Maria Badke(Student Assistant)
is a trained retail saleswoman who earned her bachelor's degree in "sociology in technology studies" with a minor in computer science from the Technische Universität Berlin. Maria´s primary interest lies in empirical social research. She is currently a first year masters´student in the interdisciplinary Statistics program at the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, where she constantly strives to enhance her quantitative research skills. Since December 2011 Maria has also been working for iFQ as a student assistant at the center for bibliometrics.