Robert Forkel
Department of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Deutscher Platz 6
04103 Leipzig
phone: +49 (0) 341 3550 261
e-mail:
robert_forkel@[>>> Please remove the text! <<<]eva.mpg.de
About me
I am a scientific programmer, focusing on software to aggregate, curate and publish large databases for linguistic and cultural research. I am also interested in how data is used in research, in particular regarding aspects like reproducibility, and contribute to software packages such as LingPy.
Curriculum Vitae
| since 2018 | Head of the research data management group at DLCE |
| 2014-2017 | Scientific Programmer in the CLLD project |
| 2007-2012 | Scientific Programmer at the Max Planck Digital Library |
| 1994-2000 | MA in Mathematics. University Regensburg. Thesis title: "Effektive Berechnung von Residuenabbildungen" |