Head of Digital Humanities Sarah Lang interviewed by Thomas Meyer on HSozKult. She shares her path from classical philology to Digital Humanities and her current research at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science.

She highlights the role of digital methods in alchemy studies, the development of Austria’s DH community with projects like GAMS, Clariah.at and Transkribus, and current challenges around AI, data ethics, and integrating digital approaches into historical scholarship.