Researcher and Lecturer at the Chair for Political Science, in particular Political Theory
Helmut-Schmidt-Universität
Building H1, Room 1365
Holstenhofweg 85
22043 Hamburg
E-Mail: christoph [dot] deppe [at] hsu-hh.de
Telephone: +49-40-6541-2604
Fax: +49-40-6541-3370
Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@krycztof
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Profiles: Research Gate, Google Scholar, Open HSU
Office hours: Thursday, 09:00-10:00.
CV
since January 2022
Researcher and Lecturer at the Chair for Political Science, in particular Political Theory at Helmut Schmidt University / University of the Federal Armed Forces Hamburg
06/2021 – 12/2021
Parental leave
2020 – 06/2021
Doctoral Research Assistant at the Chair for Political Science, in particular Political Theory at Helmut Schmidt University / University of the Federal Armed Forces Hamburg
2017 – 2020
Doctoral Research Assistant at the Chair for Political Science, in particular Political Theory and at the Chair for Political Science, especially Comparative Government at Helmut Schmidt University / University of the Federal Armed Forces Hamburg
2015 – 2017
M.A. Political Science, University of Hamburg
Thesis: “From Copenhagen to Paris:
Investigating success in multilateral climate negotiations”
2016
Student Assistant, Prof. Dr. Heike Klüver, Professor for Comparative Politics, University of Hamburg
2015 – 2017
Student Assistant, Prof. Dr. Dr. Lydia Mechtenberg, Chair of Economics, in particular Microeconomics, University of Hamburg
2015
B.A. Political Science, University of Hamburg
2014 – 2015
Studying abroad, 2 Semesters, University of Oslo
2014
Student Tutor, Seminar “Methods of Empirical Social Research”, Summer Semester 2014, Prof. Dr. Stefanie Kley, Professor for Ecologization and Quantitative Methods of Social Research, University of Hamburg
2012
Studying abroad, 1 Semester, National University of Singapore
Research Interests
Democratic Systems
Parliaments (and Parliamentary Records)
Disinformation
Interest Groups and Lobbying
Quantitative Text Analysis (Text Mining)
Comparative Politics
Publications, Presentations and Posters
Fleuß, Dannica and Christoph Deppe: Transmissions, Decisions, Discourses – A Methodological Framework for Measuring and Comparing Democratic Innovations’ Policy-Impact(s). Swiss Political Science Review. https://doi.org/10.1111/spsr.12657
Deppe, Christoph: “Gulf of America: rewriting the rules of public discourse”. The Loop – ECPR’s Political Science Blog. 08.04.2025. https://theloop.ecpr.eu/gulf-of-america-how-the-spread-of-lies-is-reshaping-democracy/
Deppe, Christoph: “Hybrid Threats and Disinformation” – Presentation and discussion. BAKS special seminar on disinformation. January 2025. Federal Academy for Security Policy, Berlin, Germany.
Deppe, Christoph and Gary S. Schaal: „Cognitive Warfare: A Conceptual Analysis of the NATO ACT Cognitive Warfare Exploratory Concept“. Frontiers in Big Data. 7:1452129. https://doi.org/10.3389/fdata.2024.1452129
Deppe, Christoph and Gary S. Schaal: „Understanding the Impact of Disinformation on Democratic Institutions“ – Panel Chair and Discussant. 29. DVPW-Kongress, 24.-27. September 2024, Georg-August-University Göttingen, Germany
Deppe, Christoph: “Hybrid Threats and Disinformation” – Presentation and discussion. BAKS core seminar. June 2024. Federal Academy for Security Policy, Berlin, Germany.
Kapteina, Benedikt und Christoph Deppe: “Corporate Responses to Disinformation: Understanding Activities and Motivations Surrounding a European Election” – Presentation and discussion. Colloquium Political Science. June 2024. University of the Federal Armed Forces, Hamburg, Germany.
Deppe, Christoph, Alexandru Fotescu, and Gary S. Schaal: “The understanding of Cognitive Warfare in comparative perspective: Taking stock and bridging the gap to extant literatures.” – Full conference paper. NATO STO Human Factors and Medicine (HFM) Panel HFM-361, Symposium on” Mitigating and Responding to Cognitive Warfare”, 13-14 November 2023, Madrid, Spain. NATO Science and Technology Organization (STO), 2024.
Deppe, Christoph “The Role of Disinformation in Cognitive Warfare, Foreign Information Manipulation Interference, and Hybrid Threats: Implications for Democratic Systems” – Presentation and Discussion. NESSI Fall Conference 2023. November 2023. University of the Federal Armed Forces, Hamburg, Germany.
Deppe, Christoph: “Disinformation In Cognitive Warfare, Foreign Information Manipulation And Interference, And Hybrid Threats”. The Defence Horizon Journal. 16.10.2023. ISSN 2710-3722. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10005172 https://www.thedefencehorizon.org/post/disinformation-cognitive-warfare-hybrid-threats
Deppe, Christoph, Alexandru Fotescu, and Gary S. Schaal. “The understanding of Cognitive Warfare in comparative perspective: Taking stock and bridging the gap to extant literatures.” – Presentation and discussion. NATO STO Human Factors and Medicine (HFM) Panel HFM-361, Symposium on” Mitigating and Responding to Cognitive Warfare”, 13-14 November 2023, Madrid, Spain. NATO Science and Technology Organization (STO), 2024.
Deppe, Christoph “The Role of Disinformation in Cognitive Warfare, Foreign Information Manipulation Interference, and Hybrid Threats” – Presentation and discussion. Theresan Military-Academic Forum 2023. 06.-10. November 2023. Theresan Military Academy, Wiener Neustadt, Austria.
Deppe, Christoph and Schaal, Gary S.: “Vernetzte Desinformationskampangen: Der Fall Nawalny” – Presentation and Discussion. Political Climate Change: Regional, European and Global Comparative Perspectives. 22-23 September 2022. European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), Germany.
Deppe, Christoph and Schaal, Gary S.: “Alexei Navalny and the campaign of disinformation conducted by Russia Today”. The Loop – ECPR’s Political Science Blog. 02.06.2022. https://theloop.ecpr.eu/alexei-navalny-and-the-campaign-of-disinformation-conducted-by-russia-today/
Deppe, Christoph and Schaal, Gary S.: “Vernetzte Desinformationskampangen: Der Fall Nawalny”. GIDSresearch 01/2022 | 10. Mai 2022 | ISSN 2699-4380. https://gids-hamburg.de/vernetzte-desinformationskampagnen/
Fleuß, Dannica and Deppe, Christoph: „Assessing „Communication Flows“ An Integrated Framework for Measuring Transmissions between Democratic Innovations and Empowered Institutions“ – Presentation and Discussion. PSA Participatiory and Deliberative Democracy Specialist Group’s Webinar Series 2020. Webinar 4: Participartory Governance – How Representative Systems Interact with Representative Institutions. Link to video: https://deliberativehub.wordpress.com/2020/06/12/pdd-webinar-series/
Deppe, Christoph: The Analytical Capacities of Vector-Based Text Analysis Methods in Political Science.
– Presentation and Working Paper.Scientific colloquium “Democracy Research”. Winter Trimester 2020. Helmut-Schmidt-University/ University of the Federal Armed Forces. Hamburg, Germany.
Deppe, Christoph: „Direct Democratic Institutions in Representative Political Systems: An Investigation of the German State Parliaments“ – Invited poster and slam-presentation.
CLARIN Annual Conference 2019 in Leipzig, Germany
PhD-students poster session -and- PhD-students poster slam presentation.
Link to Poster: clarin.eu/sites/default/files/clarin2019_phdposter_4_deppe.pdf
Fleuß, Dannica and Deppe, Christoph: „Assessing Transmissions: An Empirical Framework for Evaluating Democratic Innovations’ Impact on Collectively-Binding Decision-Making“ – Presentation.
ECPR General Conference 2019 (Wrocław, Poland)
Section: Democratic Innovations: Responding to Great Challenges. Panel: Evaluating Democratic Innovations.
Deppe, Christoph: „Direct Democratic Institutions in Representative Political Systems: An Investigation of the German State Parliaments“ – Presentation and Symposium participation.
Doctoral Consortium at #eurocss Symposium 2019
European Symposium Series on Societal Challenges in Computational Social Science 2019: Polarization and Radicalization. Zurich, Switzerland.
Deppe, Christoph: „The Analytical Capacities of Vector-Based Text Analysis Methods in Political Science“ – Presentation.
SPSA Annual Conference 2019 & Dreiländertagung. Zurich, Switzerland.
Panel „Die Glaubwürdigkeit empirischer politikwissenschaftlicher Forschung I und II“
Vortrag in Panel 2: Datentransparenz, Replikation, p-Hacking, Publikationsbias und die Glaubwürdigkeit empirischer politikwissenschaftlicher Forschung (I)
Schaal, Gary S. / Deppe, Christoph / Wilhelm, Fränze / Fleuß, Dannica An integrated research framework for the analysis of Understandings of Democracy
Writers Conference „Measuring Understanding of Democracy: Discussing Solutions for Methodological Fallacies.” Institut für Sozialwissenschaften, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. 20.-21. August 2018.
Grotz, Florian / Schaal, Gary S. / Deppe, Christoph: „Cure for Democratic Malaise or Illness Accelerator? Parliamentary Debates on Direct Democracy in the German Länder” – Presentation and Working Paper.2018 ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops. Nicosia, Cyprus.
Workshop: Can Participatory Reforms Save Representative Democracy?
Teaching
Spring trimester 2025
M.A. Seminar “Democracy and Digitalization: Algorithmic Methods for Democracy Research”
Winter trimester 2025
M.A. Seminar “Democracy and Digitalization: Analogue and Digital Theories of Democracy”
Fall trimester 2024
B.A. Seminar “Techniques of Scientific Work”
Spring trimester 2024
M.A. Seminar “Democracy and Digitalization: Algorithmic Methods for Democracy Research”
Fall trimester 2023
B.A. Seminar “Techniques of Scientific Work”
Spring trimester 2023
M.A. Seminar “Democracy and Digitalization: Algorithmic Methods for Democracy Research”
Winter trimester 2023
B.A. Seminar “Representation of Political Interests in Society: The Intermediary System. Interest Groups in Germany and the European Union.”
Fall trimester 2022
B.A. Seminar “Techniques of Scientific Work”, Two Groups.
Spring trimester 2022
M.A. Seminar “Democracy and Digitalization: Algorithmic Methods for Democracy Research” (with Prof. Gary S. Schaal)
Spring trimester 2021
M.A. Seminar “Democracy and Digitalization: Algorithmic Methods for Democracy Research” (with Prof. Gary S. Schaal)
Fall trimester 2020
B.A. Seminar “Techniques of Scientific Work”
Spring trimester 2020
M.A. Seminar “Democracy and Digitalization: Algorithmic Methods for Democracy Research” (with Prof. Gary S. Schaal)
Fall trimester 2019
B.A. Seminar “Techniques of Scientific Work”
Winter trimester 2019
B.A. Seminar “Representation of Political Interests in Society: The Intermediary System. Interest Groups in Germany and the European Union.”
Fall trimester 2018
B.A. Exercise “Methods of Scientific Work”
Academic self-administration
since 2019
Senate Committee for Teaching and Studies (SenA LuSt)
Representative for Academic Staff WiSo Faculty
Memberships
German Political Science Association (GPSA) / Deutsche Vereinigung für Politikwissenschaft (DVPW)
Letzte Änderung: 8. April 2025