Melvin Wevers

President

Computational Historian working at the University of Amsterdam. Interested in temporality, scaling, multimodality, and the role of computational modeling in historical research.

Alie Lassche

Vice-President

NWO Rubicon postdoctoral fellow at the Antwerp Center for Digital Humanities and Literary Criticism (ACDC), University of Antwerp. Her research interests center around the use of computational and statistical methods to study how information spreads in an early-modern society.

Folgert Karsdorp

Venue Commissioner

Senior Researcher and head of the Oral Culture research group at the Meertens Institute, Amsterdam. He likes to use computational models from fields such as Machine Learning, Cultural Evolution, and Ecology to study cultural change and to quantify cultural diversity.

Barbara McGillivray

Diversity and Inclusion Officer

Lecturer in Digital Humanities and Cultural Computation at King’s College London, with a PhD in computational linguistics from the University of Pisa. Her research interests focus on computational models for language change and the analysis of historical texts.

Kristoffer Nielbo

Journal Liaison

Lucy Li

Proceedings Officer

Incoming assistant professor in the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Computer Sciences department. Her research focuses on natural language processing of social and cultural data.

Judith Brottrager

Early Career Representative

Postdoctoral researcher at the Technical University of Darmstadt working at the intersection of digital humanities and literary studies. Her research focuses on canonisation processes, quantitative literary history, and comparative computational approaches to literature.