The jury of the Heinz Billing Prize has recognized Oliver Eberle (BIFOLD Berlin) for his outstanding contributions to the digital humanities project “The Sphere: Knowledge System Evolution and the Shared Scientific Identity of Europe,” led by Matteo Valleriani at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG). 

Oliver has made significant research contributions that shape how digital methods and machine learning advance historical and cultural research.

The 2025 Heinz Billing Prize award ceremony took place during the fall meeting of the Human Sciences Section of the Max Planck Society on October 23–24, 2025 in Berlin. Established in 1993, the award commemorates Prof. Heinz Billing (1914–2017), a pioneer of electronic data processing and one of the key figures behind the early development of scientific computing in Germany.