Christoph Bläsi Christoph Bläsi (born 1960): professor for book studies at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany (since 2009) and permanent visiting professor at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland (since 2011); 2004-2009: professor for the study of the book at University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany; 1992-2004: senior positions in digital publishing and strategic information management of various major German publishing houses; 1989-1992: assistant professor / researcher (computational linguistics) at the universities of Heidelberg and Bielefeld, Germany; 1982-1989: student (mathematics, German studies, linguistics, computational linguistics) at the universities of Freiburg, Germany and Sussex (Brighton, U.K.).