Melanie Röthlisberger

Dr. Melanie Röthlisberger is an academic librarian at the University Library Zurich, specializing in Open Science Services (OSS). She holds a PhD in Linguistics from KU Leuven and previously served as Senior Research and Teaching Associate at the University of Zurich's English Department. Her work focuses on Open Access, Open Data practices, and promoting Open Science through educational initiatives such as the UZH Open Science game. She has led an SNSF-funded research project and organizes events like the OSIP 2019 workshop and UZH Summer School sessions on Open Science identifiers and publishing in the humanities. Her research spans syntactic variation, dialectology, and World Englishes, with notable contributions to studies on the dative alternation and ethnolectal features in Swiss German-speaking children.

Dr. Röthlisberger collaborates on interdisciplinary projects, including the actionuni Open Science workshop and Biointerfaces International Conference presentations. Her teaching emphasizes reproducibility, transparency, and ethical research practices. She actively participates in the Digital Society Initiative's Education and Ethics communities, reflecting her commitment to advancing scholarly communication and linguistic diversity.