Hi, my name is Wienke. Never heard before? Wienke Strathern. Neither? Let’s listen how to pronounce it.

Hi, I am a Managing Consultant and Researcher with expertise in quantitative and qualitative methods and a focus on computational approaches.
I have more than seven years of academic research experience and over three years in consulting. As Managing Consultant and Unit Manager at ]init[ in Munich, I lead a cross-functional team with disciplinary responsibility and develop digital communication strategies for public sector clients. My work focuses on integrating data analytics into strategic consulting for eGovernment and eHealth. Previously, as a Professional Data and AI Consultant, I designed analytical frameworks to evaluate citizen feedback on participation platforms and applied computational methods for large-scale text and network analysis.
My PhD was focused on structures and dynamics in communication conflicts in Social Media networks. My adviser was Jürgen Pfeffer at the Computational Social Science Lab at Technical University of Munich. My work combines communication science and data analysis to examine how digital technologies shape public discourse and participation. I develop computational approaches to analyze civic discourse in the online world. I analyze large-scale text data with Natural Language Processing (NLP), identify patterns, and combine these with experimental studies to understand how results from language models relate to real-world behavior.
Experienced in working with complex, high-volume datasets using computational and statistical approaches to support evidence-based communication and policy design.
Areas of expertise:
• Communication Science and Computational Methods
• Critical Data Studies
• AI and Civic Discourse
• Network Science
• Online Participation and Digital Platforms