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The Team
The team
A team of two project leaders, four research assistants and several student assistants are working on VerbaAlpina in the background and here on Zooniverse. We’d like to introduce you to a few of the people behind the project.
Prof. Thomas Krefeld - Project leader of VerbaAlpina
Thomas Krefeld is professor for linguistics at the Institute for Romance Philology at Munich University. He founded VerbaAlpina together with Dr. Stephan Lücke.
Dr. Stephan Lücke - Project leader of VerbaAlpina
Stephan Lücke is deputy director of the LMU Center for Digital Humanities. He founded VerbaAlpina together with Prof. Thomas Krefeld.
Filip Hristov - student assistant
Filip has recently finished his master’s degree in computer science. During his studies he worked as a student assistant for VerbaAlpina. He set up VerbaAlpina on Zooniverse and has been with the project from the start.
Beatrice Colcuc - Research assistant
Beatrice is a research assistant in Romance studies. She is mainly responsible for the transcription and the typification of Romance linguistic attestations from atlases and dictionaries in the Alpine region as well as from the crowd.
David Englmeier - Research assistant
David is one of the two computer scientist who work for VerbaAlpina. He mainly takes care of the web design, i.e. the visualisation and mapping of the linguistic data in the project VerbaAlpina.
Christina Mutter - Research assistant
Christina is the project coordinator of VerbaAlpina and helped to set up VerbaAlpina on Zooniverse. She is a talk board moderator and is happy to answer questions and take suggestions from the community relating to VerbaAlpina.
Florian Zacherl - Research assistant
Together with David, Florian is responsible for the IT part of VerbaAlpina. His focus is on system architecture, data modelling and interface development.
If you have questions about VerbaAlpina, please feel free to contact VerbaAlpina@itg.uni-muenchen.de at any time.
