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Dr. Robert Krause

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Researcher

Address
Room KL 23/222c
Telephone
+49 30 838 72622
Email
robert.w.krause@fu-berlin.de

Office hours

Consultation-hour by appointment.

I (he/him) am a postdoc in the Methods and Evaluation/Quality Assurance unit since the end of 2020. In my research I develop methods for analyzing social network structures and their selection and influence effects with individual variables (How are friendship structures built? How does our social environment influence our behavior?). Here I especially work with and on Stochastic Actor-Oriented Models (SAOM) and (Bayesian) Exponential Random Graph Models (ERGM). In this context I contribute to the further development of the RSiena R-package and I am a contributor to the Bergm R-package.

My teaching is also focused on methodology. At the FU I give courses in the Masters Education, Psychology, and Data Science.

My door is always open for questions about methods, social networks, scientific work and ethics, or D&D.

For inquiries about workshops (in English or German), simply send me an email.

Employment

  • since November 2020 Postdoctoral Researcher Methods and Evaluation/Quality Control at the faculty for Education and Psychology, Free University Berlin
  • 2019-2020 Postdoctoral Researcher Institute for Analytical Sociology, Linköping University, Sweden
  • 2015-2019 PhD Candidate Department of Sociology, faculty for Social and Behavioural Sciences, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands

Research Visits

  • 2020 (January) Research visit with Christoph Stadtfeld, Chair for Social Networks, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
  • 2018 (September) Research visit with Alberto Caimo, Dublin Institute of Technology, Dublin, Ireland
  • 2011 (September) Internship with Gerd Gigerenzer, Max-Planck-Institute for Human Development

Education

  • 2015-2019   PhD Student – Dissertation title "Multiple Imputation for Missing Network Data" at Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands (Supervisor: Tom Snijders) – defended 19.12.2019
  • 2013-2015   Research Master Behavioural Science at Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
  • 2010-2013   Bachelor of Science Psychology at Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany

Administration

  • Since 2021 Member of the promotion committee, faculty of Education and Psychology, Free University Berlin
  • Since 2021 Member of the ethics committee, faculty of Education and Psychology, Free University Berlin
  • 2016–2019 Advisor to the ethics committee at the department of Sociology, faculty for Social and Behavioural Sciences, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands
  • 2012–2013 Member of the faculty council (Faculty of Psychology, Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany)

Memberships

Reviewer

Journals

  • Connections
  • International Journal of Medical Informatics
  • SAGE Open
  • Social Networks
  • Social Network Analysis and Mining
  • Social Psychology Quarterly
  • Sociological Focus

Current Teaching – Winter term 2021/2022

  • Seminar: Social Network Analysis – MSc Data Science
  • Seminar: Introduction to quantitative Methods – MA Education

Previous

  • Block-seminar: Research Lab – Network Models – MSc Psychology
  • Lecture: Introduction to quantitative Methods – MA Education
  • Seminar: Social Network Analysis – MSc Computational Social Science
  • Seminar: Introduction to statistics I & II – BA Sociology

Workshops (feel free to reach out)

  • Longitudinal Network Analysis with RSiena (EUSN 2017 and 2021, Sunbelt 2018, RSiena Winterschool 2018)
  • Cross-Sectional Network Analysis with (Bayesian) ERGMs (Münster 2019)
  • Handling Missing Network Data (Sunbelt 2020, EUSN 2021)
  • Introduction to R (Groningen 2018)

Research interests

  • Social network analysis
  • Missing values

 

Research Projects

  • Social Contagion of CV-19 Behaviours

PI: Srebrenka Letina
Members: Karoly Takacs, Karl Wennberg, Abiel Sebhatu, Robert Krause
Grant giver: Formas (Forte)

Time frame: 2020-2022

PI: Karoly Takacs
Members: Dorottya Kisfalusi, Srebrenka Letina, Robert Krause, Flora Samu, Julia Galantai, Eszter Vit, Jose Luis Estevez
Grant giver: European Research Council Horizon 2020 (648693)
time frame: 2015-2021

Journal Articles (peer-reviewed)

Albizua, A., Bennett, E. M., Larocque, G., Krause, R. W., & Pascual, U. (2021). Social networks influence farming practices and agrarian sustainability. Plos ONE, 16(1)

Krause, R. W., Huisman, M., Steglich, C.E.G., & Snijders, T. A. B. (2020). Imputation of missing network data – a detailed comparison. Social Networks, 62, 99-112

Bringmann, L., Elmer, T., Epskamp, S., Krause, R.W., Schoch, D., Wichers, M., Wingman, J., & Snippe, E. (2019). What do centrality measures measure in psychological networks? Journal of Abnormal Psychology.

Krause, R. W., & Caimo, A. (2019, March). Missing Data Augmentation for Bayesian Exponential Random Multi-Graph Models. In International Workshop on Complex Networks (pp. 63-72). Springer, Cham.

Krause, R. W., Huisman, M., Steglich, C.E.G., & Snijders, T. A. B. (2018). Missing network data – a comparison of different Imputation methods. IEEE/ACM Proceedings ASONAM 2018, 159 – 163.

Krause, R. W., Huisman, M., & Snijders, T. A. B. (2018). Multiple imputation for longitudinal network data. Statistica Applicata - Italian Journal of Applied Statistics, 30(1), 33-57. DOI: 10.26398/IJAS.0030-002

Open Science Collaboration (2015). PSYCHOLOGY. Estimating the reproducibility of psychological science. Science, 349(6251), [aac4716]. DOI: 10.1126/science.aac4716

Books

Robert W Krause. Multiple Imputation for Missing Network Data. Dissertation, University of Groningen, The Netherlands. ISBN 978-94-034-1984-8

Books Chapters

Huisman, M. and Krause, R. (2017). Imputation of missing network data. In Alhajj, R. and J., R., editors, Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining, pages 707-715. Springer, New York.