Welcome to my website!

I am Professor for Data Science in Economics at the Ruhr University of Bochum, an Affiliate at the Data Science Institute (DSI) at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and an Associate Fellow at the Digital Futures at Work Research Centre (Digit) at the University of Sussex. From 2017-2019 I was a Marie Curie Junior Research Fellow at Durham University.

My Research addresses Data Science, Big Data Analyses, NLP, Digital Transformation, Artificial Intelligence, Automation, Innovation Economics, Regional Economics, Labour Economics, Demography, International Economics and Firm Dynamics.

In particular, I have been working extensively with the official German firm data on various projects (data based on the whole population of firms/ plants in the German economy).
You can find my papers on the following websites, or on Researchgate or SSRN.
My LinkedIn account is here.

Contact details:
Prof. Dr. Astrid Krenz
Ruhr University Bochum
Department of Management and Economics
Universitaetsstrasse 150
Room GD 02 207
44801 Bochum
Germany
E-mail: astrid [dot] krenz [at] ruhr [minus] uni [minus] bochum [dot] de