Team

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).

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.

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.

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.