Team

Gal Ron is a PhD student at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is interested in populist rhetoric, the role of sentiments in political discourse, and symbolic representation.

Yael is an assistant professor at the Department of Sociology, Political Science and Communication, the Open University of Israel. Her research interests include discourse, identities, and values, and her research examines how these influence political behaviors, sense of representation, and public opinion. In her work, Yael utilizes both qualitative and quantitative methods, including text and network analysis.

Dror Markus is currently a post-doc with the PRODIGI project at the University of Zurich's Department of Political Science. His doctoral research while at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem examined the structures and dynamics of "Media Storms" using computational methods. His research interests are in attention dynamics, information-age politics, AI governance and safety, computational methodology (including text-as-data methods and LLM agents for social science simulation).

Naama Rivlin-Angert is a postdoctoral researcher at the ERC project Varieties of Nationalism Shape Our Polarized Politics and a Research Fellow at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her work combines political science with computational social science (CSS) methods to explore how political discourse and identity interact. She studies how identity dynamics both shape and are shaped by political communication, integrating insights from political psychology, behavior, and public opinion research.  

Guy Mor-Lan is a PhD student at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His main research interests include machine learning applications in computational social science and the study of political polarization, as well as natural language processing for Hebrew and spoken Arabic.

Vered Porzycki is a PhD student at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her main research interests are gender, political discourse analysis and political representation.

Effi Levi is a PhD candidate in computer science and a consultant in the fields of machine learning, natural language processing (NLP) and computer vision. His main research interests are structured prediction in NLP and Hebrew language processing.

Avishai Green is a postdoctoral researcher in the Political Science Department at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research focuses on values in political communication, particularly truthfulness, sincerity, and authenticity. Methodologically, he employs Natural Language Processing (NLP) text-analysis as well as qualitative methods in studying both regular user’s social media posts and politician’s speeches.

Roni Shapira is a second-year MA Political Science student at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is interested in nationalism, political discourse, polarization and conflicts. 

Uri Mishmar is a second-year MA Political Science student at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is interested in conflicting political narratives and the intersection between politics and literature. 

Tamar Tadmor is a third year BA student, studying political science and communication. Her main research interests are political polarization on social media and voter behavior.