CIPA Summer School 2025

Ulrike Herbig has been a member of ICOMOS Austria since 1996. She studied geodesy and completed her doctorate at the Institute of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing at the Vienna University of Technology under Professor Peter Waldhäusl, founding member and honorary president of CIPA and honorary member of ICOMOS International. Since 2003, she has been managing the Institute for Comparative Architecture Research (IVA-ICRA). Ulrike Herbig is currently the representative for research coordination and international relations at the Faculty of Architecture and Spatial Planning at TU Wien. She has been leading the monitoring group for the UNESCO World Heritage cultural landscape ‘Fertő/Neusiedlersee’ for ICOMOS Austria since 2012 and has been the spokeswoman for the monitoring group of ICOMOS Austria since 2018.

Reach out to Ulrike at herbig@icomos.at.

Andreas Georgopoulos is basically a Surveyor Engineer, who fell in love with Photogrammetry about 40 years ago. Hence he obtained his MSc and PhD (UCL) on this subject and afterwards he chose to teach it to younger students of Surveying as a Professor at NTUA, Lab of Photogrammetry. Cultural Heritage and Monuments are his second love and all these years he is trying to make the one work for the other with some success. He teaches Photogrammetry and Monument Recording to undergraduate and postgraduate students of Surveying and Architecture. His research activities include all kinds of contemporary optical methods for geometrically documenting monuments of all sizes. Among others, he has worked for the geometric documentation of Knossos (in Crete), of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre (in Jerusalem), of the Dafni Monastery (in Athens), of monasteries on Mount Athos, Byzantine Churches in Cyprus and many more monuments all over Greece.

Mona Hess has graduate degrees in architecture from Munich University of Technology, heritage conservation from University of Bamberg, both Germany, and a PhD in 3D imaging metrology for cultural heritage from University College London (UK) in 2015. She has a 19-year-experience in interdisciplinary research projects for 3D imaging metrology and digital documentation for cultural heritage buildings and museum artefacts. Since 2017 she is full professor and course director for the new M.Sc. in Digital Technologies in Heritage Conservation at the University of Bamberg, Germany, and was vice-womens’ officer of the university 2019 to 2022. She is also co-chair at the Centre for Innovative Applications of Computer Science and vice-chair at the Centre for Heritage Conservation Studies and Technologies (KDWT) at the University of Bamberg. She has published papers and book chapters in the cultural heritage and geomatics community (CIPA and ISPRS) She has been an expert member at CIPA since 2019. She is on the executive committee of CIPA from 2024 as Commission Chair for Education and Dissemination together with Prof. Dr. Andreas Georgopoulos.

Dörte Kuhlmann works at the Building History and Building Research Department at TU Wien. She studied architecture in Hanover and Vienna and completed her doctorate at the Bauhaus University Weimar in 1998. In 2002 she habilitated with the Venia for Architectural Theory in the research area of Building History and Building Research. Her teaching and research activities include design studios focussing on building in existing contexts and the examination of the historical building heritage and vernacular architecture in Austria. In addition to numerous teaching and research stays in the USA, Kosovo and Germany, she was a member of the Salzburg Design Advisory Board from 2009 to 2012. Her publications include The Art of (Re)Creation (2016), Basics Methoden der Formfindung (Springer 2016 co-author) Space, Time & Difference (Routledge 2013), Wooden Boxes (Luftschacht 2011), Wood with a Difference (edition selene 2009). In 2023 she worked for ICOMOS Austria as deputy treasurer.

José Luis Lerma is a Full Professor at the Department of Cartographic Engineering, Geodesy and Photogrammetry, Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV), Spain. He is an Engineer and Doctor in Geodesy and Cartography. Prof. Lerma is a specialist in imaging and 3D scanning. He has extensively published scientific papers and learning manuscripts in subjects related to 2D/3D imaging, range-based devices and multispectral sensors in cultural heritage, engineering, metrology and medicine. Nowadays, he is the Editor-in-Chief of the Virtual Archaeology Review, a member of the Executive Committee (Commission Chair – Technologies for Cultural Heritage Geometric Documentation) of CIPA Heritage Documentation, Head of the Photogrammetry & Laser Scanning Research Group (GIFLE), and Coordinator of the PhD Programme in Geomatics Engineering (UPM-UPV).

Sander Münster is junior professor for Digital Humanities (images/objects) at the Friedrich Schiller Universität Jena (DE). He received his PhD in educational technology from the Technische Universität Dresden (DE), where he studied history, education and business. Until 2019 he headed the Department for Media Design at the Media Center at the TU Dresden and the junior research group UrbanHistory4D and has been a Young Investigator at the Faculty of Education at the TU Dresden.

His research fields are mobile 3D interfaces, scientometrics and research methodologies in Digital Humanities and heritage. He has worked extensively in the areas of research dissemination and innovation support. The related positions he has held include: co-convenor of the workgroup for Digital Reconstruction of the German Association for Digital Heritage, spokesman of the German network on “3D reconstruction methods for architectural history” and head of the workgroup “Partnering with international organisations” in the Virtual Multimodal Museum EU network.

Since the beginning of 2024 he is an elected member of the CIPA Heritage Documentation executive board, co-chairing the Permanent Commission “Application of Recording, Documentation, and Information Management for Cultural Heritage”.

Fulvio Rinaudo is full professor of Geomatics at the Architecture and Design Dept. of the Politecnico di Torino. With a Ph.D. in Geodetic and Cartographic Sciences, he is author of more than 260 papers both in national and international reviews and centres his research activity in the domain of digital photogrammetry and the applications of Geomatics for the documentation of Cultural Heritage assets. He is Chair of the ISPRS’s WGII/8 “Data Acquisition and processing in Cultural Heritage”, member of the CIPA-HD Executive Bureau, co-editor of the reviews Applied Geomatics (Springer) and Virtual Archaeology review (UPV), scientific responsible of the Laboratory of Geomatics for Cultural Heritage (Politecnico di Torino). He teaches GIS and Modelling for Cultural Heritage at Politecnico di Torino, and at the Università degli Studi di ROMA “La Sapienza” the national PHD course in Earth observation.

Dimitrios Skarlatos is Professor in the department of Civil Engineering and Geomatics in Cyprus University of Technology. Part of his research is focusing on UAV archaeological site mapping and 3D recording of CH objects, such as monuments and museum exhibits. He is the lead surveyor in Mazotos shipwreck, underwater excavation, since 2010 and has been involved in two more shipwreck’s 3D reconstruction. Prof. Skarlatos has successfully coordinated iMARECULTURE, a Research and Innovation project (RIA), under a call for virtual museums. The project focused in promoting maritime cultural heritage, through several XR applications and serious games. He is the EuroSDR academic delegate of Cyprus (since 2010), co-chair in ISPRS WG II/7 for Underwater Data Acquisition and Processing (2016-2026), and CIPA Commission Chair for Technologies for Cultural Heritage Geometric Documentation (2024-2027).