Project Team

The project “unsere TU Wien. Places of memory - From Prater to Arsenal, Karlsplatz and Getreidemarkt” is a collaboration between the Heritage Conservation, Geoinformation and Computer Graphics research units, the TU Wien Archive and the Department of Data Protection and Document Management and has received funding from the fuTUrefit Call 2025.

Team Members

• Paulus Ebner (TU Wien Archive)

  Paulus Ebner studied History and German Studies at the University of Vienna; between completing his master’s degree and finishing his PhD, he worked as a freelancer on research projects. During this time, he co-authored the commemorative publication marking the 125th anniversary of BOKU (1997) with Manfried Welan, and the book *Die sanfte Revolution* (1998) with Karl Vocelka. Paulus Ebner has worked in the archives of TU Wien since 2001 and has been head of the archives since 2016. Further publications on university history include, amongst others, two volumes co-authored with Juliane Mikoletzky on the Vienna University of Technology between 1914 and 1955; further publications cover film, popular culture and urban history.

• Samuel Engel (Interactive Data Analysis & Visualization)

• Philipp Erler (Rendering and Modeling)

  Philipp Erler is a researcher at the Institute of Visual Computing & Human-Centered Technology at TU Wien, Austria. He finished his PhD in 2026. His main research interest is surface reconstruction. Other research topics include photogrammetry and deep learning on point clouds.

• Friedrich Hauer (Archival Research)

  Friedrich Hauer was trained as an architect/urbanist and historian in Vienna, Austria. Since 2010, he has been a member of various interdisciplinary working groups in urban design and urban environmental history, focusing on questions of structural spatial development and urban metabolism. His PhD in urban morphology (2019) addressed the impacts of Waters(s) on Vienna’s urban formation over the past 500 years. In addition, he has published on topics in architectural history, has organised symposia and curated exhibitions. In 2018, together with Andre Krammer he began researching the previously neglected topic of informal settlements in 20th century Vienna. In addition to his activities as a freelance scientist, he is currently a lecturer and post-doctoral researcher at the TU Wien’s Institute of Urban Design and Landscape Architecture and freelance scientist.

• Iskren Ivanov (Geoinformation)

• Markus Kattenbeck (Geoinformation)

  Markus Kattenbeck is the lead researcher of the Spatial Human-Computer Interaction lab which is part of the research unit Geoinformation since 5/2019. He is an Information Scientist by training (PhD in 2016). Markus, who is a former MSCA Global Fellow (2022-2024), does reasearch at the intersection of GIScience, human spatial cognition, and outdoor extended reality. Currently, he has two main research foci: On the one hand, he focuses on in-situ geovisualisations communicated through head-mounted extended reality. On the other hand, Markus studies how conscious and unconscious human behavior reflects state of human cognition. He has a strong focus on empirical research involving human participants.

• Birgit Knauer (Heritage Conservation, Project Lead)

  Birgit Knauer studied art history at the University of Vienna. After completing her PhD at TU Wien, she worked as a research assistant in the Department of Heritage Conservation at the University of Bamberg (KDWT). Since 2020, she has been researching and teaching at the Department for Heritage Conservation at TU Wien, focusing primarily on the documentation, analysis and evaluation of post-war architecture, as well as on urban Transformation, discourses and practices in urban planning and conservation in the 20th century.

• Emily Paefgen (Heritage Conservation)

• Aida Smajlovic (Geoinformation)

• Christina Thirsfeld (Data Protection and Document Management)

• Manuela Waldner (Interactive Data Analysis & Visualization)

  Manuela Waldner is an associate professor at the Institute of Visual Computing & Human-Centered Technology at TU Wien, Austria. She has a PhD in computer science from Graz University of Technology, Austria. Her main research interest is scalable and interactive data analysis and visualization. She has co-authored papers at journals and venues like IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics or ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems, of which some have been nominated or awarded best paper awards. In 2014, she received a Hertha Firnberg fellowship for highly qualified female scientists by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF). She is involved in projects on human-AI collaboration for data exploration, cultural heritage, and large-scale interactive geographic data visualization.

• Alexandra Wieser (TU Wien Archive)

  Alexandra Wieser studied history, journalism and communication studies at the University of Vienna and TU Berlin; she also completed a degree in Auxiliary Sciences of History and Archival Studies at the University of Vienna (Institute for Austrian Historical Research). She worked as an archivist at the Diocesan Archives of St. Pölten, the Vienna Technical Museum and the Municipal and Provincial Archives of Vienna; since 2016 she has been an archivist at the Archives of TU Wien. Main research interests: history of technology, social history of the 19th and 20th centuries, history of the Imperial and Royal Polytechnic Institute/ TH in Wien/ TU Wien.