Jakob Wedemeyer (prev. Lochner) is a PhD student in the Research Department 4 - Complexity Science.
He is a member of the working group Societal Transition and Well-being.
Contact
14412 Potsdam
ORCID
- Climate impacts on society, i.e. migration behaviour
- Media attention to climate change
- Causal inference (fixed effects models)
- Machine learning (natural language processing, supervised and unsupervised learning...)
Wedemeyer J.H., Kotz M., Stechemesser A., Wenz L. Evidence for climate-induced migration from poor to rich regions globally (under review)
Schirmag T., Wedemeyer J.H., Stechemesser A., Wenz L. Neural topic modeling reveals German television’s climate change coverage. Nature's Communications Earth & Environment (2025).
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Lochner, J.H., Stechemesser, A. & Wenz, L. Climate summits and protests have a strong impact on climate change media coverage in Germany. Nature's Communications Earth & Environment (2024).
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Lochner*, J. H./Donges*, J. F., Kitzmann, N. H., Heitzig, J., Lehmann, S., Wiedermann, M., and Vollmer, J. (2021). Dose-response functions and surrogate models for exploring social contagion in the Copenhagen Networks Study. European Physical Journal Special Topics (2021).
* shared lead authorship.
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