Coordinator Digitization at the Academy of Sciences and Humanities Göttingen (Germany).

Jörg Wettlaufer studied History, Art History, and Physical Anthropology at Ruhr University Bochum, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, both in Germany, and at Sorbonne University in Paris, France. He received his Ph.D. in 1998 for an interdisciplinary study on a problem in the history of late medieval law.
From 1996 to 2011, he was involved in a research project on Late Medieval Courts and Residences at the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities.
In 2012, he joined the Göttingen Centre for Digital Humanities (GCDH), where he worked on the project “Digital Library and Virtual Museum” within the Digital Humanities Research Collaboration Lower Saxony.
From 2016 to 2017, and again from 2019 onwards, he has coordinated Digitization at the Goettingen Academy and has been responsible for data curation. In addition, he worked as a Senior Research Associate at the GCDH from 2016 to 2019 and coordinated digitization activities at the Faculty of Humanities at Georg-August University Göttingen from 2018 to 2021.
He is responsible for several online projects dealing with topics such as late medieval travel accounts, Travels in the Ottoman Empire, Evolutionary History, Digital History, and the History of Emotions in Medieval Law.
He has also co-founded a social Network for Scientists. His research interests include, in particular, the application of semantic web technologies in the Digital Humanities and the development of adaptive research and publication environments, such as the PANDORA project (2016–2018).
He is currently a member of the council of the E-Research Alliance. He is also a member of the humanities data centre group of the DHd association and served on the committee of the “Digital History” working group of the “Verband der Historiker und Historikerinnen Deutschlands” from 2018 to 2025. From 2018 to 2021, he was also a member of the board of directors of the “Institut für Digital Humanities” at the Faculty of Humanities, Georg-August University Göttingen.
Since 2022, he has headed the Göttingen Digital Academy.