Robin-M. Aust
… works at Bielefeld University (SFB1288 'Practices of Comparing', TP E06/AG Herrmann) on Swiss literature and digital literary analysis. Previously, he was a research assistant at the Chair of Modern German Literature at HHU Düsseldorf, where he completed his doctorate on the style and persona of Thomas Bernhard and their reception and transformation in contemporary literature. His other research aereas include intertextuality and intermediality, metafictionality and practices of performing authorship as well as digital literature/literary studies and (literary) comics. In addition, he is currently the deputy editor-in-chief of the Zeitschrift für digitale Geisteswissenschaften (ZfdG).
In collaboration with the ACDH and the FTB, Robin-M. Aust is researching digital methods for analyzing Bernhard's prose works in particular. The focus is on computational, linguistic and stylometric approaches.
Anastasia Baillie-Spegalskaya
Anastasia Baillie-Spegalskaya's sociolinguistic interests focus primarily on research in language policy and language ideology in connection with the construction of a national Austrian identity in the context of Austria's Second Republic. Against this backdrop, she is working on her dissertation titled " 'Austrian German' and the Soviet Occupation Power 1945–1955: On Language Ideology and Language Policy in the Early Phase of the Second Austrian Republic." As a visiting researcher at the Department of Linguistics of the ACDH, she collaborates in particular with the project "History and Philosophy of Linguistic Research on the German Language in Austria".
Additionally, she is active professionally as an Instructional Designer and E-Learning Developer. In this role, she combines her journalistic background (Master's degree from Lomonosov Moscow State University) and her Master's degree in Austrian Studies from the University of Vienna with her expertise in developing E-learning content for international organizations, FinTechs, higher education, and other fields. She is currently working in this professional field at the University of Applied Sciences for Management & Communication (FHWien der WKW).
Andreas Baumann
… is Assistant Professor of Digital Linguistics at the Department of German Studies of the University of Vienna. He has studied General and Applied Linguistics as well as Mathematics at the University of Vienna where he also obtained his PhD in Cognitive Science. From 2019 to 2022, he was principal investigator in two projects on semantic and emotional dynamics in German spoken in Austria (DYLEN, DYSEN). Until 2023, he was coordinator for Digital Humanities at the University of Vienna. Andreas was visiting researcher at the University of Stellenbosch (South Africa) and the University of Turin (Italy), and he teaches courses on computational linguistics and natural language processing at the Adam Mickiewiczk University in Poznan (Poland) on a regular basis. In his research, Andreas combines methods from mathematical ecology, data science, and corpus linguistics to study the evolution, complexity, and diversity of languages.
As visiting researcher at ACDH, Andreas Baumann is associated with the research unit Linguistics where he collaborates in doing research on semantic change in the German language in Austria and how it can be modeled computationally based on large-scale corpus data.
Wolfgang U. Dressler
… (born 1939 in Vienna) studied Linguistics and Classical Philology in Vienna, Rome and Paris. He first taught Linguistics in Vienna, at the UCLA and the Ohio State University, was full professor at the University of Vienna from 1971 to 2008, since then head of the Working Group of "Comparative Psycholinguistics" at its Department of Linguistics and researcher at the Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities (and its predecessors) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW). Professor Dressler is full member of the OeAW and six other academies, Dr. h. c. of the universities Sorbonne, Athens and Poznan.
His main research areas are corpus-based in morphology, language acquisition, morphonotactic, experimental studies of the mental lexicon and on poetic occasionalisms. He is (co-)author of more than 600 publications.
Stephanie Evert
Prof. Dr. Stephanie Evert is Chair of Computational Corpus Linguistics at Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. After studying mathematics, physics and English linguistics, she received a PhD degree in computational linguistics from the University of Stuttgart, Germany. Her research interests encompass the quantitative methodology of corpus linguistics, multivariate analysis and distributional semantics, applied corpus studies and digital humanities, tools for processing large text corpora, the combination of human interpretation with machine learning (digital hermeneutics), as well as language technology and its applications. She has been a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences since 2025, where she plays a central role in establishing a research database integrating lexicographic resources from all German academies and beyond.
Stephanie is currently a visiting researcher at the Linguistics unit of the Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities, fostering collaboration between BAdW and ACDH in the area of lexicographics resources and carrying out joint research on dialects and large language models.
Christine Gruber
… received her PhD in history and ancient history from the University of Vienna in 1983. Her research focuses on biographical lexicography and personal history as well as digital humanities. From 1983 to 2023 she worked for the "Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon 1815-1950" as an editor for the fields of fine arts and journalism, from 2009 to 2012 she was deputy director of the institute "Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon und Biographische Dokumentation" and from 2013 to 2017 coordinator of the research centre for the Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon at the Institute for Modern and Contemporary History Research. From 2015-2024 she was editor-in-chief of the Austrian Biographical Lexicon and from 2015-2020 deputy leader of the project "Mapping Historical Networks: building the new Austrian Prosopographical | Biographical Information System (APIS)". Christine is co-initiator of the European "Biography Portal".
At present, she is visiting researcher at the ACDH in the Research Unit DH Research&Infrastructure.
Matthias Guschelbauer
… studies musicology at the University of Vienna (PhD since 2023). Internships took him to the Max-Reger-Institute in Karlsruhe, the Austrian Academy of Sciences, and the music archive of St. Stephen’s Cathedral in Vienna. Since 2022, he has been working on the New Senfl Edition at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, editing sacred and secular music from the early modern period. In his dissertation, he uses interdisciplinary approaches to research the materiality, content, and reception of choirbook D-Mbs Mus.ms. C from the first half of the 16th century.
Guschelbauer is currently a visiting researcher at the ACDH associated with the Department of Musicology. As part of his dissertation, he is a member of the Young Researchers Network, which allows him to connect with the institute’s research focus on music iconography, music manuscripts, and music history at the Habsburg courts.
Richard Hadden
… is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Graz. His principal area of interest is digital prosopography: he is working on the Managing Maximilian (Digitising Maximilian) project. He studied French, Spanish and Italian at the University of Durham, before succumbing to the allure of Digital Humanities. He completed an MA at University College London in 2012, before joining the DiXiT (Digital Scholarly Editions Initial Training Network) Marie Curie Fellowship as an Early Stage Researcher. Based in Maynooth University, Ireland, he spent three years working on the "Letters of 1916" project. His PhD, on textual modelling in digital scholarly editions and text collections, was completed in 2018.
He is currently a visiting researcher at the Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities, in the Prosopography and Networking team. He is collaborating with members of the team on the APIS system, and with colleagues in the Institute for Medieval Research.
Thomas Hochradner
Ao. Univ.-Prof. Dr Thomas Hochradner has been a member of the Department of Musicology at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg since 1993, and has held the post of Lecturer in Historical Musicology since 2004. From 2006 to 2011, he was the first director of the Institute for the History of Musical Reception and Interpretation, to which he still belongs, and headed the Department of Musicology from 2014 to 2021. Since 2011, he has been head of the “Salzburg Music History Research Focus”; he also conducts research and publishes in the fields of music philology, Baroque music and Alpine folk music.
As Conference Chair, Thomas was responsible for the 16th Biennial International Conference on Baroque Music (2014). As a member of various editorial boards, including the Executive Committee of the Denkmäler der Tonkunst in Österreich, and as the author of the Thematischen Verzeichnisses der Werke von Johann Joseph Fux—the first volume of which was published in 2016 and the second of which is currently in preparation—he is closely involved with the research priorities of the Department of Musicology at the ACDH, particularly the project dedicated to the edition of the works of Johann Joseph Fux.
Leonhard Huber
… studied Library and Information Science at FH Eisenstadt from 1998 to 2002. Subsequently, he gained practical experience in the area of Digital Humanities, whereby he developed a course syllabus for a Cultural Heritage Digitisation License, as commissioned work for the Austrian Computer Society (OCG). L. Huber holds an Award of Distinction given by Ars Electronica, and has been composing since 1998. In the planning and implementation activities of the permanent exhibition "medien.welten" at Vienna’s Museum of Technology (TMW) he was responsible for the retrieval of historic content and its embedding into digital storytelling formats. From 2005 to 2022 he worked at the Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics (ZAMG) in the areas of software development and quality management. Now at successor organisation GeoSphere Austria, he was nominated as information security risk manager.
His tasks at ACDH’s Department for Musicology will encompass in-depth work on archival ressources and chronicles of Wiener Schubertbund (Viennese men’s choir since 1863). The findings and insights shall extend musicological (Schubert) research, as well as serve as starting points for a planned dissertation project in his present studies at University of Vienna. His scientific endeavour will take place in the fields of music history, aesthetics (performative practice and reception research) and semiotics.
Mary Elizabeth Kirchdorfer
… studied harp at the University of Augsburg (2016) before obtaining an assistantship at the University of Minnesota, where she completed her MA in Musicology (2018). Mary moved to Austria on a Fulbright Teaching Assistantship (2018–2020). During the pandemic, she taught harp in her studio in Vienna and worked as a musicological assistant for the project "The Young Beethoven, or Beethoven the Younger" with John Wilson at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Mary is currently a music history instructor at the Institute of European Studies (IES abroad), as well as a contributor to the FWF/WEAVE project "Concert Life in Vienna: 1780-1830." Mary is working on her doctorate in musicology at the University of Vienna under the advisement of Prof. Dr. Birgit Lodes. Her research interests include gender studies, music iconography, women's history, and harp pedagogy. At the moment her PhD dissertation is focusing on the roles and networks women had in Viennese concert life.
Michael Kurzmeier
… is a Postdoctoral Researcher in Digital Humanities and currently serves as a Technical Officer at DARIAH. His research focuses on advancing digital research infrastructure, particularly in web archives, born-digital content, and political communication in online spaces. He earned his PhD from Maynooth University, where his dissertation examined political communication through web defacements. Following this, he completed a postdoctoral position at University College Cork, contributing to the development of scholarly editions for born-digital content. Dr. Kurzmeier has also been an active member of the WARCnet project, where he played a key role in refining research methodologies for web archives.
As a visiting researcher at the Research Unit DH Research & Infrastructure at the Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities (ACDH), Dr. Kurzmeier works on the integration of data sources into the DARIAH publication platforms. Additionally, he coordinates the Editorial Board and the data ingest pipelines for the SSH Open Marketplace. Through his work, he supports the development of sustainable, interoperable digital infrastructures that enhance accessibility and usability for the broader research community.
Sarah Lentz
… is a postdoctoral researcher in the field of Early Modern History at the University of Bremen. Since 2025, she is the Principal Investigator of the focus project All Aboard! Uneven Mobilities, Being on the Move as an Embodied Practice and Social Sites in Motion. Sarah studied History and German Literature at the University of Hamburg and holds a Diploma in American Studies from Smith College, Massachusetts. Her dissertation on German-speaking antislavery activists was awarded the University of Bremen’s Dissertation Prize. From 2021 to 2025, she was an associated Junior Fellow at the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg in Delmenhorst.
She is currently a visiting researcher at the Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities in the research unit Literary & Print Culture Studies. In this context, she is collaborating with Nina C. Rastinger on a subproject of her focus project, funded through the University of Bremen’s AI initiative, which explores the semi-automated extraction of data from foreigner lists in the Regensburgisches Diarium. Together, they are adapting a workflow originally developed by Nina C. Rastinger for the Wienerisches Diarium to this new source.
Elisabeth Maier
... studied musicology, theatre studies and Catholic theology at the University of Vienna, as well as piano at the Vienna Conservatory. She has worked at the Music Collection of the Austrian National Library (1970-1980), the Anton Bruckner Institute Linz (since 1978; 1987-2005 its managing director) and the former Commission for Music Research and the Musicology Department of the Institute for Art and Music Historical Research (now ACDH) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (since 1981). Elisabeth has been Secretary General of the Vienna Catholic Academy since 1993 and was also its President from 2014 to 2017. From 2012 to 2015 she was President and from 2016 to 2021 Vice President of the Edith Stein Society Austria.
Elisabeth has been a visiting researcher at the Musicology Department of the ACDH on and off since 2006.
Katja Maierhofer
… researches the history of German linguistics, applying concepts from the philosophy of science and constructivist epistemology. Further research interests include intellectual history, the nation building of the Second Republic of Austria and the construction of linguistic identity. After completing her teaching profession studies in German, Mathematics, and Latin, she started working on her PhD project in the field of German Studies at the University of Vienna in 2019. In 2022, she taught at the Institute for German Language and Literature at the ELTE Campus Szombathely (Hungary) as a participant in the “OeAD Lektoratsprogramm.” For the academic year of 2022/23, she was awarded a Doctoral Research Fellowship at the Austrian Marshall Plan Center for European Studies at the University of New Orleans (Louisiana, USA). In fall 2024, she started a research position at the library and archival collections of the Admont Abbey.
Katja’s dissertation entitled “Linguistics as Ideology” is supervised by Manfred Glauninger and is part of the project “History and Philosophy of Linguistic Research on the German Language in Austria” within the Research Unit Linguistics at the ACDH.
Claudia Mattes
… is a University Assistant (prae doc) at the institute of German Studies at the University of Vienna since July 2024. Her research interests are situated at the intersection of linguistics and digital humanities, namely digital linguistics, with a focus on grammaticalization of non-canonical constructions, specifically passive forms, in German language corpora.
At the ACDH, she is part of the „Linguistics“ Research Unit as well as the Young Researchers Network. For her dissertation she’s using data from various corpora hosted at the institute, including amongst others the Austrian Media Corpus (amc), ParlaMint-AT and the Dictionary of Bavarian Dialects in Austria (WBÖ).
Barbara Plank
Prof. Dr. Barbara Plank is Chair for Artificial Intelligence and Computational Linguistics at LMU Munich, where she co-directs the Center for Information- and Language Processing and heads the Munich AI and NLP lab. After studying computer science and earning her PhD in computational linguistics, she has held research and faculty positions across Europe, building bridges between machine learning, linguistics and cognitive science. Her research centers on human-centric and inclusive NLP, including multilingual and low-resource modeling. She is particularly interested in advancing responsible and data-centric AI, including model robustness, generalization, and human-centered approaches to modeling and evaluating large language models.
Barbara is actively engaged in fostering interdisciplinary research collaborations and is currently a visiting researcher at the Linguistics unit of the Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities, fostering collaboration between NLP/AI research and the ACDH in the area of language technology for non-standard languages and dialects.
Tamara Radak
… is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of English and American Studies, University of Vienna. After a PhD in Irish and British modernist literature and culture, she was a committee member of the COST Action Distant Reading for European Literary History from 2020-2022. This collaboration lead to a first authorship on a paper that employed computational methods in the context of literary periodization: https://open-research-europe.ec.europa.eu/articles/3-128/v2. She is part of the executive committee of the Irish Society of Theatre Research, working on digital and postdigital aspects of contemporary performance. Currently, Tamara Radak is preparing a monograph entitled Networked Activist Media Practices in Feminist Protest Movements in Ireland and the United Kingdom, 1970-2020. In it, the digital features both thematically – as a contested space of political activism – and methodically, with the project exploring use cases of digital methods within cultural studies.
As a visiting researcher at the ACDH, Tamara Radak is associated with the Research Unit Literary & Print Culture Studies, where she will investigate the intersections between digital methods and (post)digital activism, especially in the context of data feminism.
Jutta Ransmayr
… is Associate Professor for German language didactics at the German department and Centre for teacher education at the University of Vienna. Her research is mainly concerned with language variation, also with regards to the teaching context, language norms, language politics and corpus linguistics. Jutta was part of the initial ICLTT (Institute of Corpus Linguistics and Text Technology) since 2011 where she took a leading role in building the Austrian Media Corpus (amc). A corpus she continued to administer when she joined the ACDH in 2015, next to other reasearch and networking activities in the realm of Austrian Standard German and corpus data acquisition (i.e. Maturatext-Korpus). She is an Austrian representative in the Council for German Orthography and one of Austria´s delegates in EFNIL (European Federation of National Institutions for Language), where ACDH is one of the two institutions representing Austria.
Nina Rastinger
Brigitte Rath
… is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Innsbruck. She received her PhD from LMU Munich with a dissertation in narrative theory and has since held positions, among others, at Princeton University, Freie Universität Berlin, and as Assistant Professor at the University of Innsbruck. There, she completed her habilitation in 2024 with a thesis entitled “Reading Relations.” Her research interests include non-monolingualism (including pseudotranslations), heterogeneous relationality, poetic address, and the formation of community. She is interested in Digital Humanities and AI both as research methods and as catalysts for reflecting on concepts in literary studies.
As a visiting researcher in the "Literary & Print Culture Studies" Research Unit at the ACDH, Brigitte Rath will continue her ongoing project on forms of address in the English sonnet, working with a self-compiled and annotated diachronic corpus spanning the early modern period to the beginning of the twentieth century.
Renato Rocha Souza
… is researcher, Professor and Data Scientist with +20 years of experience in the fields of Applied Mathematics, Computer Science, Data Science, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Natural Language Processing, Generative AI, Information Science, Knowledge Organization and Representation, Knowledge Management, Education and Research. He is also a researcher in the domains of Banking & Finance, Political Science, Law, Economics & Demography, Public Health, Digital Humanities, Linguistics and Education. Renato is Bachelor in Electrical Engineering, Postgraduate in Technology and Education, Master in Production Engineering and PhD in Information Science. He attained four Postdoc in Computer Science and Digital Humanities (UK, USA & Austria).
His international academic experience includes positions as a visiting fellow (University of South Wales, UK), visiting researcher (Columbia University, NY) and scientific researcher (Austrian Academy of Sciences), as well as professor, researcher, principal investigator, data scientist, university department dean, corporate university dean and startup director. He worked in federal and private universities, and other research institutions, K-12 and High Schools. He was also engaged outside of academia, such as in tech industry companies, finance and banking industry, think tanks, startups, and as a consultant.
As a visiting researcher, Renato wants to contribute to the corpora based projects, aiding in the spelling variations and synonyms projects.
Günter Stummvoll
… studied Musicology at the University of Vienna (BA 2016, MA 2019, PhD since 2021) and Columbia University (NY/USA 2023/09–12), as well as journalism and media management at the University of Applied Sciences WKO Vienna (BA 2011). Since 2018 he has been working at the University for Continuing Education Krems, where he acted as Research Fellow in various projects. The Viennese Department of Musicology awarded him with the Outstanding Master’s Thesis Award in 2019. He also received several Merit and Research Grants. From 2022 to 2025 he is working on his Dissertation project „The Harrach Music Collection during the 18th Century“, funded by the Gesellschaft für Forschungsförderung Niederösterreich (Lower Austrian Society of Research funding). In 2025 he was appointed Head of the Historical Music Collections of the University Krems.
As part of his dissertation, he is associated with the Musicology Department at the ACDH and participates in the institute's Young Researchers Network. Stummvoll is particularly interested in the department's focus on researching Austrian music history from the 17th to 19th centuries.
Gabriel Viehhauser
… studied German literary studies at the University of Vienna and specialized in medieval literature. After working on a digital edition project at the Universities of Basel and Bern on Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival and short stays in Munich and Göttingen, he was Professor for Digital Humanities at the University of Stuttgart. Since April 2024, he has been Professor of Digital Scholarly Editing at the University of Vienna. He is member of the advisory board of the Mediävistenverband and chairman of the Commission for the edition of medieval and early modern texts in the Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Germanistische Editionen. In his research, Gabriel Viehhauser has recently focused in particular on the combination of digital editorial methods with text-analytical methods, such as the transfer of text-reuse methods to intertextual phenomena of textual variance and the extension of editorial techniques to multimodal sources and those outside the print paradigm (such as medieval and digital literature).
At the ACDH, he works in the Department of Literary & Print Culture Studies, in particular on projects dealing with digital scholarly editions as well as their digital evaluation and archiving.
Ulrike Wagner
… studies musicology at the University of Vienna (since 2021 PhD). Since 2018, she has been working and doing research in music archives at various monasteries in Lower Austria. From 2018 to 2020, she was a research assistant in the research project “Kloster_Musik_Sammlungen”, and since 2021 she has been a doctoral candidate at the music archive of Klosterneuburg Abbey. The focus of her dissertation project, funded by the Lower Austrian Society of Research funding, is the music life in Klosterneuburg Abbey as well as the personal relations to Vienna at the beginning of the 19th century. For that purpose, she deals with the archival material of the abbey’s collections. Thus, her interests focus on Austrian music history (18th-19th centuries), church music, and biographical research. From 2017 to 2022, she was a scholarship holder of the Austrian Studienstiftung Pro Scientia.
Wagner is currently a guest researcher at the ACDH associated with the Department of Musicology. As part of her dissertation, she participates in the Young Researchers Network, which allows her to connect with the institute's research on monastic music history and biographical research.
Anja Wittibschlager
… is a university assistant and lecturer (prae doc) at the Department of German Studies at the University of Vienna in the field of linguistics. Previously, she worked as a research assistant in the Special Research Programme "German in Austria. Variation – Contact – Perception" („SFB DiÖ“) (FWF F60, project leader: Alexandra N. Lenz). Her research interests lie primarily in the areas of (morpho-)syntactic, pragmatic, and lexical variation. In her dissertation, she focuses the phenomenon of sujunctive II from a variationist linguistic perspective (supervisor: Alexandra N. Lenz).
As a visiting researcher at the ACDH of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, she is assigned to the Research Unit Linguistics and is involved in the development of the online platform Linguae Austriacae: Platform and Information System on Language(s) in Austria (LAPIS) as part of a collaboration between the ACDH and the SFB DiÖ.
Theresa Ziegler
... is a university assistant (prae doc) in the linguistics unit at the Institute of German Studies (University of Vienna) working on her dissertation on lexical-morphological variation in (written) Austrian Standard Language (supervisor: Alexandra N. Lenz). She studied at the University of Vienna and has been a research assistant in the Vienna project parts PP01 (Coordination Project) & PP03 (Language Repertoires and Variety Spectra) of the Special Research Programme "German in Austria" (FWF F60, SFB DiÖ) from 2019 to 2023.
She is a Visiting Researcher at the “Linguistics” Research Unit of the ACDH of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and analyses data from the Austrian Media Corpus (amc) for her dissertation. Through a collaboration between the ACDH "Linguistics" department and the SFB DiÖ, she is involved in the development of a research platform based at the ACDH.
Jan David Zimmermann
… currently works as a freelance author, journalist and science researcher. After completing a bachelor's degree in “Sprachkunst” (creative writing) at the University of Applied Arts (Vienna) he completed a master's degree in Philosophy of Science and History of Science (HPS) at the University of Vienna. He has been studying for a doctorate at the Institute of Contemporary History (Vienna), initially supervised by em. University Prof. Dr. Carola Sachse (Institute for Contemporary History), secondly supervised by Private Lecturer Dr. Manfred Glauninger (Institute for German Philology). From 2017 to 2019 he worked as a scientific project assistant in the digitalization project “Austrian Dialect Cartography 1924–1956. Digitalization, Contextualization, Visualization” (Scientific Management: Manfred Glauninger). Zimmermann deals with the history of linguistics with a focus on dialect research in the first half of the 20th century and addresses the question of the political-ideological implications of cartographic visualization of language. He is fundamentally interested in the connection between science and politics/ideology and deals with different theoretical approaches from Science Studies, Philosophy of Science and Semiotics which he also addresses in his journalistic work.
At the ACDH, Jan David Zimmermann is a Visiting Researcher in the Research Unit Linguistics within the project "History and Philosophy of Lingustic Research on the German Language in Austria“.