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Dániel Németh

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Postdoctoral Researcher - Theoretical and Computational Physics

Vienna
Dániel Németh

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Postdoctoral Researcher - Theoretical and Computational Physics at Radboud University

  • Built and maintained C and C++ simulation engines with Python analysis for studies of 4D random geometries on shared HPC systems.
  • Developed modular Python pipelines with clear interfaces and caching for large datasets to improve analysis throughput and reuse.
  • Automated SLURM and PBS batch workflows for submission, monitoring, environment capture, and artifact packaging to ensure reproducibility.
  • Refactored utilities into tested, documented packages to lower maintenance effort and support collaboration.
  • Supervised BSc students and organized seminars.
  • Published several peer-reviewed papers.
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Geoffrey Grigor

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Lead Researcher

Berg
Geoffrey Grigor

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Lead Researcher at York St John Business School

  • Independently designed, conducted, and evaluated a research project examining dynamic management capabilities (DMCs) in the implementation of HR practices at different management levels (top, middle, and frontline management).
  • Focus on the strategic role of frontline management in implementing effective HRM measures.
  • Self-initiated project with academic collaboration from York St John University, Robert Kennedy College, and the University of Cambridge.
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Kirill Lorenz

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UX Researcher | UX Research Consultant | UX/UI Design

Hamburg
Kirill Lorenz

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UX researcher, UX/UI designer at 50Hertz Transmission GmbH (Elia Group)

Energy, transmission system operator · Desktop, web application

  • Products Digitalisation of the grid connection process; master data and processes of market locations; balancing of virtual MaBiS aggregate time series; the group's first searchable catalogue and visual UI pattern library

  • Planning, running and analysing qualitative in-depth interviews: more than 100 interviews with external market partners and internal departments

  • Designing qualitative interviews including interview guides and evaluation logics; recruiting and scheduling participants

  • Analysing, preparing and presenting research findings as usability reports and result reports

  • Translating research findings into UX and design requirements and deriving prioritised recommendations for improvement

  • Presenting analysis and research results to departments, product owners and decision makers in a form suited to each audience

  • UX research for internal enterprise and line-of-business applications along regulated market processes

  • Quantitative methods: online surveys for roadmap prioritisation, questionnaire studies, definition and measurement of UX KPIs

  • Facilitating requirements workshops; gathering, analysing, describing, agreeing and documenting functional and non-functional requirements

  • Developing user flows and customer journeys; building and providing UX standards, methods and capabilities (UI pattern library)

  • Working in product and project teams under Scrum, taking part in all subject-matter meetings and Scrum events

Impact Took three software products to launch

Tools Condens, Miro, FigJam, Figma, Whimsical, Microsoft Teams, Typeform

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Tobias Kirchmayr

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Business Analyst / Requirements Engineer | E-Commerce, B2B Platforms & UAT

Tobias Kirchmayr

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Bug Bounty Hunter & Security Researcher at HackerOne

Identification, analysis, and structured reporting of security vulnerabilities in web applications as part of authorized bug bounty programs.

Focus areas:

  • Analysis of web applications, APIs, and authentication flows
  • Reproducible documentation of technical findings
  • Assessment of impact, risk, and technical root causes
  • Creation of clear reports with step-by-step reproduction paths
  • Added security and quality insights for digital product development
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Gwang Jin Kim

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Data Scientist / Applied AI, Automation & Data Systems Researcher

ZĂĽrich
Gwang Jin Kim

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Data Scientist / Applied AI, Automation & Data Systems Researcher at Independent

  • Built and explored applied GenAI, RAG, GraphRAG, local LLM, agentic AI and document-intelligence prototypes for structured analysis, evidence extraction, semantic search, technical reasoning and decision-useful reporting
  • Developed private local-LLM workflows and AI system patterns focused on privacy, reproducibility, reviewability, low-cost inference and practical user control
  • Built reproducible Python/R workflows for data analysis, automation, API-driven tooling, validation logic, technical documentation and AI-assisted software development
  • Designed workflows around explicit assumptions, traceable inputs, reviewable outputs and failure-mode awareness rather than black-box “looks good” demonstrations
  • Supported RAHN AG in a chemical/regulatory environment with data extraction and processing around WERCS, a regulatory application for chemical product and compliance data
  • Explored complex application/database schemas and wrote nested SQL queries to extract information for mixture calculations, component relationships, regulatory rules and reporting logic
  • Continued hands-on development in Git/GitHub/GitLab/Bitbucket, Docker/Linux deployment patterns, REST/API workflows, error handling, technical writing and fast AI-assisted prototyping
  • Built technical writing and documentation workflows that turn complex systems into clear runbooks, checklists, decision notes and user-facing explanations
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Afaq Afaq Saeed

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Master’s Thesis Researcher – Multiview Perception Evaluation

Wolfsburg
Afaq Afaq Saeed

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Master’s Thesis Researcher – Multiview Perception Evaluation at Volkswagen AG

  • Developed an evaluation framework for AI-generated multiview driving videos intended for perception and embodied-AI/VLA-related training workflows.
  • Designed automated checks for temporal coherence, cross-camera consistency, semantic correctness, and multiview geometric quality, exposing failure modes relevant to autonomous systems.
  • Combined classical computer vision, learned visual representations, and vision-language models to convert complex video artifacts into measurable engineering signals.
  • Built repeatable benchmarking and failure-analysis workflows to support model comparison, data-quality decisions, and system-improvement discussions.
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Mike Battistella

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User Experience Designer / Design Thinking Coach

Bottighofen
Mike Battistella

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Freelance UX-Researcher, -Designer at Companion Hub

UX research and UX concepts for an assisted living application with QT client bulletin board/video application and web interface for client support

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Daniel Fenge

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Reliable, High-Performing, and Creative Education and Project Manager, AI Trainer/Evals Reviewer/Researcher, and Author.

Bochum
Daniel Fenge

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AI Researcher & LLM Evaluation – Conventional Paradigm Test (CPT) at Private

Conventional Paradigm Test (CPT) – AI Evaluation & LLM Research

Development of an experimental evaluation approach to examine “paradigmatic closure” in Large Language Models — that is, the question of how far LLMs can recognize the basic assumptions, values, and limits of the paradigms within which they generate answers.

Design and testing of an additional approach to classic AI benchmarks that does not primarily measure factual correctness or task performance, but instead examines a model’s ability to recognize alternative perspectives, make implicit assumptions visible, and reflect on the limits of its own answer or interpretation framework.

Focus areas: development of evaluation criteria and test questions · LLM evaluation and comparative model analysis · prompt and response analysis · qualitative classification of model answers · study of epistemic compression and value leakage · benchmark and literature research · development of structured assessment and analysis methods

As part of CPT, existing AI evaluation approaches and benchmarks were analyzed, and a minimalist test protocol was developed that classifies model answers by response patterns such as DIRECT, CLARIFY, PLURALIST, REFUSE, and META-AWARE. TruthfulQA was used as the basis for experimental application and comparison with existing reference answers.

Technologies & Methods: Large Language Models (LLMs) · Generative AI · Prompt Engineering · AI Evaluation · TruthfulQA · Benchmark Analysis · Human-in-the-Loop Evaluation · Qualitative Content Analysis · Research & Literature Review

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Kawahya Tizhe

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Public Health Expert - Contract

Geneva
Kawahya Tizhe

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Public Health Expert - Contract at Mercor

  • Contributed to Project Atlas as a domain expert supporting the design of realistic, long-horizon professional tasks for AI agent evaluation. Developed complex, public health-relevant workflows that test an AI agent's ability to navigate ambiguous prompts, synthesise information across distributed files and systems, manage multi-step dependencies, handle errors, and produce high-quality professional deliverables.
  • Applied public health expertise to design task scenarios involving emergency preparedness, operational readiness, health systems strengthening, risk assessment, surveillance, and policy-oriented decision-making. Responsibilities included creating task prompts, golden solutions, rubrics, and evaluation criteria aligned with real-world professional standards. At the same time, ensuring outputs were action-focused, ethically grounded, and suitable for assessing advanced AI performance in realistic organisational environments.
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Heena Patel

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AI Researcher

Hamburg
Heena Patel

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Retirement Spend & Tax Optimizer Agentic AI App (Vibe Coding) at Personal Project

Self-directed exploration of agentic AI development methods, taken from idea to a working, publicly usable application

  • Built an interactive planning tool for modelling retirement withdrawals and tax strategy using an agentic AI (vibe coding) development approach – demonstrating self-directed investigation of new AI-assisted development methods
  • Delivered live, tax-aware spending projections and adjustable user inputs; shipped as a free, install-free browser application built in Python, with attention to usability for non-technical users
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Alejandro Alvarez

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AI Researcher & Engineer

ZĂĽrich
Alejandro Alvarez

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AI Researcher & Engineer at Tufa Labs

  • Deployed and optimized the inference stack on a multi-node DGX B200 cluster across vLLM and SGLang (serving, throughput and latency tuning).
  • Built, with a small team, an internal Python library for LM pretraining covering the full training loop: distributed training with PyTorch FSDP, data pipelines, checkpointing, config and hyperparameter management, and experiment tracking.
  • Built and evaluated agent scaffolds on interactive game benchmarks similar to ARC-AGI-3, with metrics for how models plan, explore and adapt across multi-step episodes; classified model errors and fed the findings back into scaffold and evaluation design.
  • Researched looped transformer architectures.
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Remilekun Fakunle

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Environmental Researcher & Technical Consultant | Data Analysis, GIS & Virtual Assistance

FĂĽrstenwalde
Remilekun Fakunle

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Academic Peer Reviewer at Elsevier Journals

Evaluate high-impact manuscripts for scientific rigor, methodology, and clarity. Provide constructive, detailed feedback to international research teams on environmental sustainability and agro-ecology.

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Hrvoje Kurtović

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Researcher, Investment Research Institute

Lausanne
Hrvoje Kurtović

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Researcher, Investment Research Institute at Pictet Group

  • Designed and implemented AI-enhanced macro-factor models improving asset allocation decisions across multi-asset portfolios
  • Developed machine learning-based FX trading strategies, integrating macroeconomic and sentiment data to identify profit opportunities
  • Models adopted by the investment committee to guide equity and currency exposure
  • Collaborated with portfolio managers to translate analytical output into actionable investment insights
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Farzad Ziaie Nezhad

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Data scientist, Machine Learning, computer vision, LLMs

Farzad Ziaie Nezhad

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Markerless 3D Pose Estimation

  • Developed a deep learning system with multi-view Basler cameras for markerless 3D pose estimation

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Researchers statistics

Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.

Experience

14 years

Position duration

2.9 years

Positions per freelancer

8

Top business areas

Research and Development, Product Development, Information Technology

Top industries

Education, Information Technology, Professional Services

Certification focus areas

Information Technology, Product Development, Research and Development

Bachelor's degree or higher

97%

Master's degree or higher

85%

Doctorate

57%

Certifications per freelancer

2

Most common languages

English, German, French

Speak two or more languages

100%

Based on our profile pool as of 6 Sep 2026.

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Daily rate avg. 723 €

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Median rate 720 €

The median daily rate is the middle value of all daily rates — half of comparable freelancers charge less, half charge more. Unlike the average, it is barely affected by outliers.

Calculated based on our freelancers’ daily rates as of 6 Sep 2026. Actual rates may vary depending on seniority level, experience, skill specialization, project complexity, and engagement length.

Researchers experts industry focus

See where the role earns the most, city by city against the national average — every figure is calculated live from the freelancers on FRATCH.

  • Education (80%)
  • Information Technology (48%)
  • Professional Services (33%)
  • Healthcare (30%)
  • Biotechnology (28%)
  • Automotive (22%)
  • Manufacturing (22%)
  • Energy (17%)

Please note that freelancers can work across multiple industries, so percentages overlap.

About the role

What they do

Researchers gather, verify, and structure information for better decisions. They turn broad questions into a clear method, then search sources, interview people, compare findings, and summarize what matters. Typical outputs include research briefs, source reviews, interview notes, synthesis decks, market scans, and recommendation memos.

Common work

  • Desk research and source verification
  • Market, competitor, and trend analysis
  • User research support, interviews, and note-taking
  • Literature reviews and topic mapping
  • Data cleaning, tagging, and synthesis
  • Clear reports for product, strategy, or content teams

Skills that matter

Strong researchers are methodical and precise. They know how to ask the right question, choose the right sources, and separate facts from assumptions. They write clearly, cite carefully, and keep a clean line between evidence and interpretation.

Useful skills often include:

  • Search and source evaluation
  • Interview planning and moderation
  • Qualitative synthesis
  • Basic spreadsheet work
  • Clear reporting for non-specialists
  • Familiarity with academic, market, or product research methods

Tools and methods

The right researcher uses the tools that fit the task. That may include academic databases, web search, survey tools, interview guides, note systems, spreadsheets, and presentation formats. For product or UX work, they may also work with personas, journey maps, and transcript coding.

When companies bring one in

Companies hire a freelance researcher when the need is focused, urgent, or tied to a specific project. Common cases are launch preparation, investor or pitch research, content validation, due diligence support, customer discovery, and one-off analysis that does not justify a permanent hire.

  • The topic is new and internal knowledge is thin
  • The team needs evidence before a decision
  • Research capacity is missing for a short period
  • The work needs outside neutrality and fresh eyes

What good looks like

A strong researcher is fast without being sloppy. They define scope early, document sources, and explain limits clearly. They do not just collect information; they connect it to the business question and show what it means. For clients in areas like product, media, consulting, and e-commerce, that mix of rigor and clarity is what makes the work useful.

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Frequently asked questions

What clients ask us most about Researchers — answered in short.

A Researcher usually delivers structured findings, not just raw notes. That can include source lists, interview summaries, market scans, literature reviews, competitor comparisons, and a short recommendation based on evidence. The best deliverables are easy to share with decision-makers and easy to trace back to sources.

Look for strong search discipline, clear writing, and good judgment about source quality. A Researcher should be able to scope a question, choose an approach, and explain why one source is stronger than another. For interview-based work, they also need careful listening and clean synthesis.

A Researcher often works earlier in the process, when the question is still being defined and the evidence is mixed. A data analyst focuses more on structured datasets, while a market analyst may stay closer to commercial trends and reporting. In practice, the roles can overlap, but the research task usually starts with finding and validating information from multiple sources.

A freelancer makes sense when the work is project-based, time-sensitive, or highly specific. A Researcher can step in for a product launch, an internal decision, a content project, or a short discovery phase without long-term overhead. It is also a good option when you need outside perspective and quick ramp-up.

A Researcher is a strong fit for competitor analysis, customer discovery, literature reviews, market scans, and background research for strategy or content. They are also useful when teams need help preparing interviews, synthesizing findings, or turning scattered information into a clear summary. If the work ends with a decision, a brief, or a report, it is usually a good fit.

Most Researcher work can be done remotely because the core tasks are reading, interviewing, organizing, and writing. On-site can help when the project involves workshops, sensitive stakeholders, or close collaboration with product and leadership teams. Many clients use a hybrid setup, especially when interviews or review sessions are involved.

Judge a Researcher by the clarity of the question, the quality of the sources, and how well the findings answer the business need. Good work shows method, not just conclusions: you should see where the information came from and how the synthesis was done. A strong researcher also states what is uncertain, instead of pretending the evidence is complete.

A Researcher works best with a clear goal, a defined audience for the output, and access to the right context or source material. Even a short project brief helps: what the question is, what is already known, and what decision the research should support. Fast feedback on scope and format also keeps the work useful.

The average hourly rate for Researchers is 90 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 723 € based on an 8-hour working day.

Of the freelancers working as Researchers, 97% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 85% hold at least a Master's degree, and 57% hold a doctorate.

On average, freelancers working as Researchers have 14 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 2.9 years.

The most common languages among freelancers working as Researchers are English (100%), German (94%), and French (25%).

The most common industries among freelancers working as Researchers are Education (80%), Information Technology (48%), and Professional Services (33%).

The most common business areas among freelancers working as Researchers are Research and Development (100%), Product Development (58%), and Information Technology (52%).

FRATCH Researchers main locations

Our freelancers and interim experts are at home across the DACH region — available on-site in the major business hubs or fully remote. Choose a location to discover matched specialists, local market insights and up-to-date availability.

Berlin Hamburg Munich Cologne Frankfurt Stuttgart Dusseldorf Leipzig Dortmund Essen Bremen Dresden Hanover Nuremberg

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