Konstantin Niehaus

Konstantin Niehaus is a Senior Scientist at the Department of German Studies, University of Salzburg. He habilitated in German Linguistics (venia docendi) in November 2024 and has been a key contributor to research projects like the SFB 'German in Austria' and the Atlas of Salzburg's Everyday Language.

• Current affiliation: Department of German Studies, University of Salzburg
• Habilitation in German Linguistics (2024)
• Research areas: Sociolinguistics, Language policy, Dialectology, Syntax, Digital Humanities

His work focuses on regional language variation, standardization processes, and historical linguistics, particularly in German-speaking contexts. He has contributed to digital corpus projects like the German Innsbruck Corpus (GermInnC) and the Variant Grammar of Standard German.

Academic career highlights:

• Senior Scientist (since 2023)
• Full-time maternity leave replacement (2020–2022)
• PhD in German Linguistics (2015, University of Augsburg)