Forschungsseminar


Seminar Series

Wednesday Faculty Research Seminar



Organizers
Mathilde Dräger, Omar Martin Fieles-Ahmad

Time and Room
Time: Wednesdays, 1 pm s.t. - 2 pm
(exceptions will be noted below)
Location: Campus, building 22, room A-225 (Fakultätszentrum)

Further information
Mathilde Dräger (mathilde.draeger@ovgu.de)
Tel.:+49 (0)391/ 67 58796
Omar Martin Fieles-Ahmad (omar.fieles-ahmad@ovgu.de)
Tel.: +49 (0)391 / 67-58954




Date Speaker/Author Title
We. 09/04/25
1:00 pm
Fakultätszentrum
Omar Martin Fieles-Ahmad I Got 99 Problems and a Birch is One: Seasonal Allergies and Road Safety in the UK

This paper investigates the impact of airborne pollen on serious and fatal traffic accidents in the UK. Using daily county-level data from UK Met Office reporting sites spanning 2013–2023, I find that higher pollen concentrations cause an increase in severe traffic accidents. The effect seems to be driven by tree pollen in particular. The results are robust to a range of weather and air pollution controls and are further validated using simulated pollen data from Ambee (2016–2022). These findings underscore the role of seasonal health-related factors in shaping road safety outcomes. Additionally, I explore the use of thermal inversion as an instrumental variable for pollen exposure and raise serious concerns about the validity of the exogeneity assumption in this context, with implications for its application in air pollution research.

We. 16/04/25
1:00 pm
Fakultätszentrum
Carina Keldenich tba
We. 23/04/25
1:00 pm
Fakultätszentrum
Dr. Ulugbek Aminjonov (University of Bordeaux)
Inviting person:
Omar Martin Fieles-Ahmad
We. 30/04/25
1:00 pm
Fakultätszentrum
Kim Siegling ,
(Kai Heinrich, Sabrina Jeworrek)
Removing the human in human resource: The adverse effect of AI use in the recruitment process
We. 14/05/25
1:00 pm
Fakultätszentrum
Hang Nguyen tba
We. 21/05/25
1:00 pm
Fakultätszentrum
Felix Holub (WZB Berlin Social Science Center)
Inviting person:
Omar Martin Fieles-Ahmad
We. 28/05/25
1:00 pm
Fakultätszentrum
Jannik Greif tba
We. 11/06/25
1:00 pm
Fakultätszentrum
cancelled
We. 18/06/25
1:00 pm
Fakultätszentrum
Dmitri Bershadskyy tba
We. 02/07/25
1:00 pm
Fakultätszentrum
Miguel Abellán-Ossenbach
Inviting person:
Mathilde Dräger
tba
We. 09/07/25
1:00 pm
Fakultätszentrum
Mathilde Dräger tba

Best Paper Award Winners

Summer 2024: Leonie Koch

Winter 2023: Jun.-Prof. Ph. D. Huyen Nguyen, M. Sc. Kim Siegling, M. Sc. Christopher Woddow



Idee und Umsetzung: Prof. Dr. Abdolkarim Sadrieh und Dipl.-Kfm. Harald Wypior | © 2025

Letzte Änderung: 07.02.2024 - Ansprechpartner: Webmaster