Main research areas

  • Building research, history of construction and building technology
  • Semantic modeling of built heritage and analysis with data sciences
  • FAIR research data management and digital heritage management
  • Spanish-Islamic architectural history
  • Historic brick technology
  • Digital recording of Jewish cemeteries

Career

  • Since 2016

    Research Group Leader (Postdoctoral Researcher), Department of Building Research and Conservation, Department of Building Research and Conservation, Otto-Friedrich-University Bamberg

  • 2012-2016

    Research assistant (postdoctoral researcher) at the Department of Building and Urban History at the Technical University of Berlin with research and teaching duties

  • 2012

    Doctorate in building and architectural history and historical building research at the Technical University of Berlin

  • 2007-2012

    Research assistant (doctoral candidate) at the Department of Building and Urban History at the Technical University of Berlin with research and teaching duties

  • 2006-2007

    Diploma in building and architectural history and historical building research as a research project in collaboration with the Diputación Provincial de Toledo

  • 1998-2007

    Studied architecture at the Technical University of Berlin

Publications (selection)

  • Arera-Rütenik, T. / Nöbauer, A.: Bamberg vocabulary for historical architecture. Standard data for the recording of key findings, in: Competence Center for Heritage Sciences and Technologies 2018 - 2020, ed. Tobias Arera-Rütenik, Paul Bellendorf, Stefan Breitling, Rainer Drewello, Mona Hess, Gerhard Vinken. Bamberg: University Press of Bamberg 2022 (Reports of the KDWT 2), 146-149. Link to the publication

  • Arera-Rütenik, T. / Nöbauer, A. / Schalk, P.: Semantic modeling in building research. Subject-specific requirements for virtual 3D models, in: Competence Center for Heritage Sciences and Technologies 2018 - 2020, ed. Tobias Arera-Rütenik, Paul Bellendorf, Stefan Breitling, Rainer Drewello, Mona Hess, Gerhard Vinken. Bamberg: University Press of Bamberg 2022 (Reports of the KDWT 2), 140-145. Link to the publication

  • Arera-Rütenik, Tobias: Digital humanities in building research. Systematics and potential of coded building and finding descriptions as a knowledge acquisition and knowledge distribution tool, in: Building research in monument conservation. Quality standards and knowledge distribution, ed. Stefan Breitling, Jürgen Giese. Bamberg: University Press of Bamberg 2018 (Research of the Institute for Archaeology, Monumentology and Art History 5), 219-242. Link to the publication

  • Arera-Rütenik, Tobias: Digital technologies in building research and in the practical conservation of historic buildings – development, tasks, perspectives, in: The digital and monument preservation. Inventory recording - Monument mediation - Data archiving - Reconstruction of lost objects, ed. Birgit Franz, Gerhard Vinken. Holzminden: Mitzkat 2017 (Publication of the Arbeitskreis Theorie und Lehre der Denkmalpflege e.V. 26), 60-67. Link to the publication

  • Arera-Rütenik, T. / Kollatz, T.: Interdisciplinary perspectives on gravestones and visualization of spatial structures. Results of a project on historical Jewish cemeteries, in: Object and font. Contributions to the material culture of the Jewish, ed. Katrin Keßler, Alexander von Kienlin, Ulrich Knufinke, Sarah M. Ross. Brunswick: Jewish Cultural Heritage Network 2016 (Jewish Cultural Heritage Series 1), 25-29.

  • Arera-Rütenik, Tobias: Building researcher – epigraphist – computer scientist. Comprehensive survey of the Berlin-Weißensee Jewish cemetery in preparation for a UNESCO World Heritage application and its follow-up projects, in: Report on the 48th Conference for Excavation Science and Building Research from May 28 to June 1, 2014 in Erfurt, ed. Koldewey Society. Dresden: Thelem 2015, 106-115.

  • Arera-Rütenik, Tobias: Mies van der Rohe’s departure into modernity. The tomb of Laura Perls from 1919, Architectura. Journal for the History of Architecture 44/2 (2014): 107-116.

  • Arera-Rütenik, T. / Horn, T. / von Gaisberg, E. / Arnold, I.: 115,628 Berliners. The Weissensee Jewish Cemetery. Documentation of the comprehensive survey of the gravesites. Petersberg: Imhof 2013 (Contributions to the preservation of monuments in Berlin 40). Link to the publication

  • Arera-Rütenik, T. / Cramer, J. / von Gaisberg, E. / Kuznicki-Fischer, S. / Horn, T. / Tuma, A. / Arnold, I.: The Weissensee Jewish Cemetery. Inventory of an ensemble of architectural, cultural and artistic monuments, in: Jewish cemeteries and burial culture in Europe. International symposium, Berlin-Weißensee, April 3-6, 2011 , ed. ICOMOS Germany. Berlin: hendrik Bäßler 2011 (ICOMOS - Booklets of the German National Committee 53), 34-45. Link to the publication

Lectures (selection)

  • 22.10.2024

    „Language of the object - form of the inscription. Coherence of two information carriers“, Online workshop "Objects as Inscription Carriers: The Materiality of Inscribed Cultural Property in Digital Space", Community Cluster "Objects as Inscription Carriers" of the NFDI4Objects consortium.
  • 09.09.2024

    „Formal Features of the Gravestones and Possibilities of their Analysis“, International Conference "Jewish Cemeteries in Premodern Europe: Interdisciplinary Perspectives", University of Duisburg-Essen.
  • 21.03.2024

    „Stone Witnesses Digital: German-Jewish Sepulchral Culture between the Middle Ages and Modernity - Space, Form, Inscription“, with Lucia Raspe, MA Seminar "Jewish Heritage", Central European University (Prof. Dr. Carsten Wilke).
  • 17.07.2023

    „The Object as a Complementary Carrier of Information: A Semantic Structural Model for the Analysis of Jewish Cemeteries“, Section "Jewish Cemeteries in Early Modern Germany: Interdisciplinary Perspectives", 12th European Association for Jewish Studies Congress, Frankfurt am Main.