
Johannes.Kiesel@gesis.org

I am the leader of team BDA at GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences in Cologne, Germany since 2025. Before that I have been a Post-Doc and researcher at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar (I defended my dissertation in 2022).
I have been a PI of the project Futuring Machines (BUW, 2024).
I have been one of the full paper chair for CUI 2024 and am one of the proceedings chair for ECIR 2026. I have served on the program committees or as reviewer for the Web Conference alternate track on Journalism, Misinformation, and Fact Checking (2018), ARR (2024, 2025, 2026), ArgMining (2021, 2023, 2025), CAIR (2020), CHI (2019, 2023), CHIIR (2024, 2026), CIKM (2020, 2021, 2022), CLEF (2014, 2016, 2025), CLEF Labs (2022, 2023, 2024, 2025), COLING-LREC (2024), CUI (2022, 2024), DBSpektrum (2015), EACL (2017), ECIR (2018, 2020, 2023, 2024, 2026), EMNLP (2016), HCOMP (2018), HT (2020), IJCAI (2023), KDML-LWDA (2016), NAACL (2016), PAN (2019), SemEval (2019), SIGIR (2016, 2021, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026), Springer World Wide Web (2024, 2025), TOIS (2020, 2022, 2023), Touché (2022, 2023, 2024), TPDL (2022, 2023, 2024, 2025), WebConf (2026), WebSci (2026), and WIR-LWDA (2016). I have been a member of the parent's council of the Kindergarten associated with Bauhaus-Universität Weimar (2019-2025). I'm a member of the SIGIR Artifact Evaluation Committee (since 2021).