… studied music education, musicology and Catholic theology in Passau and Regensburg. Research assistant at the Institute of Musicology at the University of Regensburg, where he graduated in 2002 and received his doctoral degree in 2007. Habilitation at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz in 2013, obtaining the venia legendi for music history.

Further training as a digital humanities expert at the Centre for Information Modelling at the University of Graz and the Edirom Summer Schools Detmold/Paderborn. 2009–2025 lecturer at the University of Vienna. Further lectureships at the Universities of Music and Performing Arts Graz (KUG) and Vienna (MDW), at the Institute of History at the University of Regensburg, and at the Department of Archives and Libraries at the University of Applied Sciences for Public Administration in Bavaria.

Since 2008 staff member at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. As a Senior Research Associate at the Department of Musicology, he heads various third-party funded projects in the fields of Digital Humanities and Generative AI. He is the founder and editor of the web platforms Cantus planus and Bruckner online, and of the new edition of the printed Werkverzeichnis Anton Bruckner.

Additionally, he serves as the budget officer and organizer of the department’s concerts and events. Further training as a Digital Humanities specialist with professional development through, among others, the Center for Information Modeling (University of Graz) and Edirom Summer Schools (Detmold/Paderborn). He recently completed the Certified Program in “Generative AI” at the University for Continuing Education Krems. He is Transkribus representative of the OeAW and editor of the ACDH’s newsletter on Generative AI.

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