of Research Methods at Maastricht University** (2009 – 2011)
- **Research Fellow at Methods and Data Institute** (2006 – 2009)
- **Researcher at WCFIA, Harvard University** (2005 – 2005)
- **Research Fellow at Department of Political Science, Trinity College Dublin** (2004 – 2005)
- **Visiting Fellow at London School of Economics and Political Science** (2012 – 2015)

## Education

- **University of Edinburgh** — PhD, Cognitive Science (1996 – 2001)
- **University of Edinburgh** — MSc, Cognitive Science and Natural Language Processing (1995 – 1996)
- **University of Warwick** — BA, Philosophy (1992 – 1995)

## Skills

- Causal inference
- Statistics
- Java
- R
- Consulting
- Teaching
- Software Project Management
- Research
- SQL
- Python
- Data Visualization

## Projects

- **ICC Legal Tools Project** — https://www.legal-tools.org
- **Text as Data Association**
  Former Board member

## Publications

- Google Scholar  — tl;dr cites > 6300, h = 29 (https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=izJ_NzcAAAAJ)

## Honors and awards

- Best paper award — German Society for Online Research (GOR)
- David A. Lake best paper award — International Political Economy Society (IPES)
- Winning paper: NLP Unshared Task in PoliInformatics — American Computational Linguistics Society (ACL)

## Languages

- English (native)
- German (limited_working)

## Other profiles

- website: https://conjugateprior.org
- linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/conjugateprior/