Curriculum Vitae

Work Experience

2012: Visiting scholar at the University of Victoria, BC, Canada
since 2009: Würzburg University
Research Associate and Lecturer at the "Lehrstuhl für Computerphilologie und Neuere Deutsche Literaturgeschichte" (Prof. Dr. Fotis Jannidis)
Director of the Würzburg Research Centre for Digital Editing
2007-2009: National University of Ireland, Galway
Marie Curie Research Fellow and member of the international research programme TEXTE (Transfer of Expertise in Technologies of Editing).
2004-2007: Siemens, Berlin
Senior Management Consultant. Public Sector Market, i.e. adminstration and government in Germany and abroad. Main projects: Mega Cities, Electronic Government, Records Management and digital archiving.
2001-2004: debis / T-Systems, Berlin
Consultant and Project Manager. Public Sector Market, mainly local administration in Germany (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Brandenburg, and Baden-Württemberg). Design and development of tools for the optimisation of administrative processes. Felt like Don Quixote and the windmills...
2000-2001: Bundesdruckerei, Berlin
Software Developer. Design and development of web-based systems for information retrieval in patent publications.
1996-1999: Max Planck Institute for History, Göttingen
Student researcher in Historical Information Sciences (Prof. Dr. Manfred Thaller). Member of the Duderstadt Digitization Project. First thoughts and prototypes for dynamic, digital scholarly editions.

Education

PhD in history from Göttingen University (June 2009). Dissertation "Göttinger Burspraken im 15. Jahrhundert - Entstehung, Entwicklung, Edition" (December 2008): a scholarly digital edition of a multi-layered medieval manuscript, based on TEI encoding and graphs to represent and navigate textual variation. Supervised by Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Petke and Prof. Dr. Hedwig Röckelein.

Magister Artium (MA) in History and Mathematics from Göttingen University (2000).

Business Administration at the Open University (Fernuniversität) Hagen.

Hobbies

I love the outdoors and playing sports, preferably in combination, which is the ideal compensation for my mainly desk-based work. For almost my whole life, I have been very much engaged in orienteering, but I also enjoy a lot (cross-country) running, cycling, mountain biking, hiking, climbing, swimming, skiing, and volleyball. Apart from that, I like reading, chess, listening to music, and being lazy...

Contact

Malte Rehbein
Lehrstuhl für Computerphilologie
Universität Würzburg
Am Hubland, Phil. 8/E/14
97074 Würzburg, Germany
E-Mail: malte (dot) rehbein (at) uni-wuerzburg (dot) de