I build large-scale historical datasets from archival image scans using multimodal large language models to study how individuals, firms, and cities interacted with the German patent system and responded to technological change during the Second Industrial Revolution.

Alongside this work, I develop AI Co-Historians in AI for History (AI4History) to support historical research workflows and help historians analyse millions of previously unread primary sources. My goal is to accelerate historical research while giving historians more agency and leverage in understanding our past.