Experience
Lecturer in Computing & Communication
Milton Keynes, United Kingdom
06.01.2020 - Present
Teaching in the area of Networking and Web Development. Research into Interactive Information Retrieval, Digital Cultural Heritage, and Digital Humanities
Lecturer in Human-Computer-Interaction
Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom
01.10.2019 - 03.01.2020
Providing teaching cover for modules in the HCI/IoT area
Junior Professor for eHumanities
Halle (Saale), Germany
01.01.2018 - 30.09.2019
Research and Teaching in the field of eHumanities / Digital Humanities.
Ormskirk, United Kingdom
30.09.2013 - 01.12.2017
Teaching a variety of modules ranging from an introduction to programming to the development of mobile web applications.
Research focuses on the areas of information visualisation, particularly for qualitative data, the question of how to give a user an overview over a given data-set, and the user evaluation of interactive information retrieval systems.
Sheffield, United Kingdom
01.11.2012 - 27.09.2013
Working on the `PROMISE
`_ EU project with a focus on developing an evaluation framework and test-bed for Interactive Information Retrieval.
Sheffield, United Kingdom
01.02.2011 - 27.09.2013
Working on the `PATHS
`_ project that aims to develop novel user-interfaces for accessing digital Cultural Heritage collections.
London, United Kingdom
01.04.2010 - 31.01.2011
My work focused on developing an automatic geo-referencing system for historical records. This made it possible to automatically locate historic documents for a given place or area. In addition I developed some sample applications, such as the Domesday on a Map.
Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom
01.01.2010 - 31.03.2011
My work focused on developing and maintaining the demonstration systems for the Tripod EU project in the run-up to the final review.
Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom
01.10.2009 - 31.01.2010
I wrote, taught, and examined the “Internet Computing” course that is part of the M.Sc. degree in the School of Computer Science and Informatics.
Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom
01.01.2007 - 31.12.2009
PhD studentship on the Tripod project researching methods for the automatic translation between natural language and co-ordinate representations of locations.
Klagenfurt, Carinthia, Austria
01.10.2006 - 28.02.2007
I part-wrote, taught, and examined an “Introduction to Computers Science” course that is part of the Geographic Information Systems specialisation of the Geography degree at the Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt.
Self-Employed
Software Consultant
Klagenfurt, Carinthia, Austria
01.06.2006 - 31.07.2006
Contract-work to develop an HTML+CSS rendering system.
Klagenfurt, Carinthia, Austria
01.11.2004 - 30.06.2006
Employed on the HarmonISA EU project to develop a system for automatically integrating land-use and land-cover data-sets from Austria, Italy, and Slovenia.
Klagenfurt, Carinthia, Austria
01.12.2003 - 31.03.2004
With a colleague we developed an on-line system for digitising historic documents for the History Department.
Klagenfurt, Carinthia, Austria
01.07.2001 - 30.11.2003
I was responsible for the introduction, development and maintenance of an on-line course management system.
Education
Edge Hill University
Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching in Higher Education
Ormskirk, United Kingdom
01.01.2014 - 12.11.2015
My work looked at the potential negative impact of various quality assurance processes on the quality of higher education.
Cardiff University
PhD in Computer Science
Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom
01.01.2007 - 01.02.2011
My PhD focused on developing quantitative models for spatial prepositions. Based on these quantitative models I developed systems for automatically interpreting and generating spatial-language expressions that can be tried out online. The PhD was conducted in the context of the Tripod EU project and is available from the `publications <{filename}../pages/publications.rst>`_, as are a number of papers on various aspects of the work.
Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt
Diplom Ingenieur
Klagenfurt, Carinthia, Austria
04.11.2005 - 04.05.2006
Equivalent to a M.Sc. in Computer Science. My specialisation was in Knowledge Engineering and Geographical Information systems, which led to my master thesis “A Semantic Similarity Measure for Formal Ontologies”.
Bakkalaureus der technischen Wissenschaften
Equivalent to a B.Sc. in Computer Science with a specialisation in Computational Linguistics.
Awards
TPDL 2017
Best Paper Award - Honorary Mention
Thessaloniki, Greece
18.09.2017 - 21.09.2017
Honorable mention in the best paper award for the paper "The Ghost in the Museum Website: Investigating the General Public's Interactions with Museum Websites".
iConference 2016
Best Paper Award
Philadelphia, USA
20.03.2016 - 23.03.2016
Best poster award for the poster “Analyzing the influence of Language Proficiency on Interactive Book Search Behaviour” at the iConference 2016, Philadelphia.
TPDL 2013
Best Poster Award
Malta
23.09.2013 - 25.09.2013
Best Poster award for the poster titled “Regional Effects on Query Reformulation Patterns” at TPDL 2013, Malta.
Europeana Hackathon
Innovation Prize
Leuven, Netherlands
13.06.2012 - 15.06.2012
Won the “Innovation” prize at the Europeana Hackathon in Leuven 2012 with the Storyana system.
EuropeanaTech Hackathon
Third Place
Vienna, Austria
03.10.2011 - 05.10.2011
Won third place at the EuropeanaTech Hackathon 2011 in Vienna, with the Wikiana system.
ACM GIS'08
Best poster-presentation
Irvine, CA, USA
05.11.2008 - 07.11.2008
Best poster-presentation at the ACM GIS 2008 conference in Irvine, California, USA
Training
Digital Humanities & Language Resources
Joint "Culture & Technology" and CLARIN-D European Summer School
Leipzig, Germany
20.07.2014 - 03.08.2014
Participated in the "Culture & Technology" and CLARIN-D European Summer School on digital humanities, focusing on machine learning techniques.
Edge Hill University
Training Workshops
Ormskirk, United Kingdom
30.09.2013 - 01.12.2017
Undertook a number of training workshops on topics including grant writing, programme design, research degree supervision, being a principal investigator, postgraduate recruitment, and writing for publication.
University of Sheffield
Sheffield Teaching Assistant Programme
Sheffield, United Kingdom
01.11.2011 - 31.12.2011
Completed the University of Sheffield Teaching Assistant Programme which included 1-day sessions on assessment & feedback, supervising research projects, small-group teaching, and large-group teaching.
Cardiff University
1-Day Training Workshops
Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom
01.01.2007 - 31.12.2009
Undertook a number of 1-day training workshops on topics including project management, plagiarism, lab demonstration, small-group teaching, lecturing, and the philosophy of science.