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-CH, 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.

Jeremy Coleman

… is a musicologist and collaborative pianist, with research interests in the nineteenth century. He is a Resident Lecturer in Music in the Department of Music Studies, School of Performing Arts, University of Malta, where he also has the role of Area Director in Research for the School of Performing Arts. He read Music at Clare College, Cambridge, graduating with BA Hons and MPhil, and completed a PhD in Musicology at King’s College London. The latter thesis was the basis of his first monograph Richard Wagner in Paris: Translation, Identity, Modernity (The Boydell Press, 2019).

Jeremy is on leave from the University of Malta until the end of June 2024, during which time he is based at the Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage (ACDH-CH), specifically in the Department of Musicology, as a visiting researcher. He is working on two main projects: in collaboration with Dr Adeline Heck (ULB Brussels) an edition and English-language translation of François-Joseph Fétis’s writings on Wagner; and a monograph on music historiography and performance practice c.1770-1848, with a focus on Raphael Georg Kiesewetter.

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 Cultural Heritage (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.

Imre Fekete

… is a college associate professor of the Department of Pedagogy at Budapest Business University and holds a PhD in Education (Language Pedagogy). He teaches Learning theory, (Digital) media-, AI-, and technology-related courses such as Virtual learning environments. He is also involved in EFL teacher education at the University of Vienna instructing the seminar called Technology in teaching English as a foreign language. Imre has been instructing Language development seminars as well as technology-, and Research methodology-related courses in EFL Teacher Education since 2018.

At the ACDH-CH, Imre Fekete is part of the team of visiting researchers. His research interests that intersect with the profile of the unit are technology and applied artificial intelligence in educational and teacher continuing development settings as well as higher education research.

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-CH in the Research Unit DH Research&Infrastructure.

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 and Cultural Heritage, 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.

Jan Höll

… studied German Studies at the University of Vienna, in 2020 he worked as a research assistant in the Special Research Programme "German in Austria. Variation – Contact – Perception" (SFB DiÖ), in which he was previously engaged as a student assistant from 2018–2019. Since 2021, he has been working as a university assistant in the Department of German Studies (Sub-Department "Linguistics"). Under the supervision of Alexandra N. Lenz, he is writing a dissertation on language attitudes and discourses on standard language in Austria. Since 2023, he has been a guest researcher in the research unit "Linguistics" of the Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage (ACDH-CH) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.

He is involved in the ACDH-CH through the collaboration between the research unit "Linguistics" and the SFB DiÖ, in particular in the cooperation project on the Austrian Media Corpus (amc) and the processing of the SFB's research data on lexical variation in Austria as part of the research platform LAPIS (Linguae austriacae: A Platform and Information System on language(s) in Austria) based at the ACDH-CH.

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 was teaching harp in her studio in Vienna and working as a musicological assistant for the project "The Young Beethoven, or Beethoven the Younger" with John Wilson at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. In 2022, Mary began working on her doctorate at the University of Vienna and is contributing to the FWF/WEAVE project Concert Life in Vienna: 1780–1830. 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.

At the ACDH-CH, she concentrates on doing her research on the oeml project, which is carried out by Christian Fastl and Monika Kornberger.

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-CH) 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-CH on and off since 2006.

Catharina Marinica

… has been a research associate at the chair of Language Change and Language Variation at Friedrich Schiller University Jena since May 2021. Her research focuses on grammatical variation, which takes into account the system level as well as sociolinguistic aspects. Her dissertation is concerned with reflexive constructions in German. In April 2021, Catharina completed her Master's degree at the University of Vienna. She studied German philology. Sociology and Art history were her minor subjects. During her studies, she was a tutor for Middle High German, grammar of present-day German and Academic Writing. Furthermore she gave remedial lessons for pupils on a voluntary basis and at an education center (Volkshochschule) in Vienna.

Since January 2024, Catharina has been a visiting researcher at the Research Unit Linguistics, examining Austrian German for certain reflexive constructions.

Sanja Miketić Subotić

… is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Pristina - Kosovska Mitrovica. Her research interests include the contemporary Serbian language, lexicology, and sociolinguistics (language attitudes, standard language ideology, language contact, language maintenance and shift). She defended her PhD thesis in 2017 at the University of Belgrade (Serbia) on language attitudes and ideologies towards Serbian dialects, and has more than 15 years of teaching experience (mainly Lexicology, Sociolinguistics, Orthography, General Linguistics, and Serbian as a foreign language). She believes in open-access science and blended learning.

From February to July 2024, she was engaged as a visiting researcher at ACDH-CH, funded by the Austrian Academy of Sciences JESH scholarship, conducting qualitative and quantitative research within the project “Attitudes of the Serbian community in Vienna towards the Serbian and German language and culture” and focusing on the results of language contact in respective community’s perception of both Serbian and German language and culture in Austrian and diasporic context.

Kevin Rudolf Perner

… is a sociolinguist working on the mediation and acquisition of German as a Second Language (GSL) in the context of the dialect-standard continuum. His PhD project focused on the dialect-/standard input of vocational trainers towards refugees in training in Upper Austria. He is also very active in working on variation of German in the context of schooling. He currently works as a research assistant at the Centre for Teacher Education at Chemnitz University of Technology. Previously, he worked at the Institute for Language, Literature and Media at the European University of Flensburg. From 2018 to the beginning of 2023, he was employed at the Institute for German Studies at the University of Vienna, where he also completed his PhD. From 2016 to 2018, he held a ph2 professorship in GSL at the University of Teacher Education Lower Austria. Between 2005 and 2016 he taught German courses for refugee adults and adolescents.

Kevin Rudolf's work focuses on conversational linguistic approaches to the field of GSL. In the Research Unit Linguistics, he focuses on conversational linguistic approaches in the context of GSL and the variation of German.

Marlene Peterlechner

… studied Musicology at the University of Vienna's Department of Musicology, where she earned several performance scholarships. After practical training at the ORF Media Archive, she was employed as a research assistant in 2018 at the Department of Musicology (formerly Institute for Art History and Musicology) at the Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. There, she worked on several projects and long-term projects. From February 2018 until November 2019, Marlene has: contributed to The Wien-Film: A Comprehensive Analysis of the Film Studio 1938-1945; worked for one edition of music from the composer Johann Joseph Fux (in the same named long-term-project) from December 2018 until November 2019; and has been working as staff scientist from July 2019 until December 2022 at the Viennese research group of the New Schubert Edition, where she was responsible for the online-platforms Schubert-Digital (forthcoming) and Schubert-Online. Thereafter Marlene worked in the Heritage Science Austria project "DRACMarkS - Digitization, Recognition and Automated Clustering of Watermarks in the Music Manuscripts of Franz Schubert". Marlene combines a wide variety of interests in the field of musicology by source researching and music editing, beginning with music from baroque music composer Johann Joseph Fux, over music of Franz Schubert's romantic period, until Austrian film music made during wartime.

After receiving a scholarship from the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz for her dissertation, she quit her work on the DRACMarkS project and turned to her own research as a visiting researcher at the ACDH-CH.

Marie-Luise Pitzl-Hagin

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-CH is one of the two institutions representing Austria.

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.

Vanessa Schuh

… is a linguist specializing in German media linguistics within digital environments. Her doctoral project deals with the phenomenon of detachment on the social media platform Twitter and its development over time, employing a data-driven, quantitative approach based on her extensive corpus of German mass communication on Twitter. Since 2020, she has been a member of the Class of Language (GSLL) at LMU Munich.

Vanessa has also been a visiting researcher in the research unit Linguistics at ACDH-CH since January 1, 2024.

Laura Untner

… studied Comparative Literature and German Philology at the University of Vienna. Currently, she is working on her dissertation project, in which she develops paradigms for digital reception studies, using the example of the reception of Sappho. The project is supervised by Frank Fischer (Freie Universität Berlin) and Paula Wojcik (University of Vienna). It is affiliated with the Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School of Literary Studies (Freie Universität Berlin) and associated with the project Digital Observatory of World Literature (EXC 2020 Temporal Communities).

At the ACDH-CH, Laura Untner is a visiting researcher in the Research Unit Literary and Textual Studies. In recent years, she has conducted research in this department on Arthur Schnitzler and Karl Kraus and has co-edited digital editions.

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-CH of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and analyses data from the Austrian Media Corpus (amc) for her dissertation. Through a collaboration between the ACDH-DH "Linguistics" department and the SFB DiÖ, she is involved in the development of a research platform based at the ACDH-CH.