With nearly a decade of experience in digital product management and academic research, I bridge technical innovation and the humanities, with a hands-on approach to leading teams and projects.
Experience
Product Owner @idealo (Oct 2022 – Present)
Leading product development for one of Europe’s most visited e-commerce homepage, focusing on enhancing user engagement and business growth by creating a world-class user experience.
Doctoral Fellow @Foundation for the Study of the Communist Dictatorship (Nov 2021 – Oct 2022)
Researching the history of musicology in the GDR, contributing to the academic discourse on cultural policies and their influence on the field.
Coordination Lead @Academy of Sciences and Literature (Oct 2020 – Jul 2021)
Managing the NFDI4Culture project, which developes a digital infrastructure for cultural heritage data, and facilitates collaboration among national cultural institutions.
Research Software Engineer @Academy of Sciences and Literature (Apr 2017 – Sep 2020)
Contributing to international digital humanities projects, developing software solutions for research data aggregation in musicology, and supporting academic research proposals with technical expertise.
Research Assistant @Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz (Jun 2015 – Sep 2016)
Assisting in editorial work and web development for the MassDataBase in a DFG research project on early mass compositions.
Working Student @SinnerSchrader AG (Nov 2014 – May 2015)
Supporting digital content management and web development teams in delivering innovative digital solutions for clients.
Working Student @ZDF (May 2013 – Oct 2014)
Collaborating with editorial teams to curate and select music for television productions, enhancing the quality of media content.
Education
PhD Candidate @Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz (2017 – 2024)
Doctoral thesis submitted on “Apparat Musikwissenschaft – A History of Music Research in the German Democratic Republic.“
MA in Musicology from Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz (2014 – 2016)
Focusing on the intersection of music history, technology, and cultural studies.
BA in Film Science & Musicology from Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz (2011 – 2014)
Exploring the connections between film, music, and media.
Key Research Projects
NFDI4Culture
A national project aimed at creating a demand-oriented research infrastructure for tangible and intangible cultural heritage data.
IncipitSearch
A web platform for searching notated music, which also includes a web service and API for open music data.
Gluck-Werkverzeichnis-online
A digital catalog raisonné of Christoph Willibald Gluck’s musical works, providing an online resource for international research into the composer’s oeuvre.
Portal Kleine Fächer
An information portal that visualizes the development of small academic disciplines in Germany, offering geographical displays and statistical analyses.
AGATE
A European research information system for the Union of German Academies of Sciences and Humanities, enhancing the visibility and accessibility of research data by science academys across Europe.
Awards and Recognitions
Paul Fortier Prize from the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) (2018)
Awarded at the Digital Humanities Conference in Mexico City for presenting IncipitSearch, a platform that interlinks musicological repositories, advancing the field of digital musicology.
Jugend filmt Bionik, 2nd Place (2011)
Awarded for a short movie that explored the intersection of science and media.
Publications
Articles
- „On 19th-century ‘Musicosmopolitanism’: Tracing the publishing entrepreneur Julius Schuberth (1804–1875)”. In: Transatlantic Perspectives on Hidden 19th Century Music Cultures, edited by Stefanie Acquavella-Rauch and Nico Schüler, forthcoming Berlin 2025.
- Co-authored with Prof. Dr. Anna Neovesky: „Interconnecting music repositories with semantic web technologies – an RDF- and schema.org-based approach”. In: Digital Scholarship in the Humanities 36/1 (2020), pp. i49–i54. https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqaa019.
- Co-authored with Prof. Dr. Anna Neovesky: „IncipitSearch – Leitfaden zur Zusammenarbeit”. In: Brückenschläge zwischen Musikwissenschaft und Informatik. Theoretische und praktische Aspekte der Kooperation, in collaboration with the Digital Musicology Group, edited by Stefanie Acquavella-Rauch, Andreas Münzmay, and Joachim Veit, Detmold 2020 (Musikwissenschaft: Aktuelle Perspektiven. Bericht über die Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Musikforschung 2019 in Paderborn und Detmold 3), pp. 41–52. https://doi.org/10.25366/2020.93.
- „Opernsplitter des 19. Jahrhunderts – Zur Agnes von Carl Krebs”. In: Christoph Willibald Gluck, Sein Opernschaffen Bezüge, Reaktionen, Perspektiven, edited by Gwendolyn Döring, Mainz 2018, pp. 155–166.
Posters
- Co-authored with Sebastian Lange and Maximilian Kopp: „AGATE: Ein Forschungsinformationssystem für offene Akademienforschung”, Open Access Days 2020, Bielefeld, 16 September 2020. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4018506.
- Co-authored with Sebastian Lange: „AGATE: A CRIS on the Way to Europe”, 15th RDA Plenary Meeting, Melbourne, 18 March 2020. https://www.rd-alliance.org/agate-cris-way-europe.
- Co-authored with Prof. Dr. Anna Neovesky: „IncipitSearch – Leitfaden zur Zusammenarbeit”, Annual Meeting of the German Society for Musicology, Paderborn/Detmold, 13 September 2019. https://doi.org/10.25366/2020.93.
- Co-authored with Prof. Dr. Anna Neovesky: „IncipitSearch – A Guide to Collaboration”, Digital Humanities Conference 2019, Utrecht, 11 July 2019. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3349643.
- Co-authored with Prof. Dr. Anna Neovesky: „IncipitSearch – Vernetzung Musikwissenschaftlicher Vorhaben”, Digital Humanities in the German-speaking World (DHd) 2018, Cologne, 28 February 2018. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1182430.
- Co-authored with Prof. Dr. Anna Neovesky: „Perspektiven digitaler Werkverzeichnisse: IncipitSearch am Beispiel der Gluck Gesamtausgabe”, Annual Meeting of the German Society for Musicology, Kassel, 28 September 2017.
Teaching
- Digitale Musikwissenschaft. Das ABC der akustischen Welt, International Summer School, Mainz 2020. https://digitale-methodik.adwmainz.net/mod5/5c/slides/digitalMusicology/.
- Methods and tools for annotating music, International Summer School, Mainz 2019. https://digitale-methodik.adwmainz.net/mod5/5c/slides/digitalMusicology/annotation/.
Lectures
- „Digitalisierung, Daten, digitale Methoden. Zu den Chancen und Herausforderungen der digitalen Transformation im Bereich kleiner Fächer”, Keynote (invited), Workshop „Digitalisierung in Lehre und Forschung kleiner Fächer,” Online Event, 5 November 2020.
- Panel: „Deciphering Encoded Music: Increasing Access to Open Data Resources” with Joanna Devaney, Natalia Ermolaev, Anna Kijas, Mark Saccomano, Raffaele Viglianti, Frederic von Vlahovits, DH 2020 „carrefours/intersection,” Ottawa, 20–25 July 2020 (online).
- „Perspektiven für die Fachgeschichte der Musikwissenschaft: Die Berichte über die Musikwissenschaftlichen Arbeiten der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik als Datenquelle künftiger Forschung”, Wissenstransfer über Grenzen und Zeitenwenden. Die Wissenschaftsgeschichte der Gesellschaftswissenschaften in der DDR 1970–1989, Frankfurt (Oder), 16–17 April 2020.
- „Musicological Incipit Research Interlinked”, Conference of the International Association for Music Libraries, Archives, and Documentation Centres (IAML), 27 July 2018, Leipzig (co-authored with Prof. Dr. Anna Neovesky).
- Digital Humanities 2018 ‘Puentes/Bridges,’ Mexico City, 26–29 June 2018: „IncipitSearch – Interlinking Musicological Repositories” (co-authored with Prof. Dr. Anna Neovesky). https://dh2018.adho.org/en/incipitsearch-interlinking-musicological-repositories/.
- Digital Humanities Austria, Innsbruck, 4–6 December 2017: „IncipitSearch – Digitale Notensuche” (co-authored with Prof. Dr. Anna Neovesky). https://digicademy.github.io/2017-DHA.
- AG eHumanities der Union der deutschen Akademien der Wissenschaften, Düsseldorf, 9 September 2016: „Ebenen der Nachnutzung von Forschungsdaten in der Mainzer Akademie” (co-authored with Prof. Dr. Aline Deicke et al.). https://digicademy.github.io/2016-agehum-ddorf/.