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 and audiovisual productions, she joined the Phonogrammarchiv of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna in 1998, where she managed the audio department as a senior researcher from 2005-2020. She is currently professor for Conservation and Restoration of New Media and digital Information at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart, Germany.
Nadja is a specialist in audio restoration, re-recording and digital archiving, and works as a consultant for archival technology for project partners all over the world.
Nadja Wallaszkovits is AES Past President, Chair of AES Awards Committee and Co-Chair of AES Technical Committee for Archiving, Restoration and Digital Libraries, as well as chair of the recently renewed AES SC-03 Subcommittee on Preservation and Restoration of Audio Recordings.