ANDREASSTRASSE 15 | 8050 ZÜRICH | 044 635 72 46 | PSTROEBEL@CL.UZH.CH | PUBLICATIONS (ORCID) 🔗 PHILLIP BENJAMIN STRÖBEL, DR. RESEARCH INTERESTS I’m a postdoctoral researcher interested in languages and the Digital Humanities. My PhD thesis focused on optical character recognition of printed and handwritten historical documents (18C to present-day newspapers and 16C letters). LANGUAGES Natural: (CH-)German, English, French, Italian (B1), Swedish (A2), Arabic (A2) Ancient: Latin, Greek, Programming: Python, R EDUCATION University of Zurich — PhD Student SEPTEMBER 20 17 - M AY 2023 ● 2017 - 2020. Research assistant to the impresso - Media Monitoring of the Past. Mining 200 Years of Historical Newspapers (www.impresso-project.ch ) ● 2020 - 2023. Research assistant to the project Bullinger Digital (www.bullinger-digital.ch) ● Defended my dissertation on May 26, 2023 with “magna cum laude”. University of Zurich — Master of Arts SEPTEMBER 2022 - ONGOING ● Ancient Studies (120 ECTS) - Focus on religion, language, and material culture AUGUST 20 14 - AUGUST 20 16 ● Multilingual Text Analysis (120 ECTS) University of Zurich — Bachelor of Arts AUGUST 2010 - A UGUST 20 14 ● English Literature and Linguistics (120 ECTS), Computational Linguistics (30 ECTS), General Linguistics (30 ECTS) EXPERIENCE University of Bern — Application Developer JULY 2023 - DECEMBER 2023 I am working on improving the eScriptorium instance of the Digital Humanities group at the Walter Benjamin Kolleg. ETH Library Lab — Fellowship JANUARY 2020 - AUGUST 2020 URPP Language and Space — Research Assistant AUGUST 20 15 - MAI 20 16 , UNIVERSITY OF ZÜRICH I helped build and extend the ArchiMob corpus. Department of Computational Linguistics — Research Assistant APRIL 2015 - AUGUST 2017, UNIVERSITY OF ZÜRICH I was responsible for the Text+Berg corpus pipeline. 1