Jan Oliver Rüdiger

Jan Oliver Rüdiger is a Researcher at the Leibniz Institute for the German Language (IDS) in Mannheim, Germany. Previously, he was a research assistant at the University of Siegen (2018–2020) and completed his doctoral studies at the University of Kassel in 2020. His primary focus is on software development for digital humanities, with expertise in corpus linguistics, computational methods, and natural language processing.

• PhD: University of Kassel (2020)
• Research Assistant: University of Siegen (2018–2020)

His research interests include developing tools like CorpusExplorer and NeoRATE, which facilitate large-scale text analysis and neologism detection. He actively contributes to projects such as OWIDplusLIVE and the DiscourseBarometer, analyzing discourse dynamics and linguistic patterns in media and political contexts.

Rüdiger has received the Lisa Lena Opas-Hänninen Young Scholar Prize (2016) and is a member of organizations like the European Association for Digital Humanities (EADH). His work bridges computational methods with empirical linguistic inquiry, emphasizing interdisciplinary collaboration and open-source software development.