Marcus works as a software engineer on various Digital Humanities projects at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. He received his PhD 2015 in German Literature from the University of Chicago writing on the content and influence of Johann Gottlieb Fichte’s 1794 <hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rend="italic">Science of Knowledge</hi>. Prior to joining the Academy, he worked for three years as a software engineer at PricewaterhouseCoopers Deutschland. He enjoys working as a fullstack developer, fiddling on both the frontend and backend, and solving devops challenges. Marcus is driven by the quest to use modern technology to facilitate the sharing of knowledge.