Seraphine Maerz
Senior Lecturer
University of Melbourne
Dr Seraphine F. Maerz is a Senior Lecturer in Political Science (Research Methods) at the University of Melbourne. Her research focuses on democracy, autocratization, political communication, and computational social science, with a particular interest in how political discourse relates to democratic resilience. She develops computational and AI-assisted methods for analysing large-scale political text and is a co-founder of QuantLab as well as Director of the V-Dem regional center for Australia and New Zealand.
2020-2021: Deputy Director of the V-Dem Institute.
2019-2021: Assistant Professor, V-Dem Institute & Department of Political Science