Berit Zimmerling

Berit Zimmerling is a PhD candidate and project staff at the Ludwig-Uhland-Institute for Historical and Cultural Anthropology, University of Tübingen. She is affiliated with the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences and the Department of Historical and Cultural Anthropology. Her current research focuses on interactions with AI-based virtual representations of Holocaust survivors, funded by the DFG project 'From the Era of the Witness to Digital Remembrance.'

Her academic background includes a master's degree in Cultural Anthropology from LUI, where she specialized in emotions and Holocaust commemoration, conducting fieldwork on political tours in the Israel-Palestine conflict. Her PhD project, 'Emotional Remembrance through Virtual Witnessing,' explores how digital technologies reshape memory practices and emotional engagement with historical trauma.

Zimmerling employs ethnographic methods and digital anthropology to analyze socio-technical assemblages involving AI and memory practices. Her work bridges memory studies, emotion research, and technology's role in historical representation. Consultation hours are Thursdays 2:30–4:00 PM via prior email arrangement.

No scientific awards are explicitly mentioned, though her work contributes to interdisciplinary research at the intersection of anthropology and digital humanities. She collaborates within the Ludwig-Uhland-Institute and participates in the DFG-funded project, emphasizing methodological innovation in studying post-witness era commemoration.