Practice-oriented Projects and Cooperations with Businesses, Heritage Conservation, and Museums

• “Caves as Archaeological Contexts. Reassessing Cave Sites through Archaeological and Bioarchaeological Analyses, Using the Northern Franconian Jura as a Case Stury” (03/21 - 05/26)
• “Pre-Columbian Gold and Copper in Costa Rica” (01/22 - 12/25)
• “3D Scanning of Archaeological Finds”
• “Where Have All the Dead Gone? Prehistoric Burials in the Northern Franconian Jura” (10/24 - 09/26)

Current Research Projects

• “Settlement in Dynamic Spaces. Neuenstadt am Kocher and the Civitas Aurelia G(...) as a Model for Urbanizing Processes in Roman Frontier Zones of the 2nd Century CE” (2022-2026)
• Research on the Forum of Xanten
  • “A Monumental Construction in the Urban Fabric of the Colonia Ulpia Traiana?”
    • Scholarly analyses of the so-called administrative palace in the Colonia Ulpia Triana - Xanten (07/23 - 12/26)
    • Scholarly analysis of the finds from excavations in the Roman forum of the Colonia Ulpia Triana - Xanten (05/20 - 12/26)
  • “The Gallo-Roman Ambulatory Temple on Insula 13 of the Colonia Ulpia Triana - Xanten: Cult Practice in a Supraregional Comparison”
• “Settlement-Historical Studies on the Roman Period in Wüttembergisch Franconia” (08/16 - 12/26)
  • Sub-project 1: “The Apollo Grannus Temple of Neuenstadt am Kocher”
  • Sub-project 2: “The Roman Villa of Güglingen-Frauenzimmern and the Burial Monument of Cleebronn”
• “The Roman Cemetery of Bregenz”
• “Research on the Chronology and Morphology of the Raetian Limes”

Knowledge transfer und Cooperation

• State Office for Heritage Conservation Baden-Wüttemberg (Stuttgart Regional Council)
• Xanten Archaeological Park and Museum
• Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Chair of Near Eastern Archaeology
• Bavarian State Office for Heritage Conservation
• Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Comparative Archaeology of the Roman Alpine and Danubian Regions
• Rheinisches Landesmuseum Trier
• German Archaeological Institute, Department of the Orient
• Technical University of Berlin, Department of Historic Building Research

• “KeramBA! Late Medieval and Early Modern Pottery Workshops in the Bamberg Region”
• “Bamberg Teaching and Information System for Medieval and Post-Medieval Ceramics (BaLISminK)” (01/20 - 12/40)
• “Development of a Human-Shaped Floodplain System: The Wiesent River System” (2023 - 2026)
• “Evaluation of the Archaeological Excavations in the Bamberg Cathedral” (05/24 - 02/25)
• “The Early Medieval Slavic Necropolis near Iffelsdorf” (seit 2011)

• “Pollino Archaeological Landscape Project” (07/20 - 10/26)
• “The Bamberg Cathedral”

• “InTraBau - Innovation out of Tradition - Transfer Structures for Sustainable and Climate-Responsible Construction in Existing Structures and Heritage Conservation” (DATIpilot) (2025 - 2028)
• “Visualisation of Environmental Damage Functions on Architectural Monuments - Exemplary Visualisation of Anthropogenically Induced Processes of Change on Culturally Significant Stone Assets” (09/25 - 04/28)
• “Historic Coating Technologies - Sustainable Approaches to Historic Steel Beams and Technical Heritage (HBT)” (08/25 - 07/28)
• “Systematic Re-Documentation and Re-Qualification of Heritage Zones in the Upper Middle Rhine Valley: Cooperative Project by the KDWT and GDKE” (since 2024)
• “Light Protection as a Contribution to Climate Protection in Monumental Heritage. Exemplary Study of the Impact of Different Light Protection Systems on Historic Monuments.” (07/24 - 12/26)
• “Arsenic- and Heavy-Metal-Contaminated Building Elements and Interior Fittings in Heritage Conservation: Documentation, Analysis, and Development of an AI-Based Data Management System” (10/24 - 09/27)
• “Research, Digital Inventory, and Digital Reconstruction of the Pre-Industrial Urban Construction History of Rouffach (Alsace, France)” (02/24 - 01/27)
• “Medieval Murals in Iran, 10th-14th Centuries. Art Historical Research on Disappearing Cultural Heritage” (10/23 - 09/26)
• “Digital Documentation of Jewish Cemeteries and Jewish Ways of Living in Bamberg/Franconia.” (since 2018)
• “Digitalisation in Building Research and Architectural Heritage Conservation” (since 2016)
• “Engineering Analysis of Architectural Structures and Building Preservation” (since 2016)
• “The Castle Landscape of the Altmühltal - Digital Documentation, Analysis and Visualisation of Medieval and Early Modern Noble Residences” (since 2016)
• “Subterranean Structures of the Bamberg Cathedral Hill: Studies on Reconstructing the High Medieval Building Fabric” (since 2016)
• “Infrared Thermography as a Non-Destructive Testing Method in Building Research” (since 2017)

• “UrbanMetaMapping. Mapping and Transforming: Interdisciplinary Approaches to City Maps as Visual Media of Urban Transformation Processes in Central and East Europe”  (BMBF research consortium) (since 2020)
• “Rubiacum: Reconstructing the Urban Architectural History of Rouffach (Alsace) through Archival Research, Archaeology, Builing Research, GIS, and Scanning Methods” (06/24 - 06/27)
• “WoodF(ea)uture: Development of an Automated Method for the Condition Analysis of Installed Historic Timber” (01/24 - 07/26)

• “GeoRek: Modern Online Teaching Formats for Geodetic Methods of Reconstruction in Ukraine” (10/25 - 06/29)
• SENSES EU Cost-Action: “Sensing Europe’s Court Spaces at the Crossroads of Past, Present and Future” (10/25 - 09/29)
• “MUSEDU+, Innovative Professional Skills for Advanced Museum Communication and Education (Erasmus KA220-VET)” (09/25 - 08/28)
• “Digitalized Witnesses from Stone. German-Jewish Sepulchral Culture from the Middle Ages to Modernity - Space, Form, Inscription” (01/23 - 12/46, cooperation with the Chair of Jewish Studies)
• “3D Recording and Visualisation of Baroque Ceiling Frescoes and Murals. Corpus of Baroque Ceiling Painting in Germany (CbDD)” (01/17 - 12/30)
• “Development of an Automated Condition Analysis of Installed Historic Timber” (01/24 - 07/26)

Chair of Restoration Science

• Research Project “Carved Memories - Memory written in Stone” (07/24 - 12/26)
• Research Project “Tracing Lindner: An Old Industrial Monument in the Context of Modern School Life” (school year 2025/26)

Chair of Preventive Conservation

• Research Project “Heritage Conservation and Climate Change. A Heritage Lab for Future Question of Cultural Heritage Preservation” (07/23 - 07/26)
• Cultural Heritage Research Alliance
• Participation in the EU project Climate for Culture

• Practice-oriented Projects
  • “Kranichberg Castle in Lower Austria” (2022 - 2026)
  • “Digital Reconstruction Model of the City of Bamberg around 1300" (since 2009)
  • “Noble Residences in Franconia between 1450 and 1600 - Residential and Representational Culture of the Early Modern Nobility” (since 2009)
  • “The Bamberg Cathedral” (since 2007)
• Collaboration with monument conservation authorities and the monument protection authorities of the Federal States, especially:
  • Brandenburg State Office for Monument Preservation and the Archaeological State Museum
  • State Monument Office Berlin
  • Working Group “Building Research” and “Building Techniques” of the Association of State Monument Conservators
  • Architects' Chambers and Building Trade Associations of the States
  • Fraunhofer Institute Information Center for Space and Construction
• Contact with independent associations dedicated to building historical research:
  • Working Group for House Research
  • Association of Cathedral Master Builders
  • German Castles Association
  • Wartburg Society for the Research of Castles and Palaces
• Participation in the Koldewey Society
• Cooperation agreements with the Foundation of Thuringian Palaces and Gardens and the Msc Building Conservation at the University of Portsmouth

• Projects:
  • “Technical Art-Historical Study of Murals in a 16th-century Secular Building in Zug (Switzerland)” (until 12/25)
  • “Egyptian Blue - Murals in the UNESCO World Heritage Monastery of St. John at Müstair (Switzerland”
  • “Medieval Murals in Iran, 10th-14th Centuries. Art Historic Stury of Disappearing Cultural Artifacts”
• Cooperations:
  • Bavarian State Office for Heritage Conservation (Munich & Seehof) and its central laboratory and restoration workshops
  • Restoration Center of the Bavarian Administration of State-Owned Palaces, Gardens, and Lakes (Munich)
  • Property & disaster management of the City of Bamberg
  • Lyzeum Foundation Bamberg
  • Conference of Swiss Heritage Conservators (KSD) & the Association of Cantonal Fire Insurance Companies (VKF) for fire protection measures for historic buildings (Switzerland)

• “Medieval Madonna Sculptures in Performative Contexts: Madonnas of Gold, Silver, Lead, and Other Metals” (Heisenberg Programme, since 2021)
  • “Seriality in the Middle Ages: The Thuir Madonna and Her Sisters. Object Scans” (subproject, see above; 2024-2026)
• “Medieval Artifacts in Their Temporal Constellations” (since 2021)
• “The Invention of Cathedrals. Medieval Sacred Architecture in France as an Object of Projection of Modernity” (11/22 - 02/26)

• Cooperation with Prof. Dr. G. Ulrich Großmann with the Germanisches Nationalmuseum in Nuremberg
• Cooperation with the Diocesan Museum, the Bavarian State Office for Heritage Conservation, and the Cathedral Works Office in Bamberg
• Cooperation with museums and research institutions such as the Centre des Monuments Nationaux, the Musée national du Moyen Âge in Paris (Musée de Cluny), and the Bibliotheca Hertziana in Rome (Max Planck Institute for Art History)

• Support from the director of the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Prof. Dr. Gregor J. M. Weber
• Cooperation with the Museums of the City of Bamberg, the Bavarian State Office for Heritage Conservation, and other regional museums and cutural institutions