Ada Lovelace Center for Digital Humanities (ADA)

Eliese-Sophia Lincke is Juniorprofessor of Computational Philology and Data Science of the Languages of the Ancient World at the Department of History and Cultural Studies at Freie Universität Berlin, as well as at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. Informed by the characteristics of ancient non-Western languages and their writing systems, by the complexities of text transmission and the state of preservation, she develops and teaches data modeling and methods of Ancient Language Processing. In her work and teaching, she utilizes Machine Learning techniques for (semi-)automatic digitization, annotation, and analysis, primarily of Egyptian and Coptic texts.

Vita
Eliese-Sophia Lincke serves as the speaker of the Forum Digital Antiquities at the Berliner Antike-Kolleg and board member of the network Digital Ancient Near Eastern Studies (DANES). She received her MA in Egyptology and Modern and Contemporary History from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (2007) and completed her doctorate at the Cluster of Excellence 264: Topoi. The Formation and Transformation of Space and Knowledge in Ancient Civilizations in 2018, where she applied a typological approach to Sahidic Coptic prepositions. Before her appointment in 2022, she held positions as a research assistant at the Institute of Archaeology at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, a visiting researcher at the Göttingen Centre for Digital Humanities at Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, and a lexicographer in the DFG project Database and Dictionary of Greek Loanwords in Coptic at Freie Universität Berlin.