Birger Schacht

BSc

Telephone
(+43 1) 51581 – 2287

E-Mail

birger.schacht(at)oeaw.ac.at

... is a software engineer at the ACDH-CH. Before joining the ACDH-CH, he worked as a system administrator and open source software developer. He received his bachelor degree in IT Security from the university of applied science St. Pölten, publishing a data science analysis of cryptographic material.

At the ACDH-CH he is part of the research unit DH Research&Infrastructure doing software development work for the Prosopography and Networks team, mostly using Python to do backend developmend and data wrangling. His current projects include SiCProD, a Prosopographical Database of the Court of Sigmund of Tyrol, and the Prosopographical Research Platform. He is also working on APIS, the Austrian Prosopographic Information System. In his spare time he dabbles in Rust programming and is a long time contributor in various Open Source software projects.