Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Bremen. Researcher at the Comparative Research Center “The Global Dynamics of Social Policy”. Principal Investigator of the research project, “The Reciprocal Relationship of Public Opinion and Social Policy”. Principal Investigator of “The Crowdsourced Replication Initiative”. Open Science advocate. Open Science Fellow Alumnus at Wikimedia with the project, “Giving the Results back to the Crowd”. User of preprints. Crowdsourcing and Mertonian-norm advocate. Author of the open science and crowdsourcing blog “Crowdid”.