SCDH Team

Digital Humanities (DH) is teamwork. In the SCDH, experts from the (digital) humanities work closely together with research software engineers (software developers) to configure, adapt and further develop DH tools. The goal is both project-specific solutions as well as generic, user-friendly DH services. In our work we are supported by staff members of the ULB Münster in special areas of competence (e.g. scholarly communication or research data management).

You can find out who we are on this page.

Dr. Jan Horstmann

https://jan-horstmann.de | Mastodon: @janhorstmannn | ORCID: 0000-0001-8047-2232

Function in the SCDH

• Head
• Consultation and communication
• Strategy development
• Networking with the DH community
• Management CDH

Main focus

• Text analysis (distant reading methods and digital close reading/annotation)
• Computational Literary Studies
• Visualization
• Narratology
• Theater

Education

• 04/2013-11/2016: PhD (summa cum laude), University of Hamburg.
  Topic: " Theater Narratology. A Narratological Method for Analyzing Stage Performances".
  Supervision: Prof. Dr. Jan Christoph Meister; Prof. Dr. Inke Gunia
• 05/2015 - 08/2015: Research visit at the University of Aarhus (Denmark) funded by the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes
• 2013-2016: PhD scholarship of the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes (German National Academic Foundation)
• 10/2010-11/2012: Master of Arts (German-language literatures), University of Hamburg
• 10/2007-09/2010: Bachelor of Arts (German Studies and History), University of Münster, Germany

Work experience

• since 07/2021: Head of Service Center for Digital Humanities, University of Münster, Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek
• 02/2020-06/2021: Head of Digital Lab and Manager at the Research Network Marbach Weimar Wolfenbüttel, Klassik Stiftung Weimar
• 05/2017-01/2020: Project Coordinator (Postdoc) DFG Project forTEXT. Literatur digital erforschen, University of Hamburg, Institute of German Studies
• 08/2016-04/2017: Research assistant in the Digital Humanities project Entsagung bei Goethe, University of Hamburg, Institute of German Studies

Personal

Likes to be not too serious from time to time.

Reading literature, playing the piano, going to the theater (plays), drinking coffee, chatting with friends, protecting the environment, swimming

Dr. Immanuel Normann

ORCID: 0000-0003-4702-1282

Function in the SCDH

• Software development coordinator
• Consulting
• Requirements management
• Architecture design

Main focus

• Knowledge modeling / Semanticweb technology
• Semantic search and knowledge presentation
• DH service design

Education

• Study of physics at the University of Tübingen
• Diploma in Physics at the Institute for Neural Information Processing at the TU Berlin
• Doctoral thesis in the field of formal methods at Jacobs University Bremen with Prof. Kohlhase

Work experience

• Research assistant in the field of eLearning at the DFKI Saarbrücken
• PostDoc in a cultural heritage project at Birkbeck College in London
• Development of the DH department as an employee at a publishing service provider

Personal

Open Knowledge, philosophy, art, playing the piano

Katharina Dietz, M.A.

ORCID: 0000-0001-7405-3656

Function in the SCDH

• Research Software Engineer

Main focus

• Main project: Prof. Dr. Niko Strobach: Heinrich Scholz und die Schule von Münster. Mathematische Logik und Grundlagenforschung
• Thematic priorities: text recognition, natural language processing, python

Education

• Master's Degree in Computational Linguistics and German Language Studies at the University of Trier

Work experience

• Research assistant at the University of Trier, Project: MiMoText, (professional scope: information retrieval)
• Software engineer at university's library Trier, Project: Dietrich online, professional scope: OCR
• IT Auditor at KPMG Luxemburg
• Various positions as a student assistant in the area of Digital Humanities and IT support

Personal

• Commuting between Trier and Münster
• I'm quite surprised that not half of the university in Münster is bouldering like in Trier :-D

Ingo Frank, M.A.

Knowledge Commons | ORCID: 0000-0003-0372-3637 | X | GitHub

Function in the SCDH

Knowledge engineer

Main focus

• ontology-based information systems (Semantic Web and linked data technologies)
• applied ontology (design of information system ontologies informed by philosophical ontology)
• knowledge representation and knowledge organisation
• knowledge mapping and diagrammatic reasoning for the Digital Humanities

Education

• M.A. in Philosophy and Information Science, University of Regensburg, master thesis in Philosophy of Science at the Chair for Theoretical Philosophy (Prof. Dr. Hans Rott)
• diploma (FH) [B.Sc. equivalent] in Computer Science, Regensburg University of Applied Sciences, diploma thesis in Artificial Intelligence at the Laboratory for Databases and Artificial Intelligence (Prof. Jürgen Sauer)

Work experience

• 12/2022 – 06/2024: research associate in the Department of Manuscripts and Special Collections at the Herzog August Library in Wolfenbüttel (DFG project Handschriftenportal (HSP))
• 03/2019 – 06/2024: research associate in the Library and Electronic Research Infrastructure department at the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies in Regensburg (from July 2021 DigiKAR project in the Leibniz Cooperative Excellence funding program, until February 2022 DFG joint project OstData)
• 01/2019 – 06/2021: library IT specialist in the Library and Electronic Research Infrastructure department at the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies in Regensburg (development of the research data infrastructure and collaboration on the GeoPortOst map portal)
• 11/2015 – 10/2018: research associate at the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies in Regensburg (junior research group Frozen and Unfrozen Conflicts)
• 11/2014 – 10/2015: research associate at the Historical Commission at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Munich (DFG project for the digital edition of the German Biography)

Personal

"The scientist builds in order to study; the engineer studies in order to build." – Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.

Matthias Kayß

Function in the SCDH

• Research Communication

Main focus

• Development of narratives
• Networking
• Visualizations
• Branding
• Conceptual work Citizen Science

Education

• Studies of philosophy, catholic theology and sociology (M.A.)

Work experience

• Philosophy department at the ULB Münster (2003 to 2019)
• Head of the Public Relations Office of the ULB Münster (until 2014)
• Head of the department of academic library services in the field of social, educational and communication studies at the ULB Münster (until 2018)

Personal

"Late father" since January 2020. And if there is still strength and time left: Philosophy, Politics and Alternative Living ...

Dr. Christian Lück

Github: `lueck`

Function in the SCDH

Research Software Engineer

Main focus

• digital edition
• manual and automatic annotation, standoff markup
• text analysis and information extraction
• language technologies
• data analysis
• network analysis
• literary studies: law and literature, history of German studies, theories of example, discourse analysis, media theory

Education

• Studies (M.A.) in modern German literature, germ. linguistics and philosophy
• Doctorate (summa cum laude) in Modern German Literary Studies at the Ruhr-University Bochum with a thesis on the relationship between law and philology in the 19th century, supervised by Manfred Schneider
• a couple of winter terms in physics and computer science

Work experience

• Development of a database of examples in the discourse of philosophy (from 2006)
• Research assistant in the DFG project Das Beispiel im Wissen der Ästhetik (1750-1850) by Prof. Dr. Michael Niehaus (FernUniversität in Hagen, 2016-2019)
• Development of a study program Digital Humanities at the Fernuniversität in Hagen

Personal

lives in Bochum with his bicycle among cars; has put his pilot's license to rest, is interested in the navigation of flying insects; recently member of NABU

Jan-Erik Stange

Function in the SCDH

• Project support in the area of UX and data visualisation
• Organisation of participative design processes for projects

Main focus

• Critical and reflexive data visualisation
• Text data visualisation
• User experience design / participatory design

Education

• 2009 - 2011: Interface Design (M.A.), University of Applied Sciences Potsdam
• 2005 - 2008: Industrial Design (B.A.), Muthesius University of Art Kiel

Work experience

• Since 2023: Research assistant (UX and data visualisation), ULB Münster, SCDH and IE
• 2020 - 2022: Research Assistant (UX and Data Visualisation), FU Berlin, Cluster of Excellence "Temporal Communities".
• 2019 - 2021: Design Lead, ATLAS.ti Scientific Software Development GmbH
• 2017 - 2018: Research Assistant (Data Visualisation), University of Hamburg
• 2015 - 2017: Research Assistant (Data Visualisation), UAS Potsdam, Urban Complexity Lab (UCLab)
• 2013 - 2014: Research assistant (UX and data visualisation), UAS Potsdam, Interaction Design Lab (IDL)

Personal

I am interested in electronic music, literature, design, computer art and architecture (especially post-war modernism but also postmodernism).

Katrin Steiner

Function and focus in the SCDH

• Accompanying DH certificate
• Research Communication

Education

• Studies of English and History (Sek. I and Sek. II) in Marburg, York and Münster
• Study of Information and Library Science (MALIS) in Cologne (part-time)

Work experience

• Head of LOTSE-II project, funded by DFG (2008-2010)
• Head of the project Quality of Teaching - Subproject Information Literacy (2012-2019)
• Consultant for information literacy (2008-2019)

Personal

Making radio, alternative living, cooperative games, growing vegetables by myself

Dennis Voltz, M.A.

GitHub

Function and focus in the SCDH

• Software development and consulting
• Frontend development with JavaScript
• Backend/API development with Python
• Machine Learning & NLP
• Continuous Integration & Continuous Deployment
• Dockerization & Cloud Technologies
• Search engines

Dr.  Benjamin Weber

ORCID: 0009-0005-0712-9485

Rolle im SCDH

• Research Software Engineer

Main focus

• Natural Language Processing
• Digital Editions
• Semantic Web Technologies

Education

• Studies in Philosophy and Linguistics in Trier and Munich
• PhD in General Linguistics and Language Typology
• Machine Learning & Data Science Bootcamp in Munich

Work experience

• Research Assistant at the Institute for General Linguistics and Language Typology at the University of Munich (LMU)

Personal

Escapes the screen and goes hiking in the non-existent mountains surrounding Cologne

Mirko Westermeier

mirko.westermeier.de | GitHub | Mastodon | Public Key BF62F357

Function in the SCDH

• Research Software Engineer
• Deputy Coffee Bean Manager

Main focus

• Full stack web development
• Unit and integration testing
• Continuous Deployment
• Version control strategies and training

Education

• Graduate computer scientist "with integrated application subject mathematics"

Work experience

• Web development
• Semi-supervised machine learning
• Research assistant in the AG Vahrenhold, Efficient Algorithms and Algorithm Engineering, University of Münster, Germany

Personal

Enthusiastic salsa dancer, DJ, choreographer and teacher, pilot of remote-controlled helicopters, open-source enthusiast, amateur pianist, accordionist, music producer, photographer and gambler

Vincent Anker

Function in the SCDH

• Student assistant

Education

• since 10/2021: Master's Teaching Degree Programme for Secondary Schools
• 10/2017-09/2021: Bachelor studies in Mathematics and History, University of Münster

Personal

Sports-minded film and book enthusiast

Alumni

• Celine Albers

  

  LinkedIn

  Function in the SCDH (2022–2023)

  • Student assistant
  • Research Communication

• Diego Siqueira

  

  GitHub | ORCID

  Function in the SCDH (2018-2021)

  • Software development
  • Consulting
  • Jira and Confluence administration

• Dr. Marc Schutzeichel

  Function in the SCDH (2019–2021)

  • Interim management of SCDH and DH Coordinator at the University of Münster
  • 2016: Founding member of the Digital Humanities Initiative at the University of Münster for the establishment of a DH center at the University of Münster

• Melanie Althage

  

  Website | ORCID | Twitter

  Function in the SCDH (2019–2020)

  • Student assistant

• Prof. Dr. Torsten Hiltmann

  Function in the SCDH (2017-2019)

  • Setup and management