Digital Humanities (DH) is teamwork. In the SCDH, experts from the (digital) humanities work closely together with research software engineers (software developers) to configure, adapt and further develop DH tools. The goal is both project-specific solutions as well as generic, user-friendly DH services. In our work we are supported by staff members of the ULB Münster in special areas of competence (e.g. scholarly communication or research data management).
Studies in history and philosophy at the universities of Hamburg and Göttingen
PhD in history, with a dissertation on Hypertext as a medium for non-linear knowledge representation in Digital History research (supervised by Prof. Dr. Stefan Haas)
Work experience
Research associate at the Chair of Theory and Methods of History (Prof. Dr. Stefan Haas), University of Göttingen; focus areas: theory and digital methods in historical research
Research associate in the Digital History working group at Bielefeld University; research areas: digital press discourse analysis (early 20th century), data visualization, methodological critique in the context of digital humanities, event and research management
Spokesperson for the committee of working group Digital History, Verband der Historiker und Historikerinnen Deutschlands (2023−2025)
M.A. in Philosophy and Information Science, University of Regensburg, master thesis in Philosophy of Science at the Chair for Theoretical Philosophy (Prof. Dr. Hans Rott)
diploma (FH) [B.Sc. equivalent] in Computer Science, Regensburg University of Applied Sciences, diploma thesis in Artificial Intelligence at the Laboratory for Databases and Artificial Intelligence (Prof. Jürgen Sauer)
Work experience
12/2022 – 06/2024: research associate in the Department of Manuscripts and Special Collections at the Herzog August Library in Wolfenbüttel (DFG project Handschriftenportal (HSP))
03/2019 – 06/2024: research associate in the Library and Electronic Research Infrastructure department at the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies in Regensburg (from July 2021 DigiKAR project in the Leibniz Cooperative Excellence funding program, until February 2022 DFG joint project OstData)
01/2019 – 06/2021: library IT specialist in the Library and Electronic Research Infrastructure department at the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies in Regensburg (development of the research data infrastructure and collaboration on the GeoPortOst map portal)
11/2015 – 10/2018: research associate at the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies in Regensburg (junior research group Frozen and Unfrozen Conflicts)
11/2014 – 10/2015: research associate at the Historical Commission at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Munich (DFG project for the digital edition of the German Biography)
Personal
"The scientist builds in order to study; the engineer studies in order to build." – Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.
Research assistant corpus linguistics and Python software development in the project PRODATPHIL
Main focus
Natural Language Processing
Corpus linguistics
Linguistic Linked Data
Software development
Education
Master of Arts (Linguistics, Computer Science, Psychology), University of Tübingen, with two semesters abroad at the University of Siena, Italy
Work experience
Natural Language Processing with neural language models in civil security research, research assistant, ZITiS
Machine learning for generating bibliographic metadata for digital publications, research assistant and software developer, German National Library
Search engine indexing and retrieval of bibliographic metadata and fulltext, research assistant and software developer, German National Library and Goethe University of Frankfurt/Hessian Library Information System
Neural network architecture for multi-modal human-machine interaction in autonomous robotics, research assistant, Institute for Neural Computation at Ruhr University Bochum
Personal
When I'm not busy extracting information from unmanageable data, I'm most likely to be found on the bicycle, at the piano, or in the 50-meter pool.
literary studies: law and literature, history of German studies, theories of example, discourse analysis, media theory
Education
Studies (M.A.) in modern German literature, germ. linguistics and philosophy
Doctorate (summa cum laude) in Modern German Literary Studies at the Ruhr-University Bochum with a thesis on the relationship between law and philology in the 19th century, supervised by Manfred Schneider
a couple of winter terms in physics and computer science
Work experience
Development of a database of examples in the discourse of philosophy (from 2006)
Research assistant in the DFG project Das Beispiel im Wissen der Ästhetik (1750-1850) by Prof. Dr. Michael Niehaus (FernUniversität in Hagen, 2016-2019)
Development of a study program Digital Humanities at the Fernuniversität in Hagen
Personal
lives in Bochum with his bicycle among cars; has put his pilot's license to rest, is interested in the navigation of flying insects; recently member of NABU
Interim management of SCDH and DH Coordinator at the University of Münster
2016: Founding member of the Digital Humanities Initiative at the University of Münster for the establishment of a DH center at the University of Münster
