Kravets Anna M.A.
Sociologist & AI Consultant | Socio-Technical Transformation
curriculum vitae
Jobs
RESEARCHER, German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Trier, Germany — 10.2023-Present
AI researcher and sociologist conducting agent-based modeling and cognitive simulations for socio-technical transformation, sustainable mobility, industrial decarbonisation, and participatory decision support in interdisciplinary projects.
SOCIAL ENTREPRENEUR, Berlin Startup Scholarship, Berlin, Germany — 11.2022-4.2023
Led social entrepreneurship project addressing student isolation using user-centered design, Agile/Lean methods, AI tools, and MVP development, managing stakeholders, strategy, and team coordination.
PROJECT ASSISTANT, elda, Berlin, Germany — 9.2022-10.2023
Contributed to Digital Media Lab Ukraine, coordinating online sessions, managing participants, and supporting digital education and media literacy initiatives through virtual event execution.
URBAN SOCIOLOGY RESEARCH ASSISTANT, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany — 7.2019-10.2022
Supported empirical research on urban transformation, social networks, and policy with Prof. Dr. Talja Blokland and Dr. Andrej Holm, conducting literature reviews, interviews, surveys, and quantitative/qualitative data analysis. Contributed to publications, stakeholder workshops, and research reporting using STATA, survey design, and data visualizations.
SURVEY ENUMERATOR, Berlin-Brandenburg Office for Statistics, Berlin, Germany — 05.2022-06.2022
Survey Commissioner for 2022 German census, managed respondent engagement, on-site data collection, and data documentation to support nationwide social and demographic research.
POLITICAL STUDIES RESEARCH ASSISTANT, Hertie School of Governance, Berlin, Germany — 10.2018-8.2019
Analyzed qualitative data on internet governance and data protection, compared EU and international regulations, and supported case studies and publications in digital policy research.
Education
Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany — MA Global Studies Programme — 4.2017-10.2022
Key courses: theories of globalisation, modern social theory, methods of social sciences, global public spheres, applied methodology, modernisation and development, critical development studies, gender studies, cultural studies, economics, international relations, anthropology, ethnography, fieldwork, philosophy. Study abroad: University of Pretoria, South Africa (1 semester, 2017): postcolonial theory and cultural dynamics in the Global South, contemporary philosophy; Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India (1 semester, 2018): gender studies, Indian social thought, discrimination theory.
Thesis: Localising of the global: How international students are made subjects at Studienkolleg? Applying the lens of Foucault to the Studienkolleg
Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany — BA Social Sciences — 10.2013-03.2017
Key courses: methods of social sciences, sociological theory, political theory, microsociology and demography, political system of the Federal Republic of Germany, social structure and diversity, comparative politics and international relations, statistics, methods of empirical research, cities and diversity, sociology of work, sociology of gender relations, urban and regional sociology, diversity and social conflict, archival research. Study abroad: Vietnam National University, Hanoi (1 semester, 2015–2016): international relations.
Thesis: Ethical regulations of research involving human subjects: comparing the perspective of institutions regulating the conduct of clinical research to the perspective of human subjects
Certifications
Google Project Management Specialisation Certificate, Google Career Certificates (online) — completed on 8.04.2025
Project management according to PMI standards, covering the full project life cycle from initiation to closure, including project scoping, scheduling and budgeting, risk management and change control, stakeholder and team communication, and the application of agile and Scrum methods alongside traditional approaches.
Data Science, LeWagon (Berlin, Germany) — 7.2023-9.2023
Data analytics and Python programming for data science; applied machine learning and deep learning workflows (data preparation, model selection, evaluation and fine-tuning); development and deployment of predictive models and simple AI applications using libraries such as Pandas, NumPy, scikit-learn and TensorFlow; data storytelling and presentation.
Google IT Support Specialisation Certificate, Google Career Certificates (online) — completed on 20.01.2022
IT support fundamentals including troubleshooting and customer service, computer hardware, operating systems (Windows and Linux), computer networking, system administration and IT infrastructure services, and basic IT security, with practical use of tools such as the command line, DNS and remote access for diagnosing and resolving technical issues.
Projects
Education | IT Course for Women, Ukrainer in Trier | 2024 – 2025| Coordinating and teaching a fundamentals-of-IT programme (web basics, digital security) for Ukrainian women
Music | Synth-Ambient Noise Experiments | 2023 – present | Producing modular-synth compositions exploring generative textures; releasing somewhere on the World Wide Web
Data Science | Ticket-Control Hot-Spot Predictor (LeWagon capstone) | 2023 | Scraped crowd-sourced Telegram alerts, applied fuzzy string-matching and a Random-Forest model to forecast BVG fare-inspection locations; delivered results via Streamlit map
Visual Art | Cables.gl Visuals | 2023 | Created abstract, interactive visuals on cables.gl
Visual Art | Video-Art Archive | 2012 – 2020 | Curated short experimental HDV films on memory and embodied space; one concept selected for Lars von Trier’s GESAMT - Disaster 501: What Happened To Man (directed by Jenle Hallund) project (2012)
Languages: Fluent German, English and Ukrainian, advanced French, and basic Greek