Nadja Wallaszkovits has been a member of the AES for many years. She is board member of the Austrian section and is active in the Technical Committee on Archiving Restoration and Digital Libraries, as well as in SC-07 Subcommittee on Metadata for Audio.
Nadja has worked as a student member already for the 92nd convention in Vienna, Austria - March 1992, and has served in various chair functions for many European AES conventions.
Starting from the audio production side as a sound engineer, her career became more and more specialised in audio archiving and restoration. Nadja Wallaszkovits studied ethnomusicology at the University of Vienna and graduated as an audio engineer. After several years of experience as a sound engineer for private national and international recording companies she joined the Phonogrammarchiv of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, where she managed the audio department from 2005-2020. Currently she is Professor for Conservation of New Media and Digital Information at the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart.
She is consultant for archival technology for archives worldwide, has given training courses and project support for numerous international institutions.
She has a wide experience in specific trainings for all relevant archival and transfer topics, including storage and conservation, restoration, digitisation of analogue audio media, as well as machine alignment, digital restoration and several more related fields.
She lectures at the University of Vienna and at the University of Applied Sciences in Berlin and Berne, and has held several national and international training seminars.
Nadja Wallaszkovits is vice chair of the Technical Committee of the International Association of Sound Archives (IASA) and member of the Training and Education Committee of IASA.
In 2018, Nadja Wallaszkovits was presented with the AES Board of Governors Award in recognition for co-chairing the 142nd AES Convention in Berlin, Germany, May 20–May 23, 2017.
In 2018, Nadja Wallaszkovits was presented with the AES Board of Governors Award in recognition of co-chairing the 144th AES Convention in Milan.
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