Carmen Enss

Dr. Carmen Enss is a Research Associate at the University of Bamberg’s Chair of Heritage Conservation, where she has worked since 2017. She leads the BMBF-funded UrbanMetaMapping consortium and contributes to the COST Action European Middle Class Mass Housing. Her expertise lies in post-war urban reconstruction, particularly in Munich and Italy, with a focus on reconciling monument preservation with city development.

• Doctorate in Architectural History (2013, TU Munich)
• Presidential Science and Engineering Fellowship (2009–2012)
• DFG Research Grant (2015–2017)

Her research examines urban development and monument preservation, history of cartography, and international knowledge transfer in heritage conservation. Recent work includes analyzing 20th-century Italian urban planning and war damage mapping in Germany and Poland.

• 2023: Co-edited Atlas of War Damage Maps of Germany
• 2022: Urban mapping in Nuremberg and inheritance processes in post-war planning
• 2021: Co-edited Politics of Inheritance in Urban Spaces

She has presented at international conferences in Rome, Prague, and Greece, emphasizing urban heritage theories and post-war reconstruction. Her affiliations include ICOMOS Germany, the Koldewey Society, and the Working Group on Theory and Teaching of Monument Preservation.