Lower Austria is home to hundreds of cultural properties classified as worthy of protection - ranging from paintings to entire building ensembles. Protecting these treasures is the responsibility of Anna Kaiser, both as a professor at the University for Continuing Education Krems and as an officer in the Austrian Armed Forces.
About the Person
Anna Kaiser holds a PhD in ancient history. Through her military training she specialised in the protection of cultural property. She received her doctorate sub auspiciis praesidentis from the University of Vienna in 2013 with a dissertation on the Roman military. Since 2015, she has been a research associate and course director for the protection of cultural property at the Danube University Krems and has contributed significantly to the establishment and international positioning of the Center for Cultural Property Protection, which she has headed since 2023. She leads a number of EU projects on cultural property protection, climate change, conservation and sustainable use of cultural heritage. She teaches and lectures nationally and internationally on selected aspects of the broad topic of cultural heritage protection, with particular emphasis on sustainable implementation and the creation of interfaces between civilian stakeholders and various armed forces, especially the military.
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