Eckhart Arnold is a Munich-based IT and Digital Humanities leader with 11 years of experience bridging academic research, teaching, and software development. As Leiter des Referats für IT und Digital Humanities at the Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, he builds DH infrastructure, oversees retrodigitalization projects and drives the creation of the Digital Humanities Munich network. Trained as a summa‑cum laude philosopher with deep expertise in philosophy of science, computational simulation and the evolution of cooperation, he uniquely combines rigorous theoretical scholarship with hands-on programming for research workflows. His work spans publishing and teaching roles across German universities and includes a recent DH parser project, reflecting a pragmatic interest in tooling that makes humanities data interoperable and reusable.
11 years of coding experience
Promotion, Philosophie, summa cum laude, Promotion, Philosophie, summa cum laude at Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
Magister, Politische Wissenschaften, Öffentliches Recht, Philosophie, Magister, Politische Wissenschaften, Öffentliches Recht, Philosophie at Universität Bonn
DSL-Toolkit for Digital Humanities Applications (mirrors gitlab.lrz.de/badw-it/DHParser)
Contributions:1883 commits, 4 PRs, 740 pushes in 6 years
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