Iason Jongepier
Iason Jongepier is an associate professor of history in the Department of History, University of Antwerp, Belgium (50%) and a scientific staff member (work leader) at the State Archives of Belgium (50%). His main scientific interests are historical GIS, historical cartography, spatial humanities, and landscape history.
Katie McDonough
Katie McDonough is a Lecturer in Digital Humanities at Lancaster University. Her main historical research interests are the histories of ideas, information and infrastructure. She develops novel methods for creating and analyzing data from digitized collections, building bridges between text, visual, and spatial DH.
Carmen Brando Lebas
Carmen Lebas is a senior research engineer in digital humanities with a PhD in computer science. Her research interests include Automatic Language Processing (NLP) for the Humanities; geo-historical data and the Web of Data (Linked Data); GIS, mapping, and spatial analysis; and standards and interoperability of research data.
Christophe Verbruggen
Christophe Verbruggen is a director of the Ghent Centre for Digital Humanities and an associate professor in the research unit Social History at Ghent University, Belgium. His main interests lie in environmental history, the social history of intellectuals, the history of ideas in the 19th and 20th centuries, and the use of social network analysis in historical research.
Jitka Močičková
Jitka Močičková is a research associate and curator of the Map Collection at the Institute of History, Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic. Her research focuses on historical atlases, ethnolinguistic mapping, border studies, and the ideological instrumentalization of cartographic representations, combining historical geography with approaches of the digital and spatial humanities.
Don Lafreniere
Don Lafreniere is a professor of geography and GIS, and director of the Geospatial Research Facility at Michigan Technological University, USA. His main interests are urban environments and population health, public participatory GIS, historical GIS, deep mapping, deindustrialization and shrinking cities. He is the director of the international Community Deep Mapping Institute.
Ana Plosnic
Ana Plosnić Škarić is a senior researcher at the Institute of Art History in Zagreb, Croatia, and was the 2024 Richard Krautheimer Visiting Professor at the Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History in Rome. She studies preserved and lost medieval urban fabrics, including systematic research into the documents of medieval Dalmatian communes (written predominantly in Latin), and develops methodologies for visualizing changes over time.
Zef Segal
Zef Segal is an associate professor at the School of Media Studies at the College of Management Academic Studies in Israel and is currently a visiting assistant professor in digital and computational studies and history at Bates College, USA. His research focuses on journalism history, transportation infrastructures, and historical cartography, as well as the interrelations between these fields. His work combines “traditional” methodologies with computational and quantitative ones, ranging from OCR improvement and topic modeling to GIS mapmaking and network analysis.
Ma Zhaoyi
Ma Zhaoyi is a PhD candidate at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Her work integrates Digital Heritage and Spatial Humanities approaches to study how cosmology and cultural imagination mediate spatial knowledge—from the digital mapping of urban memory in medieval China to the cross-cultural reconfigurations of geometry and cosmology in late imperial China.
Andrea Ballatore
Andrea Ballatore is a senior lecturer in cultural data science at the Department of Digital Humanities at King’s College London, UK. He directs the Cultural Geo-Analytics Lab, which leverages geographic data science and GIS to study cultural institutions, industries, and audiences, revealing how and where culture is produced, accessed, and experienced.
Jyothi Justin
Jyothi Justin is a PhD at the Digital Humanities and Publishing Studies Research Group at the Indian Institute of Technology Indore, India. Her research interests are at the intersection of literature, digital humanities, spatial humanities (spatial archiving), Dalit studies, and digital pedagogy.
Johannes Sibeko
Johannes Sibeko is a researcher in linguistics and applied linguistics at Nelson Mandela University, South Africa, specializing in digital humanities applications for indigenous African languages. His research focuses on developing computational resources, readability measures, and assessment tools for low-resource African languages, addressing both educational and technological needs.
Leif Isaksen
Leif Isaksen is Professor of Ancient History and Digital Humanities in the Department of Classics, Ancient History, Religion, and Theology. His main interests are in spatial and temporal representation in the humanities - both in the ancient world and the modern one—and the use of Intelligent Systems to relate and interrogate online resources about the past.
Mustafa Erdem Kabadayı
M. Erdem Kabadayı is an economic historian based at Koç University, Istanbul. Kabadayı was the principal investigator of the first ERC Starting Grant (UrbanOccupationsOETR) on the economic history of the Ottoman Empire and Turkey (2016-2022). He recently completed an ERC Proof of Concept Grant (GeoAI_LULC_Seg) in the joint fields of data science, population geography, remote sensing, and history (2022-2024). Kabadayı has published individually and collaboratively in disciplines such as history, digital humanities, data sciences, geographical and earth sciences, and ecology.