Ada Lovelace Center for Digital Humanities (ADA)

Hubert Mara is Professor of Archaeoinformatics at the Free University of Berlin. His research focus is on methods for computational analysis (3D and 2D) of archaeological finds on excavations and in museums. This includes the automatic recognition and annotation of 3D features such as cuneiform writing on clay tablets or Minoan and Mycenaean seal impressions. In the case of text-bearing objects, he is dedicated to processing the transliterations or transcriptions and visualizations of archaeological finds obtained from digitized data. This also includes the development of standards for their metadata in collaboration with NFDI4Objects in order to make the data usable for further research projects.  Other research interests include methods for automatically determining the age of digitized finds. 

Vita
Hubert Mara is a member of the Digital Ancient Near Eastern Studies (DANES) network and the advisory board of the German chapter of the Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (AG CCA-DE) organisation as well as co-chair of the working group 3D-Annotation von Meshes mit dem Web Annotation Data Model of the consortium NFDI4Objects. He studied Computer Science (Diploma 2006) and Computer Science Management (Mag. 2008) at the Vienna University of Technology. After a Marie Curie Fellowship at the University of Florence (2008-09), he received his PhD from the University of Heidelberg (2012). Before joining Freie Universität, he was a tenure-track junior professor for eHumanities at the Institute of Computer Science at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, director and founder of the Forensic Computational Geometry Laboratory at the Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing (IWR) of Heidelberg University and managing director of the Mainz Centre for Digitality in the Humanities and Cultural Studies (mainzed) at the Mainz University of Applied Sciences.