Sarah Lang is Head of Digital Humanities at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (Berlin). Previously, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Information Modelling at the University of Graz. Trained in History and Classics in Graz and Montpellier, she completed a PhD on early modern alchemical literature in 2021, combining Digital Humanities and the history of science, for which she received the Bader Prize of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. As convenor of the Empowerment Working Group of the German Digital Humanities Association (DHd), where she is also on the board of directors, Sarah Lang is interested in issues like (gender) data gaps, data feminism, diversity in DH, decolonizing data, data ethics and related topics.
