Ada Lovelace Center for Digital Humanities (ADA)

Frank Fischer is professor of Digital Humanities with a special focus on Computational Literary Studies at Freie Universität Berlin. His research interests include digital research infrastructures, network analysis, especially with regard to transtemporal and transcultural relationships, metadata and linked open data and their significance for literary studies and transdisciplinary research.

Vita
Frank Fischer is a principal investigator and head of Research Area 5: Building Digital Communities at the Cluster of Excellence 2020: Temporal Communities. Doing Literature in Global Perspective and a principal investigator at Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School of Literary Studies as well as Open Access Representative of Freie Universität Berlin. He received his MA Degree in Computer Science and German Studies at University of Leipzig (2003) and holds a PhD in Literature from University of Jena (2012). Before coming to Freie Universität, Frank Fischer was an assistant professor of Digital Humanities at Higher School of Economics (Moscow) and held positions as coordinator of the Göttingen Centre for Digital Humanities and director of the transnational network for digital research in the arts and the humanities, DARIAH-EU: Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities.