Simon Birrer
I'm a Master's student in Political Science with a focus on International Relations and a minor in Japanese Studies at the University of Zurich. My work sits where comparative politics, East Asian security, and computational methods meet. In political science it runs from parliaments at home to security questions in East Asia, asking how each adapts under pressure.
Iran Escalation Dashboard
A public tracker of military and diplomatic actions involving Iran, built from English-language news coverage: every article is scored against a fixed rubric, articles are clustered into events with aggregated media links, and the escalation index takes the median of per-article scores across five conflict axes.
Live data, exported from the ingestion pipeline's database on every scheduled run.
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