Christoph Goessmann

PhD Candidate @ ETH Zurich
Law, Economics, and Data Science Group (Ash)

🔬 Research

• Data Science
• Equity & Fairness
• Development & Health

🧪 Apps

• SDG Monitor
  A web app that helps uncover und close development data gaps more systematically. Developed in close cooperation with the 🇺🇳 United Nations.

📄 Publications & Working Papers

• (1) Pulse of Progress: The State of Global SDG Data in 2023
  with Priscilla Idele, Kersten Jauer, Martin Loinig, Claire Melamed, and Tomas Zak
  United Nations, 15 September 2023
  

• (2) Cable news and COVID-19 vaccine uptake
  with Matteo Pinna and Léo Picard
  Scientific Reports 12, 16804
  → Replication package
  🏆 Journal Top 100 - 2022 (out of > 21k)
  
  Media Coverage: The New York Times, The Washington Post (1), The Washington Post (2), The Atlantic, VoxEU.org Column/Podcast, MSNBC

• (3) In-group bias in the Indian judiciary: Evidence from 5 million criminal cases
  with Elliott Ash, Sam Asher, Aditi Bhowmick, Sandeep Bhupatiraju, Daniel Chen, Tanaya Devi, Paul Novosad, and Bilal Siddiqi
  R&R at Review of Economics and Statistics (RESTAT)
  → Download our data → Try our gender classifier for Indian names → Check out our code
  🏆 Best Paper at ACM SIGCAS Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies (COMPASS) '21
  
  Media Coverage: Hindustan Times, The Telegraph (India), The Indian Express, Economic & Political Weekly, Bar and Bench, The Print

• (4) Scaling Laws: Legal and Social Complexity in U.S. Localities
  with Elliott Ash and Suresh Naidu
  Forthcoming in the "Complexity Science Approach to Law and Governance" issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A
  

🎓 CV

Education

• 2020-
  PhD Candidate
  (ETH Zurich)
• 2019
  MSc Biomedical Engineering
  (ETH Zurich)
• 2017/18
  Study Abroad
  (Duke University)
• 2017
  BSc Physics
  (Humboldt Univ. of Berlin)

Experience

• 2023
  Data Scientist
  (United Nations)
• 2022
  Analyst
  (United Nations)
• 2021-22
  Data Science Fellow
  (United Nations)
• 2019-21
  Data Engineer
  (World Bank DE JURE)
• 2010-17
  IT Project Lead
  

Teaching

• S2024
  Data Science for Public Policy:
  From Econometrics to AI
• S2023
  Big Data for Public Policy
• F2022
  Technology and Public Policy (CAS TPP)
• F2020
  Data Science for Decision-Making
• S2020
  Big Data for Public Policy

Coding

❤️ Python + PostgreSQL ❤️

📬 Contact

ETH Zurich
Center for Law & Economics
IFW Building, Room E46
Haldeneggsteig 4
8092 Zurich, Switzerland

christoph.goessmann[at]gess.ethz.ch

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