Frithjof Vollmer, PhD, studied Double Bass Performance, Historical Musicology, and Philosophy in Weimar (Germany), Eugene (USA), and Stuttgart (Germany). Working as a Research Assistant 2019–2025 at the Stuttgart University of Music and Performing Arts, he completed a PhD thesis on musical gestures in string instrument performance in the first half of the 20th century. Lectureships at the University Halle-Wittenberg (2023), University Tübingen (2024), and Nuremberg University of Music (since 2025), Germany; Postdoctoral Researcher in the GRF project “Conceptualising a Digital Performance Edition” (since October 2025). Recent publications include performance histories of the 19th and 20th century as well as the co-edition of a volume concerned with the current state of digital analysis in performance research (Softwaregestützte Interpretationsforschung. Grunds?tze, Desiderate und Grenzen, Würzburg: K?nigshausen & Neumann 2023).