People

UCLDH is composed of a management team, an multidisciplinary team of staff and PhD students from across the College, an Industry Advisory Panel, as well as visiting and affiliated contributors. We are affiliated to the UCL Institute of Advanced Studies.

UCLDH Management Team    

• Steven Gray: UCLDH Director; Associate Professor (Teaching) in Spatial Computation, The Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (UCL-CASA)
• Adam Crymble: UCLDH Deputy Director; Lecturer in Digital Humanities, UCL Department of Information Studies
• Rebecca Noone: UCLDH Associate Director (ECR); SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow, UCL Department of Information Studies
• Ulrich Tiedau: Associate Director of the UCL Centre for Digital Humanities; Professor in Modern Low Countries History and Society, UCL Department of Dutch

UCLDH Team

• Ramon Amaro: Lecturer in Art and Visual Culture of the Global South, Department of History of Art
• Antonis Bikakis: Associate Professor, UCL Department of Information Studies
• Rachele De Felice: Teaching Fellow, Department of English Language and Literature
• Oliver Duke-Williams: Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Digital Information Studies, UCL Department of Information Studies
• Ava Fatah gen. Schieck: Reader (Associate Professor) in Media Architecture and Urban Digital Interaction, Bartlett School of Architecture
• Lilah Fowler: Senior Teaching Fellow, Slade School of Fine Art
• Adam Gibson: Professor, UCL Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering
• François Guesnet: Reader in Modern Jewish History, Dept of Hebrew and Jewish Studies
• Nicolas Gold: Senior Lecturer, UCL Department of Computer Science
• Tessa Hauswedell: Research Associate, UCL Department of Dutch
• Andy Hudson-Smith: Professor of Digital Urban Systems, Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (UCL-CASA)
• Lauren Lauret: Dutch Research Council’s (NWO) Rubicon Postdoctoral Fellow, UCL History
• Leah Lovett: Reseach Fellow, Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (UCL-CASA)
• Daniele Metilli: Research Fellow in Advanced Data Architectures for DH, UCL Information Studies
• Julianne Nyhan: Professor of Digital Humanities, UCL Information Studies
• Nina Pearlman: Head of UCL Art Collections, UCL Culture
• Kathryn E. Piquette: Senior Research Consultant and Imaging Specialist, UCL Information Studies, UCL Advanced Imaging Consultants (UCLAiC)
• Sophia Psarra: Professor of Architecture and Spatial Design, The Bartlett School of Architecture
• Jonathan Reades: Associate Professor in Spatial Data Science Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (UCL-CASA)
• Kaitlyn Regehr: Associate Professor in Digital Humanities,  UCL Information Studies
• Annie Ring: Associate Professor in German, School of European Languages, Culture and Society (SELCS)
• Daniela Romano: Senior Teaching Fellow in Computing and Information Systems, UCL Information Studies
• Simon Rowberry: Lecturer in Publishing, UCL Information Studies
• Benet Salway: Senior Lecturer, Dept of History
• Valerio Signorelli: Lecturer in Connected Environments (Virtual), Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (UCL-CASA)
• Hannah Smyth: Lecturer in Archives and Records, UCL Department of Information Studies  
• Lucy Stagg: Research Centres Coordinator, UCL Institute of Advanced Studies
• Karen Stepanyan: Senior Teaching Fellow, UCL Department of Information Studies
• Alice Stevenson: Associate Professor in Museum Studies, UCL Institute of Archaeology
• Matthew Symonds: Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Editing Lives and Letters
• Foteini Valeonti: AHRC Innovation Leadership Fellow, UCL Department of Information Studies
• Andreas Vlachidis: Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Information Science, UCL Department of Information Studies
• Tim Weyrich: Professor of Digital Reality, Friedrich-Alexander University (FAU) Erlangen-Nuremberg; Professor of Visual Computing, UCL Department of Computer Science
• Patrick White: Lecturer, Slade School of Fine Art
• Peter Williams: Research Fellow, UCL Department of Information Studies
• Tim Williams: Associate Professor, UCL Institute of Archaeology

UCLDH Honorary Members

• Simon Mahony: Emeritus Professor of Digital Humanities, Department of Information Studies, UCL; Executive Director of the Research Centre for Digital Publishing and Digital Humanities, Beijing Normal University at Zhuhai; Visiting Professor, Department of Information Management, Peking University.
• Melissa Terras: Honorary Professor of Digital Humanities UCLDH, Professor of Digital Cultural Heritage and Director of Digital Scholarship, College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, University of Edinburgh.
• Claire Warwick: Visiting Professor of Digital Humanities, UCL Department of Information Studies; Pro-Vice-Chancellor: Research, Durham University.

UCLDH-affiliated PhD Students

• Paolo Casani (2014-2024) works on examining the changes that ubiquitous internet and communication technologies (ICTs) induce into the aesthetic dimension by enacting new modes of perception, and how these in turn colour, filter and exclude aspects of how we come to understand our selves and the world. Supervisors: Julianne Nyhan and Jenny Bunn.
• Nenna Orie Chuku (2019-26) is exploring return migration in the African diaspora, through oral histories, participatory mapping, and visualisations. Supervisors: Oliver Duke-Williams, Annemaree Lloyd and Adam Crymble.
• Sarah Edwards (2019-23) is researching how literature is changing in the digital age and exploring how the internet and digital media influence the way people write and think.
• Marco Humbel (2018-23) is researching heritage organisations and how they might open up their collections with participatory communities. Supervisors: Julianne Nyhan, Andrew Flinn and Antonis Bikakis.
• Kalliopi Kontiza (2014-23), working on Cognitive Based Visualisation Framework for Exploring Structured Cultural Heritage Data. Supervisors: Antonis Bikakis, Rob Miller and Pete Williams.
• Deborah Leem (2017-23), working on computational approaches to deciphering the information architectures of Hans Sloane's catalogues of his collections. Supervisors: Julianne Nyhan.
• Zehao Li (2020-24) is building up computational spatial models on different ancient walls across Eurasia. Supervisor: Andrew Bevan and Tim Williams.
• Bingjun Liu (2019-23), works on widening information access to digital museums via mobile technologies. Supervisors:Oliver Duke-Williams and Adam Crymble.
• Olga Loboda (2017-22), works on 'The transformations of museum experience with an item-based recommender system during exploratory search'. Supervisors: Julianne Nyhan, Simon Mahony and Melissa Terras.
• Charlie Willard (2018-23) is researching 3D hyperspectral imaging of heritage using a robotically enabled system. Supervisors: Adam Gibson and Josep Grau-Bove.

UCLDH Industry Advisory Panel

• Rossitza Atanassova: Digital Curator, British Library
• Marion Crick: Head of Collections Management, V&A
• Martin Devereux: Head of Digital, The Postal Museum
• Kevin Evans: Business Development, Adobe
• Geoff Hughes: Business Development, Microsoft
• Jon Mc Namara: University Programs Manager, IBM
• Chris Michaels: Digital Director, The National Gallery
• Daniel Pett: Head of Digital and IT at Fitzwilliam Museum
• Laurence Ward: Head of Digital Services at London Metropolitan Archives, City of London
• Jo Townshend: Senior Partnerships Manager (Creative Industries), UCL Innovation and Enterprise

UCLDH Affiliates

• Rudolf Ammann: Designer at Large. Honorary Research Associate, UCL Department of Information Studies.
• Jack Ashby: Museum Manager, University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge
• Claire Bailey-Ross: Lecturer, University of Portsmouth
• James Baker: UCLDH Research Associate; Director of Digital Humanities, University of Southampton
• Gabriel Bodard: UCLDH Research Associate; Reader in Digital Classics at the Institute of Classical Studies
• Nick Booth: Head of Collections, SS Great Britain, Bristol
• Benedict Brown: Lecturer in Computer and Information Science, Yale University
• Liz Bruchet: UCLDH Research Associate; Slade Archive Project Researcher
• Alberto Campagnolo: Adjunct professor of Digital Humanities, University of Udine, and Director of Digital Medievalist
• Tim Causer: Senior Research Associate, Bentham Project
• Chris Dillon: Collection Metadata Systems Analyst, British Library
• Greta Franzini: Postdoctoral Researcher at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Milan, Italy).
• Thomas Funkhouser: Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Computer Science, Princeton University
• Ann Gow: Senior Lecturer, Department of Information Studies, University of Glasgow
• James Heatherington: Head of Research Software Development, UCL Research IT Services
• Mona Hess: UCLDH Research Associate; Professor for Digital Technologies in Heritage Conservation, University of Bamberg.
• Lorna Hughes: UCLDH Research Associate; Professor of Digital Humanities at the Department of Information Studies, University of Glasgow
• Stuart James: Postdoctoral Researcher at Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT); UCL Computer Science Honorary Research Associate
• Youkyung Ju: UCLDH Research Associate; Senior Lector in Korean, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, SOAS
• Federico Nanni, Research Data Scientist, The Alan Turing Institute
• Jamie O'Brien: Senior Research Associate, Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis
• Daniel Paul O'Donnell: Professor of English and Associate Member of the Library Research Staff, Centre for the Study of Scholarly Communication, University of Lethbridge
• Daniel Pett: Head of Digital and IT, Fitzwilliam Museum
• Ernesto Priego: Lecturer, Centre for Human Computer Interaction Design, City, University of London
• Lorna Richardson: Lecturer in Digital Humanities, University of East Anglia
• Stan Ruecker: Professor of Design, University of Illinois.
• Szymon Rusinkiewicz: Professor, Department of Computer Science, Princeton University
• Alison Searle: UCLDH Senior Research Associate; UAF in Textual Studies and Digital Editing, School of English, University of Leeds
• Edward Vanhoutte: Research Associate, UCL Department of Information Studies; Coordinator of the CTB (Centre for Scholarly Editing and Document Studies) a research institute of KANTL (Royal Academy of Dutch Language and Literature), Ghent, Belgium
• Shirley Williams: Visiting Researcher, UCL Department of Information Studies; National Teaching Fellow and Professor of Learning Technologies, University of Reading
• Jane Winters: UCLDH Research Associate; Professor of Digital Humanities, School of Advanced Study
• Sarah Young: Associate Professor in Russian, UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies
• Frauke Zeller: Associate Professor, School of Professional Communication, Ryerson University

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