Prof. Dr. Mona Hess

Project management

Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg
Competence Center for Monument Sciences and Technologies
Chair of Digital Monument Technology

mona.hess@uni-bamberg.de

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Main research areas

  • Digital monument technologies
  • Geospatial 3D documentation and imaging methods
  • 3D digitization of cultural assets and monuments with subsequent digital indexing
  • Integration of multi-modal sensor data for H-BIM - Digital Twin - Smart City Bamberg
  • Automation in (3D) data processing

Career

  • Since 2017

    Professor for Digital Monument Technologies, Competence Center for Monument Sciences and Technologies, Otto-Friedrich-University Bamberg

  • 2016-2017

    Research Fellow, Preserving Maya Heritage, Department for Africa, Oceania and Americas / British Museum, Coordinator via Adecco UK on assignment to Google (The Google Cultural Institute), London, UK

  • 2014-2017

    Research Associate / Research Manager of the 3DIMPact research group, module coordinator and teaching in module of the BASc (Bachelor of Arts and Sciences), University College London, Civil Environmental and Geomatic Engineering

  • 2015-2016

    Manager for UCL Robotics, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council - Impact Acceleration Award, UCL Robotics and Autonomous Systems, University College London

  • 2015

    Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors Fellow, Secondment at the UCL Research Impact Curation Team, Task: Impact Case study draft a project at the Bartlett School of Built Environment towards REF2020 (UK Research Exercise Framework), UK

  • 2015

    PhD, University College London Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering, Faculty of Engineering Sciences

  • 2008-2013

    Research Assistant / Research Associate, The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, University College London Public and Cultural Engagement

  • 2006-2007

    Graduate Research Internship, Getty Conservation Institute, Fields Projects department, The J. Paul Getty Trust, Los Angeles,

  • 2005-2006

    Freelance employee, Digital Cathedral Building Archive, Bamberg Cathedral Building Lodge, Bamberg State Building Authority

  • 2004-2006

    Research assistant, Chair of Restoration Science in the Conservation of Historic Buildings and Chair of Cultural Informatics, Otto-Friedrich-University Bamberg

  • 2005

    Master of Arts in Heritage Conservation, Otto-Friedrich-University Bamberg / University of Applied Sciences Coburg

  • 1999-2003

    Architect in internship Munich (Braunfels Architekten); Lugano / Switzerland (Luca Gazzaniga & Carlo Ceccolini Architetti) and Montreal / Canada (L'étude de Louis Brillant); focus on preservation of historic buildings and conservation

  • 2002

    Graduate engineer Univ. Architecture, Technical University of Munich

Publications (selection)

  • Hess, M. / Hindmarch J. / Groh, M. / Burioni, M.: A semi-automated methodology for 3D imaging of large vaulted ceiling paintings, The International Archives of the Photogrammetry , Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences XLVIII-M-2-2023 (2023): 721-727. Link to the publication

  • Hess, M. / Liu, F. / Hindmarch, J.: A review of the cultural heritage linked open data ontologies and models, The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences XLVIII-M-2-2023 (2023): 943-950. Link to the publication

  • Hess, M. / Ferreyra, C.: Recording and comparing historic garden architecture: value of SLAM-based recording for research on cultural landscpaes in connection with heritage conservation, The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences XLVI-M-1-2021 (2021): 301-308. Link to the publication

  • Hess, M. / Luhmann, T.: 3D capture in heritage conservation: requirements and perspectives, in: Meydenbauer, Busch: Pioneers of Photogrammetry: Accompanying volume to the special exhibition at the Rathenow Cultural Center, ed. Bettina Götze. Rathenow: Rathenow Cultural Center 2021, 58-65.

  • Hess, M. / Pavlovski, M. / Chizhova, M. / Hindmarch, J.: Application of multi-criteria decision making for the selection of sensing tools for historical gravestones, The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences XLIII-B2-2020 (2020): 1435-1442. Link to the publication

  • Hess, M. / Colson, A. / Hindmarch, J.: Capacity Building and Knowledge Exchange of Digital Technologies in Cultural Heritage Institutions, Museums in a Digital World, 70,1-2 Special Issue: Museums in a Digital World (2018): 48-61. Link to the publication

  • Hess, M. / Robson, S. / Serpico, M. / Amati, G. / Pridden, I. / Nelson, T.: Developing 3D imaging programs – Workflow and quality control, Journal of Computing and Cultural Heritage 9 (2015). Link to the publication

Lectures (selection)

  • 09.09.2024

    „Digitization Methods for Jewish Graveyards“, International Conference "Jewish Ceme-teries in Premodern Europe: Interdisciplinary Perspectives", University of Duisburg-Essen.

  • 17.07.2023

    „Digitization methods for Jewish graveyards - 3D imaging, topographic survey and (3D) surface imagery for an efficient analysis of graveyard ensembles“, Section "Jewish Cemeteries in Early Modern Germany: Interdisciplinary Perspectives", 12th European Association for Jewish Studies Congress, Frankfurt am Main.