Executive Committee

Ian Gregory is a professor at Lancaster University. His research interest are the use of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) with texts and traditional quantitative sources. He applies these approaches to study diverse topics, ranging from historical demography to Lake District literature.

Carmen Enss works in monument conservation and leads the research network UrbanMetaMapping. Her areas of interest are cultural heritage, urban history, and the documentation of war damage in Europe. She conducts research at the Competence Center for Monument Sciences and Technologies at Otto Friedrich University Bamberg, where she also leads the sub-project “Bestand” and the DFG project “Recording War Damage in World War Two Europe.”

Daniel Alves is Associate Professor (with Habilitation) in the History Department and researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History, both at NOVA FCSH, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal. His areas of interest are Contemporary History, Economic and Social History, Urban History, History of Revolutions and Digital Humanities.

Joana Paulino works as a Junior Researcher in the Institute of Contemporary History and holds a PhD in Contemporary History, both from NOVA FCSH. Her areas of interest are Contemporary History, Urban History, Child Welfare, Digital Humanities, Spatial Humanities and Network Analysis.

Klaus Stein works as a Senior Researcher at Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg, Germany. His areas of interest are spatial cognition, geo-informatics, and social network analysis. He holds a PhD obtained within the interdisciplinary DFG priority program “Spatial Cognition” and studied Informatics (Computer Science) at TU München.

She works as a research collaborator at GhentCDH, Belgium. Her areas of interest are digital humanities, project coordination, and research outreach. She holds an MA in History from Ghent University (2020) and an Advanced Master in Digital Humanities from KULeuven (2021). As a Liaison Officer, she coordinates communication and outreach for GhentCDH projects, particularly within the CLARIAH-Flanders Open Humanities Research Infrastructure Project (CLARIAH-VL).

Seraphim (Serafeim) Alvanides is a senior researcher with he project UrbanMetaMapping (UMM) at Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg, Germany. His areas of substantive interests include social geography, urban sprawl, land use change, active transport and spatial humanities. He has methodological expertise in quantitative methods, urban analytics and geographical information science. Dr. Alvanides is a co-Editor of E&P B: Urban Analytics and City Science and an advocate of Open Science principles.

Vincent Ducatteeuw works as a Research Collaborator at GhentCDH. His areas of interest are public history, education, and Digital Humanities. He holds an MA in History (Ghent University, 2020) and an MA in Education (Ghent University, 2020). Since joining GhentCDH in 2020, he has focused on digitization and data analysis, contributing to two large-scale public history projects.