
… studied Media Informatics (B.Sc., Dipl.-Ing.) at the Vienna University of Technology and History (B.A., M.A.) at the University of Vienna. His master’s thesis in History examined the visual reporting on the end of the First World War and the Paris Peace Conference in Austrian newspapers. Since 2023, he has been pursuing a doctoral project on the Wiener Salonblatt, investigating the periodical as a communication platform and PR network of the Habsburg nobility. In this context, he applies AI-assisted methods to analyse the short news items published in the magazine.
At the Vienna University of Technology, FHWien University of Applied Sciences for Management & Communication, and the IMC University of Applied Sciences Krems, he taught for several years as a lecturer in Video Production as well as Digital and Visual Marketing in Tourism.
Since August 2025, he has been working as a Research Data Engineer in the research unit Literary & Print Culture Studies. His areas of responsibility include AI-assisted text and layout recognition, text transformation scenarios, as well as the preparation, enrichment, and visualization of data for various digital publication formats and data resources (such as corpora or editions within the research focus area Periodicals & Corpora).
Publications
- Lendl, C., & Purgathofer, P. (2010). Challenges in Interactive Time-Based Information Visualization. In Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Digital Approaches in Cartographic Heritage. 5th International Workshop on Digital Approaches in Cartographic Heritage, Wien, Austria. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12708/53573
