Hi, I'm Hendrik! I'm a PhD Student at the
Institute for Analytical Sociology (IAS)
at Linköping University, Sweden.
Curriculum Vitae
Political Sociology • Computational Social Sciences • Analytical Sociology • Computational Text Analysis
My dissertation is on economic policymaking in U.S. Congress. I try to understand how individual-level interactions in Congress have contributed to changes in the economic framework of the U.S. and the shared understanding of the economy. My aim is to allow sociological text analysis to use speech acts as a tool of analysis.
Academic Research
I am affiliated with the Institute for Analytical Sociology (IAS), Linköping University, Sweden. My research intersects with political and economic sociology, text analysis and computational social sciences. Find out at which conferences I'll be this year, and see my blog for bits and pieces on everything academic.
Conferences 2025
Tap to view detailsMost Recent Article: This is the Age of Bullies
Published March 17th, 2025
Abstract: Liberal democracy is on decline. What Trump exposes in the U.S. is just a very crass version of a more general trend that I believe is common around the world. We are entering an age of strong-man politics, where rulers in representative systems do not feel bound by their electorate as much as they did just thirty years ago. And where political power becomes a more sought-after commodity, bullies are not far.
Open Source development
When I'm not analyzing policymaking and individual behavior in parliaments, I advocate for Open Source. Since at least 2006 I have been a user, supporter, and contributor to Free and Open Source Software (FOSS).
My main project is Zettlr. It is a "one-stop publication workbench" targeted at students and researchers in the arts and humanities. I started working on it in 2017 and have been the project lead ever since.
After the Twitter-exodus began, I started the go-to list for finding your peers, Academics on Mastodon. It lists hundreds of people from dozens of fields and Mastodon instances so that you can orient yourself in this new social media.
You can find more info on my involvement with software on my GitHub profile.