Dr. Christopher Pollin is the founder of Digital Humanities Craft OG and an independent researcher specializing in Digital Humanities and applied Generative AI. He worked for eight years at the Institute for Digital Humanities at the University of Graz, where he completed degrees in History and Digital Heritage Studies (EuroMACHS) and received his PhD with a thesis entitled “Modelling, Operationalising and Exploring Historical Information: Using the Example of Historical Financial Information.”
His research interests include semantic technologies, information visualisation, linked open data, web development, and the application of large language models in research contexts. Building on this expertise, he is developing the Promptotyping methodology, a systematic approach to creating research tools with LLMs.
In 2022, he co-founded Digital Humanities Craft OG together with Christian Steiner. Today, he works as an independent researcher and developer at the intersection of Digital Humanities, Generative AI, and Prompt Engineering. Alongside his research and development activities, he teaches Digital Humanities, Generative AI, and Prompt Engineering at several Austrian universities and remains strongly committed to teaching and knowledge transfer.
