Frank Fischer

Professor of Digital Humanities at Freie Universität Berlin (homepage)

Cluster of Excellence 2020 »Temporal Communities: Doing Literature in a Global Perspective« (homepage) (PI)
Friedrich Schlegel Graduiertenschule für literaturwissenschaftliche Studien (PI)

18th–21st Century Literature, Computational Literary Studies, World Literature, European Drama, Network Analysis, Artificial Neural Networks for the Study of Literature, Linked Open Data, Research Infrastructures for Literary Studies

Digital Observatory of World Literature – project lead (2023–)
QUADRIGA (Berlin-Brandenburgisches Datenkompetenzzentrum für Digital Humanities und Verwaltungswissenschaft) – WP leader (2023–2026)
DraCorOS (Fostering Open Science in Digital Humanities by connecting the DraCor Ecosystem to EOSC) – PI (2025–2026)
COMUTE (Collation of Multilingual Texts) – (2023–2026)
Le Sonntag dans le contexte des Humanités numériques – (2023–)
CLS INFRA (Computational Literary Studies) – steering committee and WP leader (2021–2025)
DraCor – multilingual Drama Corpora platform (a showcase for Programmable Corpora) – editor-in-chief (2017–) (Rahtz Prize for TEI Ingenuity 2022 🏆, YERUN Open Science Award 2023 🏆)
Einakter – database of German-language one-act plays (2020–)
Vossian Antonomasia – neural-network-based extraction methods for a special form of antonomasia, a project in cooperation with colleagues from Berlin School of Library and Information Science at Humboldt University (2017–)

2017–2021: Director of DARIAH-EU (Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities), Berlin – Paris – Dublin – The Hague
2016–2021: Ass. Prof. of Digital Humanities at Higher School of Economics, Moscow
2013–2016: Digital Humanities Coordinator at University of Göttingen
2009–2013: PhD student at Forschungszentrum »Laboratorium Aufklärung«, University of Jena
2007–2009: Research associate at Leipzig University Library (DFG-funded)
2005: Copy editor of the 21st edition of the Brockhaus Encyclopaedia at Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig – Mannheim
2003: Internship at Goethe Institute, Buenos Aires
2001–2002: Middlesex University London (Erasmus Programme)
1997–2003: MA student of Computer Science and German Studies at University of Leipzig