B.A. and M.A. in History and Art History (2010–2016) at Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, the University of Edinburgh and the Tel Aviv University of Israel. Student assistant in the fields of History of Science and Technology and Holocaust Studies. Research assistant (2017–2020) in the Department of Computational Social Science and Big Data at the Bavarian School of Public Policy at the Technical University of Munich and PhD (2022) in Computational History at the intersection of history and computer science.
Since October 2021 member of the academic staff at the IEG in the Digital Historical Research Unit | DH Lab.
Computational History / Digital History
Theories and methods of the Digital Humanities, especially (Historical) Network Research and Text Mining
Jewish History
Holocaust Studies
Modern and Contemporary History
Publications (peer-reviewed)
Petz, Cindarella (2022). On Combining Network Research and Computational Methods on Historical Research Questions and its Implications for the Digital Humanities. Dissertation at the TUM School of Social Sciences and Technology.
http://mediatum.ub.tum.de/?id=1624881.
Petz, Cindarella & Ghawi, Raji & Pfeffer, Jürgen (2022). Tracking the Evolution of Communities in a Social Network of Intellectual Influences. Journal of Historical Network Research 2022, vol. 7, number 1, pp. 114– 154. DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5072/jhnr.v7i1.146.
Petz, Cindarella & Pfeffer, Jürgen (2021). Configuration to Conviction. Network Structures of Political Judiciary in the Austrian Corporate State. Social Networks, vol. 66, July 2021, pp. 185–201. DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socnet.2021.03.001.
Ghawi, Raji & Petz, Cindarella & Pfeffer, Jürgen (2021). Diffusion Dynamics of Influence in a Social Network of Intellectuals. Social Network Analysis and Mining 2021, vol. 11, number 63. DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1007/s13278-021-00771-x.
Petz, Cindarella & Ghawi, Raji & Pfeffer, Jürgen (2020). A Longitudinal Analysis of a Social Network of Intellectual Influence. IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Network Analysis and Mining (ASONAM) 2020, pp. 340–347. DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1109/ASONAM49781.2020.9381318. (Preprint: arXiv:2009.03604 [cs.SI])
Ghawi, Raji & Petz, Cindarella & Pfeffer, Jürgen (2019). 'On the Shoulders of Giants', Analysis of a Social Network of Intellectual Influence. Sixth International Conference on Social Networks Analysis, Management and Security (SNAMS) 2019, pp. 248–255. DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1109/SNAMS.2019.8931821.
Other Publications
Petz, Cindarella (2018): Between Tartan and Tallit? On Zionism in Scotland. In: Collins, Kenneth E.; New- man, Aubrey; Wasserstein, Bernard (Ed.): Two Hundred Years of Scottish Jewry. Scottish Jewish Archives Committee Glasgow 2018, pp. 239–262. ISBN 978-1-9999178-0-7.
