Jonas Volle is a research assistant and doctoral student at Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg and works in the DFG project "Networks, Paradigms and Careers in the Academic Field: Sociology in Germany and the United States" together with Prof. Richard Münch and Prof. Andreas Schmitz.

He received his bachelor's degree in political science from the University of Erfurt in 2016 and his master's degree in sociology from the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn in 2022. His master's thesis focused on the divergent representations of scientific cooperation by bibliographic databases, using the example of publication networks in Web of Science and Scopus.
Between 2021 and 2022, he was a guest researcher in the Computational Social Science department at GESIS in Cologne, where he exchanged ideas on digital data, textual data, and the corresponding analysis methods.
His research interests lie in combining sociological perspectives and methodologies with computational social science approaches. In particular, he is interested in methods such as text mining, network analysis or machine learning in the field of sociology of science and their combination with relational theory and network theory.