Elisabeth Steffen is a researcher at the Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft (HTW) Berlin. Her research interests include the intersections between natural language processing, supervised machine learning algorithms and cultural, social, and political studies. This interdisciplinary focus is also reflected in her academic education as both a computer scientist (BA in Computer Science and Business Administration, HTW – University of Applied Sciences Berlin), and anthropologist of contemporary European societies (MA in European Ethnology, Humboldt University Berlin).