Lead Program Chairs (scientific committee)
Iason Jongepier
Iason holds a FED-tWIN mandate which consists of two combined appointments as tenure track assistant Professor at the University of Antwerp, Centre for Urban History, and as work leader in the State Archives in Belgium. He specializes in Historical GIS, Historical Cartography, Spatial Humanities and Digital Historical Geography.
Suzan Verberne
Suzan is Associate Professor at the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science at Leiden University.
Isabelle Gribomont
Isabelle holds a FED-tWIN mandate and is a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Natural Language Processing (CENTAL) at UCLouvain and lead of LabeL (Laboratory for Electronic Literature) at KBR – Royal Library of Belgium.
General Chairs
Julie M. Birkholz
Julie, holds a FED-tWIN mandate and is Assistant Professor of Digital Humanities at the Ghent Centre for Digital Humanities at Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium & Lead of KBR- Royal Library of Belgium’s Digital Research Lab.
Sally Chambers
Sally is a Co-President of Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities (DARIAH), research Coordinator at the Ghent Centre for Digital Humanities at Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium & Coordinator of KBR- Royal Library of Belgium’s Data.KBR.be research project.
Additional Scientific Program & Local Chairs from the Belgium DH Community (A > Z)
Cédrick Fairon
Cédrick is Full Professor in Natural Language Processing, and Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Philosophy and Letters of the University of Louvain, Belgium.
Mike Kestemont
Mike is Associate Professor in the Department of Literature at the University of Antwerp, Belgium.
Sébastien de Valeriola
Sébastien is Assistant Professor, Digital Humanities chair, Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium.
Christophe Verbruggen
Christophe is the Director of the Ghent Centre for Digital humanities and associate professor at the research unit Social History since 1750, Department of History, Ghent University, Belgium.
Communication support
Tess Dejaeghere
Tess Dejaeghere is a PhD student at the Ghent Centre for Digital Humanities who is currently working on the Computational Literary Studies (CLS) Horizon 2020 project. Her main interest is in exploring applications of NLP tools to support literary-historical research.
Yu Tao
Yu Tao is an advanced master’s student in digital humanities at KU Leuven University. Currently, she is also serving as a research intern at KBR- Royal Library of Belgium’s Digital Research Lab.