Karsten Kühnel
Karsten Kühnel studied history, linguistics and ancient philology at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg and archival science at the Archives School Marburg. He held different positions as archivist at church archives, municipality archives, and at the German Federal Archives. From 2008 to 2013 he led the division for archival description at the International Tracing Service (ITS) in Bad Arolsen. There he joined the EU funded EHRI project and became member of Work Package 17 (standards and guidelines) and Work Package 6 (interdisciplinary methodologies of Holocaust studies). Since March 2013 he is the head of the university archives Bayreuth.