Nils Schwager is a Research Fellow at the Department of Computational Linguistics at Trier University, where he brings together computational social science and natural language processing. After completing a B.A. in Media and Communication Studies and Political Science, he recognized the potential of computational methods to investigate questions of polarization in societies fragmented by digital mass media and pursued an M.Sc. in Natural Language Processing. Most of his research is in computational social science, much of it together with his colleagues at EVAS.