Kai-Christian Bruhn

Kai-Christian Bruhn, 2016

Kai-Christian Bruhn (born January 24, 1970 in Hamburg ) is a German specialist in archaeoinformatics and digital humanities .

Live and act

Kai-Christian Bruhn studied from 1991 to 1998 at the Free University of Berlin and the Ruprecht-Karls-University of Heidelberg Classical Archeology , Prehistory and Early History and Near Eastern Archeology . His undergraduate doctorate took place in 2002 at the University of Heidelberg under Tonio Hölscher with a thesis on the oracle temple in the Siwa oasis . From 2000 to 2004 Bruhn was a research associate at the Swiss Institute for Egyptian Building Research and Archeology in Cairo and headed the local excavations in Aswan .

From 2005 to 2008 he worked as a freelancer in the field of measurement and information technology in archeology. Bruhn has been Professor for “Interdisciplinary Applications of Spatial Measurement and Information Technology” at Mainz University since 2008 . Since November 2015 he has been the founding director of mainzed , the Mainz Center for Digitality in the Humanities and Cultural Studies . Since 2016 he has also been an honorary professor at the Department 07 History and Cultural Studies at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and head of the inter-university master’s course “Digital Methodology in the Humanities and Cultural Studies”.

Research priorities

His research focuses on archaeo-informatics and digital humanities . Bruhn deals with digital documentation , geographic information systems and the interoperability of research data . He transfers concepts of spatial data infrastructure to the humanities and cultural sciences and works in the field of spatial humanities a . a. with data curation , databases , geoinformatics , long-term archiving , semantic web and linked open data .

Awards

In 2017 Bruhn was awarded the Academy Prize of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate for his achievements in teaching and research.

Volunteering

Kai-Christian Bruhn has been Deputy Chairman of the CAA - Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archeology eV group since 2017

Fonts

Ammoniaca I. "No temple of splendor" Architecture and history of the temple from the time of Amasis on Agurmi, Siwa oasis. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2010, ISBN 978-3-447-05713-4 (dissertation)

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Individual evidence

personal data
SURNAME	Bruhn, Kai-Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German specialist in archaeological informatics and digital humanities
DATE OF BIRTH	January 24, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hamburg

[1] Swiss Institute for Egyptian Building Research and Antiquity in Cairo Text on Syene / Aswan

[2] Academy Award of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate

[3] AG CAA About Us