Helge Marahrens (he/him) is a computational social scientist with a substantive focus on globalization and inequality. He recently finished his dissertation in Sociology at Indiana University, where he also earned a MS in Applied Statistics. In 2021, Marahrens interned at Facebook’s core data science group.

In his dissertation and in various related projects, he takes a broad-scale view of inequality and power to understand to what extend globalization reproduces existing hierarchies between cities, regions, and nations (e.g. between Global North/South). Marahrens has taught several workshops in Python that introduce students and faculty to computational methods; including how to collect data using webscraping and APIs, predictive modelling, text mining, and network methods. At Indiana University, he collaborated with the Complex Networks and Systems Center to implement network similarity algorithms in Python.