Andrea Rapp has been Vice President of the Technical University of Darmstadt responsible for scientific infrastructure from 2017-2019. After her study in the field of German Language and Literature and Art History at the University of Trier, Andrea Rapp participated in a number of research projects as a research fellow (wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin). Following a period in the Göttingen State and University Library, where she led the digitisation centre, she was Managing Director (Geschäftsführerin) of the Trier Center for Digital Humanities and Assistant Professor (Akademische Rätin) in German Medieval Studies. Since 2010, she is Professor for German Studies – Computer Philology and Medieval Studies at the Institute for Language and Literary Studies at TU Darmstadt, and from 2017-2019 Vice President for Scientific Infrastructure. Her areas of teaching and research emphasis lie in the areas of medieval manuscripts, historic variations of written language, digital lexicography and editorial theory as well as practices of digital annotation, virtual research environments and digital infrastructures.