Curriculum Vitae

Nils Reiter studied computational linguistics and computer science at Saarland University. He did his PhD in a collaboration project between classical indology and computational linguistics at Heidelberg University (SFB on ritual dynamics) and then worked at Stuttgart University as a scientific coordinator and investigator in the Centre for Reflected Text Analytics (CRETA). Since Summer 2017, he is also PI of the mixed-methods-Project QuaDramA on the quantitative analysis of dramatic texts. Since October 2021 he is Professor for Digital Humanities and Computational Linguistics at the University of Cologne, and head of the Data Center for the Humanities which provides research data management services and consulting to the faculty. His research interests mostly are related to operationalization questions, particularly with respect to literary research questions and concepts.

Professional Experience

• since October 2021
  • Professor for Digital Humanities and Computational Linguistics at the Department of Digital Humanities, University of Cologne
• September 2019 – September 2021
  • Vertretungsprofessur Sprachliche Informationsverarbeitung at the Institute for Digital Humanities, Cologne University
• April 2014 – August 2019
  • Postdoc and tenured researcher at the Institute of Natural Language Processing (IMS), Stuttgart University
• October 2007 – March 2014
  • Researcher at Department of Computational Linguistics, Heidelberg University

Education

• November 2013
  • PhD in Computational Linguistics at Heidelberg University, Germany
  • Thesis title: Discovering Structural Similarities in Narrative Texts using Event Alignment Algorithms at Heidelberg University
  • Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Anette Frank
• October 2002 – September 2007:
  • Computational Linguistics with Computer Science as minor subject at Saarland University, Saarbrücken
  • Diploma thesis title: Towards a Linking of FrameNet and SUMO
• September 2000 – September 2002:
  • Commercial Information Technology (“Wirtschaftsinformatik”) at University of Applied Sciences Kaiserslautern in Zweibrücken
• June 2000:
  • Diploma from German secondary school qualifying for university admission or matriculation (“Abitur”) at Ziehenschule, Frankfurt am Main, Germany