Phaidracon

Thomas Wallnig

About

Thomas Wallnig is a historian and serves as an adjunct professor and Senior Scientist at the University of Vienna. He studied History and Italian in Graz, Pisa, Turin, and Vienna. In 2007, he was awarded the prestigious START Prize by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), and in 2015, he received his habilitation in Modern History. From 2014 to 2018, he co-led the COST-Action "Reassembling the Republic of Letters," and since 2016, he has chaired the Austrian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Wallnig has held fellowships and guest positions in Wolfenbüttel, Paris, Princeton, Stanford, Padua, and Klagenfurt. His research focuses on the history of knowledge and ideas in the premodern period from a transregional perspective, the relationship between science and religious communities, historiography, and Digital Humanities. From 2024 to 2026, he will serve as Vice Dean for (Digital) Infrastructure at the Faculty of Historical and Cultural Studies.