Biography

Sebastian Ramirez-Ruiz is a computational social scientist with a special interest in policymaker–researcher interactions. He is a Part-Time Assistant Professor in Quantitative Methods and a Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellow, and he is also a Research Fellow at the Hertie School Data Science Lab in Berlin. His research agenda centres around how policymakers engage with academic research and how scientific evidence informs public decision-making, drawing on computational and causal inference methods. His research has been published in peer-reviewed journals such as Nature Human Behaviour, Political Science Research and Methods, Political Communication, Research & Politics, and Humanities and Social Sciences Communications.

Mentor

• Kevin, Munger

Mentor

• Simon, Hix

Recent research output

• RAMIREZ-RUIZ, Sebastian; SENNINGER, Roman (2026), Government policy documents across 185 countries largely cite Global North sources, Article