Aleksandra is landscape architect and holds Ph.D. in technical sciences in the discipline of architecture and urban planning. She is employed at Faculty of Architecture of Wrocław University of Technology. Her doctoral thesis focused on the issues of reclamation of wetlands in urbanised structures and transformations of the landscape of sewage farms in both Poland and Germany. In her research, she deals with the issues of landscape identity and adaptation to climate change with the use of blue-green infrastructure. She tries to implement her theoretical knowledge into her design work. She is an author and co-author of numerous studies in the field of landscape architecture, expert studies and executive designs of parks, squares and naturalistic playgrounds, many of which have been implemented.

Ana Plosnić Škarić is Senior Researcher at the Institute of Art History, Zagreb, and Richard Krautheimer Fellow 2024, at the Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History, Rome. Her research encompasses medieval architectural and urban history. She is developing methods of using digital tools within the discipline of art history. She was the PI of the project Dubrovnik: Civitas et Acta Consiliorum. Visualising Changes on the Late Medieval Urban Fabric, funded by the Croatian Science Foundation (https://ducac.ipu.hr/project/), and currently working on the Bibliotheca Hertziana’s project “Towers in Times” (BH-P-24-11); published two books with the transcriptions of medieval archival documents; organised the conference and edited the book Mapping Urban Changes; co-organised, with Tanja Michalsky, a scientific workshop Past and Present Representations of Historical Urban Spaces (Middle Age – Early Modern Times). She was a Member of the Editorial Board of Radovi Instituta za povijest umjetnosti, and a Member of the Advisory Board of Renaissance Quarterly Journal (2023). She participated at the Getty Foundation Summer Institute Visualizing Venice Advanced Topics in Digital Art History: 3D and (Geo)Spatial Networks, Venice, 2018–2019, organised by Duke University NC, USA, Università di Padova, and VIU.

Anastasia Bauch studied architecture at the Bauhaus University Weimar and Heritage Science in Bamberg. Formerly working on archeaological sites and on buidling surveys of both contemporary and historic buildings, they are now working as a student assistant on the UrbanMetaMaping project. Anastasia is also pursuing a second Masters in Computing in the Humanities, focusing on the application of geographic information systems for historical research and communication. In their thesis they will use a deep map to explore the impact of the former industrial spinning mill 'ErBa' on Bamberg.

I work in the National Library of Finland and I am responsible for the Nordenskiöld Collection of early printed maps and literature on history, geography, and travel.

My research interests include history and religions of antiquity, history of sciences, and reception and after-effect of these. I have MA in history and art history in the University of Helsinki.

Antti Härkönen is junior researcher at the Department of Geographical and Historical Studies, University of Eastern Finland. He specialises in digital humanities, GIS, and quantitative methods, with focus on spatial history.

Benjamin Hitz is a lecturer and researcher at the University of Basel and a senior researcher in the project “Economies of Space. Practices, Discourses and Actors on the Basel Real Estate Market (1400-1700)”. His research interests are late medieval and early modern economic and social history, urban history and quantitative approaches on premodern source material.

Geographer at Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Master Student at Universidad Distrital FJC

Dr Carmen M. Enss is a researcher in heritage conservation, with expertise in urban conservation and city planning. Her earlier research interests involve the re-creation of historical urban spaces in post-war Germany, specifically in Munich. Her more recent work concerns theories for historic urban landscapes and spatial representations of urban heritage in the 20th century. More generally, she studies strategies and theories for reconciling city design and development planning with heritage preservation.

Since 2017, she has been a research associate at the Centre for Heritage Conservation Studies and Technologies (KDWT) at Bamberg University. Since 2020, she has led the UrbanMetaMapping consortium.

Carrie Beneš (New College of Florida) is a cultural historian of late medieval Italy whose research focuses on civic identity, landscape, and the classical tradition. She is the author of Urban Legends: Civic Identity & the Classical Past in Northern Italy, 1250–1350 (2011), editor of A Companion to Medieval Genoa (2018), and translator of Jacopo da Varagine’s Chronicle of the city of Genoa (2019).

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Cristina A. G. Kiminami a visiting research fellow at the Digital Humanities Department at King's College London. She is an architect and urbanist that holds a PhD from the Digital Humanities Department at King's College London, her doctoral thesis focused on how locative media affects users' cognitive perceptions in urban environments. This research was centred on the current context of intense use of portable devices connected to the internet, which mediates between people and places, experiences, and memories. The modes of perception of the world through these digital mediations are fundamentally based on the association of information with geolocation, trajectories and occupancy of physical space. She explored this study through a deep mapping process using a set of qualitative methods.

Dr. Daniel Rosenberg completed his PhD in 2019 in the Department of Political Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Since then, he has been working in the fields of data science and GIS analysis, as well as conducting political and historical research.

Dariusz Gierczak studied Geography and Slavic Studies at the Philipps University of Marburg and has held various positions at the Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe since 2008. Among other things, he was editorial member of the Encyclopaedia of the European East at the University of Klagenfurt from 2004-2007 and worked as an editor for the Historical-Topographical Atlas of Silesian Cities from 2008-2014. In 2016-2018 he worked on the project "Upper Silesia from the air" at the University of Siegen and in 2018/2019 on the project " Topography of the Shoah in Breslau/Wrocław 1933-1949" at the TU Dresden. 2019-2022 he coordinated the project “Names change, places too. The Challenge of Developing Geodata-Based Gazetteer Research Technologies and Methods”. The thematic focus of his work is on cartography, migration and urban research; in terms of content, he deals with controlled vocabulary and metadata structures not only in his current position as a data researcher and standards and metadata editor.

Dominik Kremer is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department Digital Humanities and Social Studies at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg. His research focuses on crisis narratives and place-based multi-modal data analysis.

Dr. Don Lafreniere is Professor of Geography & GIS and Department Chair in the Department of Social Sciences at Michigan Technological University. He uses public-participatory GIS methodologies for recreating historical industrial environments and spatializing populations. He has published extensively on topics such as 19th century social mobility, segregation, and daily lives in industrial cities. His recent work includes creating technological solutions for industrial heritage preservation and interpretation using geospatial methods to create more sustainable futures in industrial cities in North America’s Rust Belt. His latest publication is entitled "Built and Social Indicators for Hazards in Children's Environments" published in Health & Place

Carol Ludwig works at Saarland University (Germany) where she teaches in Human Geography and leads the BMBF-funded subproject Sozialkartographie (part of the UrbanMetaMapping Research Consortium). She is an urban planner and social geographer with professional experience in local and regional municipalities, and in universities in the UK.

I have a Bachelor (1st) in Computer Science, a Masters in Advanced Software Engineering, and a PhD in Natural Language Processing (NLP). I am interested in the application of NLP techniques in low-resource domains. My interests span other related areas like spatial narratives corpus linguistics, distributional semantics, information retrieval and extraction, machine learning, data science, deep neural models, and general AI. Currently, I am the lead software developer on the £814k SBE-UKRI project trying to understand imprecise space and time in textual narratives through qualitative representations, reasoning, and visualization.

Elad Horn is an Azrieli Research Fellow and a PhD candidate in the Big Data in Architectural Research Lab (BDAR) at the Technion in Israel. He received his Master of Design Studies from Harvard University and his Bachelor of Architecture from the Bezalel Academy in Jerusalem. Elad’s research in architectural history and spatial humanities examines how economic transformative processes shaped new architectural idioms in Tel Aviv-Yafo in the 1980s and 1990s. His latest book, PoMo – Architecture of Privatization (2021), documented the evolution of Tel Aviv’s architectural landscape following Israel’s transition towards neoliberalism at the end of the 20th century.

Eliane Schmid is a doctoral researcher at the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital
History (C²DH), researching the development of public urban green spaces in the port-cities of
Hamburg and Marseille post-World War II. Her interests focus on urban (re-)building and
planning as well as migration in the decolonization and postcolonial period. She consults theories
from spatial, port-city and (trans-)urban history, as well as human geography while applying GIS
(Geographic Information Systems) as a tool for analysis and visualization.

Emory Shaw is a lecturer and researcher in GIS and cartography at Concordia University (Montreal, Canada) in the Department of Geography, Planning and Environment. Since 2015, he has worked on a range of projects that touch on technical and theoretical aspects of stories, maps, and media. In 2022, he began doctoral studies on the lived experiences of housing.

Francesca Russello Ammon is associate professor of City & Regional Planning and Historic Preservation at the University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design. A social and cultural historian of the post-WWII built environment, she is the author of Bulldozer: Demolition and Clearance of the Postwar Landscape, winner of the Lewis Mumford Prize for the best book in American planning history. She is currently writing a history of postwar preservation and urban renewal based upon the Philadelphia neighborhood of Society Hill. Her research also leverages the digital humanities to integrate photographs, oral histories, and other historical records into narratives of urban change through her website Preserving Society Hill and an NEH-funded exploration of Ed Ruscha’s photographic documentation of Los Angeles’s Sunset Boulevard.

Franziska Klemstein is an art historian and preservationist. Since June 2023, she has held the Tandem Professorship for Digital Methodology in the Humanities and Cultural Studies at the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz and Mainz University of Applied Sciences. She studied art history and history at the Freie Universität Berlin and the Vrijen Universiteit Amsterdam as well as art history and art technology at the Technische Universität Berlin. Her research focuses on architectural history, monument preservation and digital humanities.

Gábor Oláh, PhD in Urban studies and History, postdoctoral researcher at ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest and Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University. He holds three master’s degrees: MA in History (ELTE), MA in Urban Studies (École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris) and MSc in Environmental and Regional Economics (Budapest University of Technology and Economics). In 2023, he defended his PhD dissertation in the framework of ELTE-EHESS cotutelle program. His research is focused on urban heritage discourse, the concepts of urban landscape and neighbourhood, as well as issues related to culture-led urban regeneration. He has been involved in several EU-funded and other international research projects: REACH (2017-2020), UNCHARTED (2020-2024), SECreTour (2024-2027), HerEntrep (2024-2027).

Hamid Salimi is currently a first-year PhD student in heritage conservation at the University of Tehran. He is working under the supervision of Dr. Somayeh Fadaei Nezhad Bahramjerdi. The working title of his thesis is "Community-led Conservation and Development through Participatory Land Use Planning." His research aims to address the balance and integration between conservation and development in heritage areas by involving social groups in the process. His research also focuses on the significant challenges related to conservation and development in heritage areas, particularly those associated with land and its planning methods. These challenges often lead to conflicts among decision-makers and other social groups. If left unaddressed, they could result in irreparable damage to the values of heritage areas. In light of these challenges, Hamid's doctoral thesis intends to implement "participatory land use planning" to effectively integrate conservation and development in heritage areas. This approach is essential in mitigating the conflicts arising from urban planning systems and decision-making tools. Overall, Hamid's research seeks to contribute to the comprehensive understanding and effective management of heritage areas by bridging the gap between conservation and development through participatory land use planning.

Ian Gregory is Distinguished Professor of Digital Humanities at Lancaster University. His main research interests are in how geospatial technologies can be used to better understand the humanities. He has written seven books, most recently Deep Mapping the Literary Lake District (with Joanna Taylor), and edited two collections. He has also published around 100 other articles, chapters and papers. He has been involved in around 25 funded projects including "Understanding space and time in narratives through qualitative representation, reasoning and visualisation" funded the the UK Economic & Social Research Council and the US National Science Foundation.

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Irit Carmon Popper is an art curator and researcher in visual culture. She earned her BA and MFA in Philosophy and Art History at The Hebrew University, Jerusalem; her curatorship diploma at the Tel Aviv University; and her PhD at the Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning, Technion IIT, Haifa. Her interdisciplinary research conjures contemporary art with architectural preservation situated in contested sites such as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It was awarded the 2020 magna cum laude Ben Halpern Award of the Israel Studies Association (ISA). Her latest articles published in Arts Journal, Special Issue "Renegotiating Identity, Reenacting History – 21st Century Art in Israel” (2022), and in “Dada and Its Later Manifestations in the Geographic Margins,” Routledge Research in Art History series of Books (2024). Her current research expands to sustainability strategies and digital immersive.
Her curatorial experience ranges from various exhibitions from institutions to alternative spaces such as The Israel Museum, The Petach Tikva Museum of Art, Umm El-Fahem Art Gallery, Artists’ Studios in Jerusalem, and Beit Ha'Gefen Arab-Jewish Culture Center in Haifa.

James Juip is a senior research associate for the Geospatial Research Facility, community and education outreach specialist for the Historical Environments Spatial Analytics Lab, and PhD Candidate in the Industrial Archaeology and Heritage program at Michigan Technological University. James is also an educator for Gidakiimanaaniwigamig S.T.E.M. camp for Indigenous youth sponsored by Fond du Lac Tribal College. He has 13 years of public engagement experience in the fields of heritage interpretation and education outreach. He earned the Commissioner Recognition Award for his exceptional work in heritage interpretation and community outreach for the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources in 2018. His current research focuses on the integration of community based participatory research, historic geospatial data, and modern interpretation methods to create a more holistic and inclusive narrative of past and present mining communities.

James J. Connolly is George and Frances Ball Distinguished Professor of History and Director of the Center for Middletown Studies at Ball State University. His scholarship focuses on political, cultural, and social history in U.S. cities. His publications include Vulnerable Communities: Research, Policy and Practice (2022); Print Culture Histories Beyond the Metropolis (2016), and What Middletown Read: Print Culture in an American Small City (2015); An Elusive Unity: Urban Democracy and Machine Politics in Industrializing America (2010). He has also helped produce a variety of digital humanities projects. He co-directs Deep Mapping Middletown with John Fillwalk.

Assistant Professor at Flagler College

Joana Vieira Paulino holds a PhD in History, with a specialisation in Contemporary History from Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas from Universidade Nova de Lisboa (NOVA FCSH) since 2019. She had a fellowship from the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology to complete this degree. She has a Master Degree in the same area since 2013 and a Graduation in History from the same institution since 2010. She is currently a researcher in the Institute of Contemporary History, where she works as a junior contracted researcher in the Digital Humanities Lab. She received the Cascais History Award - Ferreira de Andrade (2015, 1st edition) and an award from Asociación de Demografia Histórica as the third junior best research (2016). She teaches Applied Computing to History in the History Graduation from NOVA FCSH. She worked in several research projects in academic Portuguese institutions as a fellow; and integrates national and international projects as a researcher. She is an editor of The Programming Historian Portuguese team and managing editor of the International Journal of Humanities and Artes Computing, published by Edinburgh University Press. Her research interests include Social and Mentalities History, Child Welfare, Urban History, Digital Humanities and Spacial Analysis.

Johannes Mast is a PhD student in the field of Geography who specializes in applied Earth Observation, geoanalysis, and text analysis. He currently works at the German Aerospace Center and with the Geolingual Studies Team at the University of Würzburg on the topics of Migration and Urban Geography.

John Fillwalk is an internationally recognized artist and practitioner of virtual reality and interactive environments. He serves as the founder and Senior Director of the Institute for Digital Intermedia Arts [IDIA Lab] at Ball State University. IDIA Lab is a virtual and augmented reality design studio exploring the intersections of art, science, humanities, and technology. The lab was founded as part of a 40-million-dollar grant from Eli Lilly Endowment’s Digital Media Initiative. He has served as president of the Hans Breder Foundation - an international organization to promote the preservation, collection and exhibition of pioneering digital artworks. He has numerous grants, awards, fellowships, publications, and presentations.

His artworks have been exhibited internationally in festivals, galleries, museums, and other venues including several SIGGRAPHs, CYNETart, Synthése, 404 Festival, Dutch Design Week, Boston Cyberarts, Virtual Broad Art Museum, ISEA, ASCI, Vidéoformes, Indian Institute of Technology, History Channel, New York Hall of Science, Laval Virtual, Beecher Center for Digital Art and the Beijing Science and Technology Museum.

John Hindmarch is a research associate at the Digital Technologies in Heritage chair in Bamberg University. His doctorate is in 3D imaging for cultural heritage institutions and his research projects continue to investigate the 3D digitisation of heritage objects, from Jewish gravestones to Baroque ceilinhg paintings.

Jolene DuBray has served as the Archives Specialist at Flagler College since 2014, where she holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Art and Art History. Throughout her tenure, Jolene has been instrumental in engaging the college community with archival materials through both physical and digital exhibitions, as well as various work-study and internship programs.

In 2023, her dedication to preservation and collaboration was highlighted when she successfully secured a National Endowment for the Humanities Preservation Assistance Grant for small institutions in collaboration with her colleagues at the Proctor Library. This grant funded a preservation assessment from the Northeast Document Conservation Center that will ensure the long-term preservation of invaluable collections, including personal papers and corporate records, with a particular focus on Henry Morrison Flagler, his family, the Hotel Ponce de Leon, and Flagler’s other enterprises.

Jolene's commitment to preserving local heritage extends beyond her role at Flagler College. She has collaborated with other St. Augustine heritage institutions on multiple history projects, demonstrating her passion for community engagement and historical preservation

Julius Wilm is a postdoctoral researcher at Leipzig University’s Collaborative Research Centre (SFB) 1199 “Processes of Spatialization under the Global Condition” since 2021. He obtained his PhD in Anglo-American History from the University of Cologne in 2016 with a dissertation on free land colonization schemes in the antebellum United States and has taught at the universities of Copenhagen and Lucerne. In 2019–2020 he was the Gerda Henkel Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital History at the German Historical Institute Washington and George Mason University’s Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, where he began work on a digital mapping project on the Homestead Act with a particular emphasis on the law’s impact on Native nations throughout the US West between 1863 and 1912.

Dr Kalle Westerling is currently working as a Research Application Manager with The Alan Turing Institute's Data/Culture project, where he focuses on building sustainable communities around Arts and Humanities datasets and tools — among them MapReader. His work addresses particular challenges in research software development, ensuring that tools and data reach and engage audiences beyond the original project team. By fostering collaboration and accessibility, Kalle aims to create lasting impact and wider adoption of these resources within the broader research community.

Karl Grossner is a geographer and digital humanities research developer. He has served as Technical Director of the World Historical Gazetteer project since its inception in 2017. His research has involved various aspects of "computing place," including conceptual and logical models, applied in both bespoke and infrastructural research-oriented web applications.

Katherine McDonough is a Lecturer in Digital Humanities in the Department of History at Lancaster University and Senior Research Fellow at The Alan Turing Institute. Her first book manuscript Public Work: Making Roads and Citizens in Eighteenth-Century France examines unsuccessful socio-economic reforms related to infrastructure development in pre-Revolutionary France. Her digital work uses computational image, text, and spatial analysis to create new ways of doing historical research with large cultural heritage collections as data. With colleagues from Living with Machines, a landmark UK project using maps, newspaper, and census data at scale to write new histories of industrializing Britain, she co-developed the MapReader software library, a tool for analyzing visual information on large corpora of historical maps. She was the UK PI on Machines Reading Maps, a project that creates, curates, and analyzes datasets of text on maps for research and discovery applications is now a Co-Investigator on the Data/Culture project at the Turing, which focuses on building sustainable communities around computational methods and data in the humanities.

Dr. Klaus Stein is a senior researcher at the Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg. His main research areas are spatial cognition/geo-informatics and social network analysis. He studied Informatics (Computer Science) at the TU München and participated in the interdisciplinary DFG priority program “spatial cognition” for his PhD.

Klaus is particularly interested in the ongoing digital transformation taking place in the Social Sciences and Humanities. He enjoys collaborating with researchers and students from different fields on various interdisciplinary projects.

Laura Brannan Fretwell is a fifth year PhD candidate in the History and Art History Department at George Mason University. She received a Master’s in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from Georgia State University in 2019. Her dissertation research focuses on issues over race, commemoration, and public space in the nineteenth century American South through a case study of a municipal park developed in the Reconstruction era and today managed by the National Park Service’s Richmond National Battlefield Park in a historically African American neighborhood. She has received fellowships at both George Mason University’s Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media and the Center for Humanities Research, the University of Luxembourg’s Centre for Contemporary and Digital History, the HASTAC Scholars Program, and the Cosmos Scholars Program. Laura is interested in spatial history, digital public history, community engaged methods, and memory studies.

Leon van Wissen has a background in Dutch literature and computational linguistics and works in the Humanities Labs of the University of Amsterdam. As Data Engineer in Cultural Data Collection and Linking at the UvA's Data Science Centre, he models cultural heritage data as Linked Open Data and contributes to the development of research infrastructures such as the GLOBALISE project (KNAW-HuC), and the Amsterdam Time Machine (UvA).

Lodewijk Petram is a senior researcher and project manager at the Huygens Institute for History and Culture of the Netherlands in Amsterdam. Together with the GLOBALISE project team, he works on developing a digital research infrastructure that makes the Dutch East India Company archives, including its vast map collection, more accessible and fosters new research opportunities.

I am Professor of Contemporary History at the Federal University of São Paulo where I also coordinate the Digital Humanities Laboratory. I direct the “History, Maps, and Computers” Research Group that focuses on the relationship between digital humanities, collaborative work practices, and the free circulation of knowledge.
I currently research geo-technologies for historical research in Pauliceia 2.0, an open platform for the collaborative mapping of São Paulo in the 19th and 20th centuries. This project, a partnership between the Federal University of São Paulo, the Brazilian National Institute for Space Research, the São Paulo State Archives, and Emory University, is the winner of an eScience grant from FAPESP.

I received my BA and Ph.D. in History from the University of Sao Paulo and have been a visiting professor at the Consejo de Investigaciones Científicas (Spain), Stanford University and Emory University, both in the United States.

Maarten Van Dijck (1980) is associate professor in history and theory of the social sciences at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. His teaching concerns the theories and methodologies used in historical and social research. Maarten is specialised in urban history from long-term perspective. His PhD research dealt with the complex relation between criminalization, urbanization and behavior changes in the urban societies of the Low Countries during the late medieval and early modern period. This thesis claims that urban growth in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries caused the decline of interpersonal violence in Europe. Homcide rates tend to be lower in larger cities, especially after 1500. He also studied the evolution of democracy, civil societies and public spheres in the Low Countries during the late medieval and the early modern period. A third research line deals with the unequal distribution of social resources in the Low Countries during the early modern period.
Maarten's research makes use of concepts from the social sciences to understand long-term historical developments such as the rise of democratic societies. Methodologically, he makes use of digital humanities techniques in his research such as GIS and Social Network Analysis.

Mária Vargha is Assistant Professor for Spatial Approaches to Medieval Studies at the University of Vienna. In 2023, she was awarded an ERC StG titled ‘RELIC’ (Modelling Religiopolitics. The Imperium Christianum via its Commoners), which she started in 2024 at the University of Vienna. Since 2022, she has been a committee member of the Medieval Europe Research Community (MERC) and a founding member of the European Medieval Finds Network. Her publication and research activity mainly concentrate on social and religious history, social, landscape and burial archaeology, and the material culture of the High Middle Ages. A particular interest of hers is discovering new possibilities to investigate the social and religious history and archaeology of the everyday people using diverse Digital Humanities methods, principally with GIS and network analysis, integrating various archaeological and historical data, particularly the use of archival archaeological data.

Maximilian Pfost is an associate professor at the Department of Educational Research at the University of Bamberg, Germany. His research interests are in reading development and self-regulated learning in higher education.

Melchior Jakubowski, PhD – historian and art historian. His research interests include historical geography and landscape history, Rococo art, religious and ethnic relations in the Commonwealth of Poland and Lithuania. Currently he conducts a project "Jesuits of the East? Artistic network of the Basilian order in eighteenth-century Poland-Lithuania", based at the Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences.

I am a historian working for the ERC funded Reginfra project at KULeuven, researching the visual representation of landscape and infrastructures in Chinese Local Gazetteers of the Ming and Qing periods.

Professor for Digitale Technologies in Heritage Conservation
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Niklas Alt works at the Hessische Institut für Landesgeschichte (Hessian Institute for Regional History) in the field of digital history with an special emphasis on spatial humanities. He is involved with the creation of workflows and applications for the digitization and presentation of historical maps online.

Noemi Quagliati is a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at Ca' Foscari University of Venice, with the project "Bird's-Eye Views of the Venetian Lagoon. Planetary Visions and Birdscapes of an Aquatic Ecosystem," and a member of THE NEW INSTITUTE Centre for Environmental Humanities (NICHE). She received a PhD in art history from Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society on the subject of landscape photography in WWI Germany. Before joining Ca' Foscari, Noemi lectured on German eco-aesthetics at the Junior Year in Munich program (LMU and Wayne State University) and offered courses on North American photography and art at LMU’s Amerika-Institut. Over the last years, she has also been a visiting researcher at the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Georgia, and the Research Institute for the History of Science and Technology of the Deutsches Museum, where she has collaborated on modernizing the museum’s historical aviation section by investigating the topic of aerial photography.

Dr. Nora Heyne has been a research associate and lecturer at the Otto-Friedrich-University Bamberg since 2018. She previously worked at the University of Koblenz-Landau, the Technical University of Dortmund and the Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories in Bamberg. Previously, she completed her doctorate on video-based analyses of reading instruction in primary school. Her current work focuses on studies on precursor skills and factors influencing the development of reading literacy and related skills, such as reading motivation and perspective-taking in text comprehension, as well as measures to promote them in adolescents. Since 2018, in addition to her studies on reading literacy, she has been involved in teaching and teacher training studies.

Olena Morenets is a PhD student at the University of Zürich and at the Institute of Philology of the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (Ukraine). She also worked as a teaching assistant at the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv for two years. Her research interests cover Late Medieval and Early Modern English Travel Writing, Sensory Environments, Memory Studies, Discourse Studies, and Cognitive Linguistics. She is the author of several publications on manifestations of the olfactory phenomenon in the Italian poetry of the 20th century. She is currently investigating the concept of smell in English Travel Literature (from the Late Middle Ages to the Early Modern Period). She presented her paper The Role of Smell in Early Modern Travel Writing on the example of texts by Thomas Gage and Willam Dampier at the conference EMSE 2023: Early Modern Sensory Encounters, Kellogg College, University of Oxford (2023), and completed a project on smell of the Rialto Fish Market in Venice during her participation in Summer School on Linguistic Landscapes: Using Signs and Symbols to Translate Cities, Venice International University (2023).

Olufemi is a Newton International Fellow at School of Humanities and Heritage, University of Lincoln researching ‘Climate Risk and Vulnerability of Cultural Heritage in Nigeria: Mapping and Investigating Nature-based Adaptation Strategies’. His research areas crosscut the fields of sustainability, climate change, heritage conservation and management, and community engagement. As an early career researcher, I have contributed to mainstreaming climate preparedness and adaptation planning across communities in Sub-Saharan Africa and Australia. He is a member of ICOMOS (International Council on Monuments and Sites) and three International Scientific Committees on disaster risk management, energy and sustainability, and climate action. His expertise includes cultural heritage management, climate change adaptation, disaster risk management, digital heritage, heritage documentation, community participation and education for sustainable development.

Oryan Shachar is an architect, a graduate of Bezalel (2002), completed her MA and PhD at the Faculty of Architecture at the Technion (2012). Her doctoral dissertation engages in modern architecture, urban communities, and historical narratives in Hatzor Haglilit. Her Post-Doctoral research about the history of architectural preservation in Israel will soon be published as a book in Hebrew. Oryan was the Publication House Manager of the Avie and Sarah Arenson Built Heritage Research Center in the Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning at the Technion (2018- 2024). She teaches architectural conservation, architectural documentation, and history of worship sites at the faculty of Architecture at the Technion, Haifa, and Western Galilee College.

Øyvind Eide is a professor in Digital Humanities at the University of Cologne. He holds a PhD in Digital Humanities from King's College London (2013). He was an employee in various positions at The University of Oslo from 1995 to 2013, working on digital humanities and cultural heritage informatics. From 2013 to 2015 he was a Lecturer and research associate at The University of Passau. He was the chair of The European Association for Digital Humanities (EADH) from 2016–19 and also actively engaged in several other international organisations including ICOM's International Committee for Documentation (CIDOC). His research interests are focused on transformative digital intermedia studies as a tool for critical engagement with media differences, especially the relationships between texts and maps as media of communication. He is also engaged in theoretical studies of modelling in the humanities as well as beyond.

Paul van de Laar (1959) holds a chair in cities as a portal of globalization and urban history and is head of the History department, Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication. His research focuses on comparative port city history and migration history. Together with his colleague Peter Scholten he published a book on Rotterdam’s superdiversity titled: The Real Rotterdammer Is From Elsewhere: Rotterdam Migration City 1600-2022. As core-member of PortCity Futures he is now involved in port city transitions: Gattopardian Transitions: Misleading Narratives in Port City Futures.

Peter Kuntner is a technician at the Department of Educational Research at the University of Bamberg, Germany. As a full-stack developer he builds both the front end and the back end of the app.

PhD Candidate in Digital Technologies in Heritage Conservation, Institute of Archaeology, Heritage Conservation and Art History, Otto-Friedrich University of Bamberg, Germany

Since January 2020, Rita Gudermann is head of the institute-funded project to improve the digital infrastructure of the scientific collections of the IRS. She studied history, German language and literature and biology at the Free University of Berlin, where she earned her doctorate in 1998 at the Department of Economic and Social History of the Faculty of Economic Sciences on the topic of 19th century agricultural land improvement in Brandenburg and Westphalia. She then worked for many years as a research assistant at the economic history institutes of the Free University of Berlin and the Humboldt University of Berlin. Her main areas of expertise are agricultural and environmental history and media economics of the 19th and 20th centuries. She also has many years of professional experience as an IT consultant in the field of DAM and ERP systems.

Rombert Stapel is senior researcher at the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam, Netherlands. His work encompasses the medieval historiography of the military orders, socioeconomic history and population geography of the medieval and early-modern Low Countries, and digital humanities – with a special focus on geohumanities and the application of historical GIS.

Research Data Scientist/ Software Engineer at the Alan Turing Institute.
Lead developer for MapReader.

A PhD. candidate in Peking University, International Scholar in KU Leuven. My research interest is the national gazetteers from the Sui to Song dynasties.

Sander Molenaar is a postdoctoral researcher in the project ‘The Lives and Afterlives of Imperial Material Infrastructure in Southeastern China’, which is part of a large-scale collaborative project on the social and regional histories of material infrastructures (roads, bridges, city walls (1000-1800) under the supervision of prof. Hilde De Weerdt.
He studied Languages and Cultures of China, as well as European Expansion and Globalization History, at Leiden University, where he wrote a thesis on the collective memory of Ming eunuch Zheng He (1371-1435). His subsequent PhD research at Warwick University was concerned with the impact of coastal violence on state-society relations during the mid-Ming period (ca. 1450-1600).
Sander is interested in the digital exploration of local gazetteers from the Ming (1368-1644) and Qing (1644-1911) dynasties, especially in relation to the impact of the maritime world on coastal societies.

I am a professor in the Department of Geography, Planning and Environment at Concordia University (Montréal Tiohtià:ke). My research lies at the intersection of Cartography and Oral History. I am a mapmaker interested in mapping stories to better understand the complex relationships that exist between places, narratives, memories and maps. As the founder and director of the Geomedia Lab (http://geomedialab.org/), I have led the development of Atlascine (https://atlascine.org/), an open source mapping application dedicated to map collections of stories in depth and to reflect on cartographic processes and practices. Atlascine has been used to produce several online atlases, including The Atlas of Rwandan Life Stories. Between 2020 and 2023, I also had the chance to be the lead co-director of the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling at Concordia University (COHDS) (http://storytelling.concordia.ca/).

Selin Sur is a conservation architect and scholar, holding a Bachelor's Degree from the Architecture Department at Yildiz Technical University (2011) and a Master's Degree from the Graduate Program of Restoration at Istanbul Technical University (2015). With a rich professional background, she has undertaken pivotal roles as a conservation architect and project coordinator, contributing significantly to diverse restoration and conservation projects.

Currently pursuing a Ph.D. at Middle East Technical University, Selin Sur's research is centered on preserving the Medieval (Byzantine) cultural heritage of Trabzon. Her academic interests extend to Byzantine art and architecture, urban archaeology, digital heritage, and geographic information systems (GIS).

Sinai Rusinek is a consultant, project lead, and entrepreneur of various Digital Humanities projects, currently mainly active in Elijah Lab, Haifa University, and OMILab, the Open University. Among recent projects that she has initiated, led, or participated in are an OCR improvement pipeline towards Computational Analysis of Historical Hebrew Newspapers, including a recent paper on leveraging vector similarity for place name retrieval from the corpus; training Named Recognition Model for Yiddish in the New Languages for NLP Princeton institute, and data modeling and handwritten Yiddish text recognition at the DYBBUK ERC funded project. She also took part in three successful applications for DH projects which are currently active: an ISF granted project on Hasidic stories, two MOST supported projects - MEHDIE: Middle Eastern Historical Data Integration Endeavor, and a project on computational stylistics of a Modern Hebrew literary corpus, as well as a DSRC granted research on an AI-based pipeline for processing archival material.

Dr. Somayeh Fadaei Nezhad Bahramjerdi (Corresponding Author)
Country: Iran
E-mail: sarafadaei@ut.ac.ir

Position/Title: Associate Professor, Conservation of Architectural & Urban Heritage Department, College of Fine Arts, University of Tehran.
Vice-Chancellor of Education and Graduate Studies of College of Fine Arts, University of Tehran.
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Somayeh Fadaei Nezhad Bahramjerdi is a member of National Committee for Documentation and Conservation of Building, Sites and Neighborhoods of the Modern Movement (DOCOMOMO- Iran) and National Committee for the Conservation of the Industrial Heritage (TICCIH- Iran) and ICOMOS in Iran.
She is director of numerous projects in the field of architectural and urban heritage conservation at the national and international levels. The most recent of these is the “Capacity Building in Sustainability for Architectural Heritage- SAH” under EU Erasmus plus action 2 capacity building program with Italy, Germany, Greece, Russia and Armenia, and the project entitled “Tehran Industrial Heritage Conservation Plan” which carried out for Municipality of Tehran.

Economic Historian and Software Developer
https://bit.ly/m/stephen_gadd

Technical Director: World Historical Gazetteer, Pitt University, Pittsburgh USA
GIS Consultant: Layers of London, University of London, London UK
Formerly Research Curator: Geospatial Cultural Heritage, British Library, London UK

"Illegal Quays: Elizabethan Customs Reforms and Suppression of the Coastal Trade of Christchurch, Hampshire." The Economic History Review 71, no. 3 (2018): 727-746.

"The Emergence and Development of Statutory Process for the Compulsory Purchase of Land for Transport Infrastructure in England and Wales, c.1530-1800," Journal of Legal History 40:1 (2019): 1-20.

PhD (Winchester, 2019): "Christchurch, its Haven, and the Salisbury Avon: Economic and Legal Contexts of Failed Incorporation, 1606-1721".

MA (Cambridge, 1989), Engineering.

Dr. Stig Roar Svenningsen holds an MSSc degree in history and Geography and a PhD in geography from Roskilde University. Currently, he is a senior researcher at the Special Collections at the Royal Danish Library. He is responsible for the collections of maps and aerial photographs at the Royal Danish Library. His current research focuses on 19th century topographic maps as data sources in landscape research and the history of cartography in relation to the Cold War.

Stuart Dunn is Professor of Spatial Humanities at King's College London. He is a specialist in Humanities GIS and author of numerous works on the subject, including "A History of Place in the Digital Age" (Routledge 2019). He is interested in modelling how people, location and place interact, and how those interactions are expressed digitally, for example through the application of GIS to historical placenames and non-extant hierarchical and administrative systems. He is also interested in the theory of abstract spatial semantics and historical gazetteers. Stuart currently works on projects in digital folklore and storytelling, Critical GIS, cultural heritage, and the archaeology of mobility. He works on computational approaches to art history (leading the Ancient Itineraries project), funded by the Getty Foundation), and has interests in digital folklore. Recently he has become interested in the presence and representation of death and funeral rituals in the landscape. Stuart was Head of KCL's Department of Digital Humanities between 2019 and 2023.

Sunkyu Lee is a social and cultural historian of early modern China and East Asia, working as a postdoctoral researcher on the project ‘Regionalizing Infrastructures in Chinese History’ at KU Leuven. She received Ph.D. in History (2021) from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
Her dissertation, “The Cartographic Construction of Borders in Ming China, 1368-1644,” investigates the role of maps in facilitating a new vision of frontier spaces that were demarcated by clear boundaries between Ming and the outside world. Comparing two geographically different frontier spaces—northern steppe and southern maritime frontiers, her research elucidates how the cartographic transformation was closely intertwined with political and intellectual endeavors to create new territorial and cultural identities in the age of increasing transregional contacts.
Her current research project, titled 'Steppe, Forest, and River: Wall Histories in East Asia between the fifteenth- and seventeenth- centuries' investigates how wall-building emerged as a dominant strategy across multiple, geographically disparate frontiers of early modern East Asia. Applying digital technologies to historical texts and maps, her project aims to visualize cross-regional patterns of boundary-making practices, with emphasis on how local ecology and technological knowledge have interacted with material outcomes.

Susanna Phillips Newbury (she/her) is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She completed her undergraduate degree at Oberlin College, and her Ph.D. at Yale University. Her research and teaching interests focus on the social history of twentieth and twenty-first century art, histories of photography and architecture, urban studies, and economic geography. Her first book, The Speculative City was published in 2021 by the University of Minnesota Press.

Taylor Zaneri is a postdoctoral researcher at the International Institute for Social History.

Tobias Hodel is assistant professor of digital humanities at the University of Bern. He combines machine learning approaches with questions of the humanities.

Assistant professor at Aalborg University, the department of computer science. Researches AI-assisted data integration in collaboration with domain experts in a variety of domains: oceanography, medicine, art, history, and geography. Research focus is on creating practical tools for researchers to work with large-scale connected data using a variety of technologies.

As a senior lecturer at Hamada Academy, Dr. Yaron Silverstein specializes in research within Sage literature and contemporary Zionist-religious halacha. His forthcoming book, focusing on the State of Israel in Rabbi Shlomo Goren's halachic thought, is slated for publication in 2022 on the recommendation of Magnes. Over the past two years, he has notably released scholarly digital editions of the Rosh Hashanah and Sukkah tractates from the Jerusalem Talmud.

Yew-Foong HUI is an anthropologist and Professor at Hong Kong Shue Yan University, Hong Kong. In 2008-2009 and 2011-2015, he led the heritage documentation of two major Chinese cemeteries in Singapore. He has conducted field research among Chinese communities in different parts of Southeast Asia, and his research interests include Chinese diasporic heritage, digital heritage, and cemetery studies, among others.