Jeanna Nikolov-Ramirez (born 1976 in Sofia) holds an M.A. in Graphic Design and Advertising from the University of Applied Arts, Vienna and
Elisava School of Designand Engineering, Barcelona. After working in design and advertising she was director of postgraduate courses at Danube University Krems,
Center for Image Science for six years creating and heading Master programs in Image & Science, Iconography, Digital Collections Management and Media Art Histories. She worked as project manager for several large scale international research projects on the intersection of culture and technology including
EuropeanaConnect, an EU-funded research project building the European digital library
Europeana, aggregating digital cultural heritage across museums, libraries, archives and audiovisual institutions, and the
Google Books Cooperation of the
Austrian National Library (
Austrian Books Online). Other research projects she significantly contributed to include
DM2E,
IMPACT,
PLANETS.
She has written several successful funding proposals for EU research projects, the most recent one being
Europeana Creative, a project establishing an Open Labs structure across Europe and promoting the re-use of cultural heritage resources by Europe's creative industries. She was a communication consultant to
UN Women and a key collaborator on
BK SciArt, an NGO working towards a Museum of Science and Arts in North Brooklyn, New York and communicating science via the arts. Moreover she designed the logo for the
Vienna Planetarium and observatories, which has been and continues to be in use for over 10 years now.
She has been project associate at the
Laboratory for Cognitive Research in Art History, Univ. of Vienna where she co-developed an
eye-tracking study investigating human gaze and pose and has built
an autonomous cognitive robot. Currently she is project and process manager at the
University of Applied Sciences BFI, founder of the NGO
ArtCognito promoting the interrelatedness of Art and Science and studying to complete her MSc in Cognitive Science in a joint degree program between the University of Vienna, the Medical University Vienna and Comenius University in Bratislava. She is a mother to a 6y old daughter.
Auszeichnungen: Input:Output Award 2003, Silberne CCA-Venus 2002, Auswahl ins Kommunikationshub der Universität Wien 2015
Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien
Univ.-Prof. Matthias Spaetgens