Portrait of Marcel Neunhoeffer

Marcel Neunhoeffer

he/him

Post-doc · Institute for Employment Research

Nuremberg, Germany

First-time speaker at PyCon DE & PyData 2026

Marcel Neunhoeffer is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Statistical Methods Unit of the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) in Nuremberg, Germany, and at SODA Lab at LMU Munich.

His research focuses on privacy-preserving AI and synthetic data generation.

He collaborated with the US Census Bureau and the German Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) on the development of privacy-preserving synthetic data for sensitive administrative datasets. He has published in leading venues across disciplines, including ICLR, PNAS, the Harvard Data Science Review, and Political Analysis.

As a co-founder and contributor to zweitstimme.org, he co-built a platform that communicates scientific election forecasts for German Federal elections to a broad audience, covered by major German media, including Süddeutsche Zeitung, Zeit Online, Tagesspiegel, and the Washington Post.