Thomas Kirchmair has been a study assistant in the ERC project DIGIHATE since February 2023. Before that, he was already involved in various projects, located at the University of Vienna at the Department of Communication and at the Faculty of Computer Science, at the Austrian National Library, and at the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ACDH-CH).

After bachelor studies in Communication Studies and German Philology, Thomas is currently writing his master's theses in Journalism and Communication Studies and Digital Humanities. His research interests include, among others, media effects, methods of digital text analysis, multivariate statistics, and the public discourse.