Kravets Anna M.A.
🚀 Sociologist | AI & Simulation Expert
curriculum vitae
Jobs
RESEARCHER, German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence, Trier, Germany — 10.2023-Present
Full-time researcher at the German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) hosted by the University of Trier
SOCIAL ENTREPRENEUR, Berlin Startup Scholarship, Berlin, Germany — 11.2022-4.2023
Developing a startup idea (BreakIce) incl. a business model and a minimum viable product
URBAN SOCIOLOGY RESEARCH ASSISTANT, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany — 7.2019-10.2022
Working at the Department of Urban Sociology and assisting research projects: "Building Blocks for a new social living" (Dr. Andrej Holm), "Perception of safety at Kottbusser Tor" (Prof. Dr. Talja Blokland), and "Urban Life Amidst Covid-19" (Prof. Dr. Talja Blokland)
SURVEY ENUMERATOR, Berlin-Brandenburg Office for Statistics, Berlin, Germany — 05.2022-06.2022
Conducting household surveys as Survey Commissioner for the 2022 German nationwide census, including independent contact with respondents, on-site data collection and documentation of the collected information.
POLITICAL STUDIES RESEARCH ASSISTANT, Hertie School of Governance, Berlin, Germany — 10.2018-8.2019
Research on Internet Governance, specifically on privacy protection and content control
Education
Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany — MA Global Studies Programme — 4.2017-10.2022
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 and philosophy
Study abroad within the programme:
University of Pretoria, South Africa (1 semester, 2017): postcolonial theory and cultural dynamics in the Global South
Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India (1 semester, 2018): gender studies, Indian social thought and 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
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, Vietnam (1 semester, 2015–2016), focus on 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, basic French and Greek