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

• “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)
• “The Early Medieval Slavic Necropolis near Iffelsdorf” (since 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)

• 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)

• 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:
  • “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)