Kilian Buehling received his master’s degree in economics from the Dresden University of Technology (TU Dresden), where he subsequently worked as Research Assistant in the Junior Research Group "Knowledge and Technology Transfer". He is currently conducting research in the Research Group "Dynamics of Digital Mobilisation" of the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society, as well as the research project NEOVEX. In this context, his research focuses on transnational communication processes and networking dynamics of anti-democratic and conspiracy theory groups in the digital space.

• Political communication in digital public spheres
• Social Network Analysis
• Machine Learning and quantitative methods

• Buehling, K. (2023). Message Deletion on Telegram: Affected Data Types and Implications for Computational Analysis. Communication Methods and Measures, 1–23. https://doi.org/10.1080/19312458.2023.2183188
• Heft, A., & Buehling, K. (2022). Measuring the diffusion of conspiracy theories in digital information ecologies. Convergence. https://doi.org/10.1177/13548565221091809
• Buehling, K. (2021). Changing research topic trends as an effect of publication rankings – The case of German economists and the Handelsblatt Ranking. Journal of Informetrics, 15(3). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2021.101199