Alexander Wilfing
is Principal Investigator at the Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage (Austrian Academy of Sciences)
Alexander Wilfing studied musicology and philosophy in Vienna. His research interests include aesthetics, criticism, cultural history, and the history of musicology and its exchange with art history. From 2021 to 2023, he held an Erwin Schrödinger Fellowship at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Masaryk University Brno, and the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW), and conducted research at the Vossius Center in Amsterdam (2023) and Stanford University (2023). He is currently leading three research projects on Hanslick at the ÖAW, exploring his criticism and the aesthetic treatise "On the Musically Beautiful" (2022–27). Wilfing was editor of "Musicologica Austriaca" (2018–2024) and serves as a board member of the Institute of Austrian and German Music Research in Surrey (since 2020) and the "International Review for the Aesthetics and Sociology of Music" (since 2022).