Research Intern

Erik Quint

Erik joined the group as a Master’s student in fall 2026. He holds a BSc in Psychology and is currently pursuing an MSc in Psychology: Cognitive-Affective Neuroscience at TUD Dresden University of Technology. At SynoSys, he works at the intersection of psychology and computational social science, using large language models to identify and quantify psychological constructs in large-scale text data. He applies this approach in a project investigating radicalisation in digital spaces.

Interests

• Large Language Models
• Computational Social Science
• Psychological Methodology
• Radicalisation in Digital Spaces

Education

• Ongoing MSc in Psychology: Cognitive-Affective Neuroscience, TUD Dresden University of Technology
• 2025 BSc in Psychology, University of Hagen