Vanessa studied German literature at the University of Vienna and worked on various digital archives projects about Austrian writers before joining the Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities at the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ACDH-OeAW) in 2015. There, she is involved in a number of research projects focusing on digital editing and data modelling. She is an expert on legal aspects of digital humanities research and open science. In addition to co-chairing the DARIAH working group ELDAH, she is co-chair of Open Science Network Austria’s working group on Legal Aspects of Open Science and a member of the CLARIN Legal and Ethical Issues Committee.