Team HCDH

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Members

Our team consists of Prof. Dr. Vahram Atayan (Director), Dr. Nele Schneidereit (management), Dr. Florian Nieser (Scientific Director), David Schatz (HiWi), Jonathan Gaede (research assistant) and Laurien Dröge (HiWi). We come from cultural and historical studies backgrounds. With a background in Literary Studies and Digital Humanities, Game Studies, Numismatics, and Classical Archaeology, we see the ongoing growing importance of digital methods in the humanities, as well as the dynamics associated with them, in our consultations with and exchanges with a wide range of research projects, researchers, and students. With a combination of interdisciplinary collaborators, innovative research ideas, and strong service partners, we work to be a contributing and productive part of this dynamic.

Prof. Dr. Vahram Atayan (Director)

Prof. Dr. Vahram Atayan is head of the French department at the Institute for Translation and Interpreting (IUED) and director of the HCDH. His specialization is applied linguistics, translation and interpreting, and digital and computational humanities. He is a member of the INF sub-project “Home data: research infrastructure and multilingual modeling” in the DFG-funded Collaborative Research Center 1671 "Homeland(s): phenomena, practices, representations".

atayan@uni-heidelberg.de

Dr. Nele Schneidereit (Management)

Dr. Nele Schneidereit is managing director of the HCDH and she is also the scientific director of the Research Council in Field of Focus 3.

nele.schneidereit@uni-heidelberg.de 

Dr. Florian Nieser (Scientific Director)

Florian Nieser is the scientific director of the HCDH. He is currently conducting research in the field of Critical AI Engineering and is working on application-based uses of LLMs.

florian.nieser@uni-heidelberg.de

David Schatz

David Schatz is doing his Bachelor's degree in Computational Linguistics (75%) and Psychology (25%). He also works as a student assistant for programming, data-driven research and data engineering in the humanities and has a research focus on recognising and analysing cultural patterns using LLMs.

david.schatz@stud.uni-heidelberg.de

Jonathan Gaede

Jonathan Gaede studied German Studies and Digital Humanities at JMU Würzburg and supports the HCDH in the conception and implementation of workshops on DH topics and in communication with the research community. His interdisciplinary dissertation project examines the role of astrological-alchemical secret symbols and “special characters” in the scientific literature of the early modern period.

jonathan.gaede@hcts.uni-heidelberg.de

Laurien Dröge

Laurien Dröge is a student assistant at the HCDH, responsible for Public Relations. She completed her B.A. in Transculturality in 2024 at Heinrich-Heine University in Düsseldorf and is now pursuing her M.A. in Transcultural Studies at Heidelberg University.

laurien.droege@stud.uni-heidelberg.de

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