{"id":558,"date":"2025-04-26T16:10:04","date_gmt":"2025-04-26T16:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/philippschmid.org\/?page_id=558"},"modified":"2025-04-26T17:06:28","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T17:06:28","slug":"team","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/philippschmid.org\/?page_id=558","title":{"rendered":"Team"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">PhD candidates<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-grid wp-container-core-group-is-layout-6059c0ab wp-block-group-is-layout-grid\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized wp-container-content-574e1f9d\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"493\" height=\"634\" src=\"https:\/\/philippschmid.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/hs-klein.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-559\" style=\"width:210px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/philippschmid.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/hs-klein.png 493w, https:\/\/philippschmid.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/hs-klein-233x300.png 233w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 493px) 100vw, 493px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-container-content-fb931021\"><strong>Paul Ballot <\/strong>(MSc) has earned degrees in Psychology and Communication Science at the University of Vienna, Social Influence Psychology at Utrecht University and Political Communication (cum laude) at the University of Amsterdam. He is an award-winning communication specialist and a PhD candidate at Radboud University\u2019s Centre for Language Studies and iHub, an interdisciplinary hub on the digitalisation of society. As part of the Digital Influence Group, he researches the role of disinformation, conspiracies, artificial agents and generative AI in the information space as well as potential mechanisms behind LLM-driven interventions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-content-justification-left is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-f56a869c wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-grid wp-container-core-group-is-layout-6be84c55 wp-block-group-is-layout-grid\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"755\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/philippschmid.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-1-755x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-561\" style=\"width:213px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/philippschmid.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-1-755x1024.png 755w, https:\/\/philippschmid.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-1-221x300.png 221w, https:\/\/philippschmid.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-1-768x1041.png 768w, https:\/\/philippschmid.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-1-885x1200.png 885w, https:\/\/philippschmid.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-1.png 1018w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 755px) 100vw, 755px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-container-content-5d1156ae\"><strong>Yana van de Sande<\/strong> is a PhD candidate at Radboud University, affiliated with iHub and the Centre for Language Studies (CLS), working on misinformation and deception in the online information ecosystem. She has a background in artificial intelligence and social science and works at the intersection of both to better understand how information ecosystems function and how reality is constructed. Some of her current research projects include misinformation in different species, deception through uncertainty, and investigating how truth is constructed within artificial intelligence algorithms.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Research staff<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-grid wp-container-core-group-is-layout-6be84c55 wp-block-group-is-layout-grid\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"702\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/philippschmid.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/schmitz_jule-1-702x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-563\" style=\"width:216px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/philippschmid.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/schmitz_jule-1-702x1024.jpg 702w, https:\/\/philippschmid.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/schmitz_jule-1-206x300.jpg 206w, https:\/\/philippschmid.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/schmitz_jule-1-768x1120.jpg 768w, https:\/\/philippschmid.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/schmitz_jule-1-1054x1536.jpg 1054w, https:\/\/philippschmid.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/schmitz_jule-1-823x1200.jpg 823w, https:\/\/philippschmid.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/schmitz_jule-1.jpg 1372w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 702px) 100vw, 702px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-container-content-5d1156ae\"><strong>Jule Schmitz <\/strong>supports the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rki.de\/DE\/Themen\/Infektionskrankheiten\/Impfen\/Forschungsprojekte\/InvestHPV\/InvestHPV.html\">InveSt HPV project at the Robert Koch-Institute<\/a> which aims to increase HPV vaccination rates in Germany. Her research focuses on physician-patient communication in the context of planetary health issues. Overall, her interests lie in promoting healthy and climate-friendly behaviors and in understanding their drivers. Jule studied Health Communication in Erfurt and Public Relations in Hanover.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-ad2f72ca wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\"><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PhD candidates Paul Ballot (MSc) has earned degrees in Psychology and Communication Science at the University of Vienna, Social Influence Psychology at Utrecht University and Political Communication (cum laude) at the University of Amsterdam. He is an award-winning communication specialist and a PhD candidate at Radboud University\u2019s Centre for Language Studies and iHub, an interdisciplinary &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/philippschmid.org\/?page_id=558\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Team&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-558","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philippschmid.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philippschmid.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philippschmid.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philippschmid.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philippschmid.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=558"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/philippschmid.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":583,"href":"https:\/\/philippschmid.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/558\/revisions\/583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philippschmid.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}