Barbara Pavlek Löbl

Barbara Pavlek Löbl

Barbara Pavlek Löbl is a Research Fellow and postdoctoral researcher at the Chair of Public History within the Faculty of Historical and Cultural Studies at the University of Vienna. Her work focuses on interdisciplinary approaches combining digital historical data with computational models to study cultural history. She holds a PhD from Friedrich Schiller University Jena and the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, where her dissertation explored coinage as an informational system through archaeology, cognitive science, and economic history.

Her current research investigates interactions between people, monuments, landscapes, and narratives in cultural memory formation. She previously served as Deputy Chief Content Officer (Deputy CCO) at Public History Weekly (2022–23). Pavlek Löbl teaches courses on public archaeology and memory landscapes, actively contributing to academic discourse through her research projects and publications.

Key areas of expertise include digital humanities, cultural evolution, and the application of computational methods to historical data analysis. Her work bridges archaeology, economics, and cognitive science to understand how cultural systems evolve over time.