The research team

Anna Foka is the Director of the Centre for Digital Humanities at Uppsala University, and Associate Professor in Digital Humanities at the Department for Archives, Museums and Libraries (ABM). Anna's research outputs to-date focus on digital cultural heritage, heritage data and information science more generally, its classification, representation and supporting methods, tools, and infrastructures. Anna's humanities' expertise lies in the history and culture of the ancient world as well as its international reception.

O. Cenk Demiroglu is an associate professor at Umeå University Department of Geography and affiliated with the Arctic Research Centre (ARCUM) and Humlab. His research is mainly focused on the interrelationships of climate change and ski tourism. Besides, he has served as an expert to several destination development projects and teaches tourism and geographical information systems related courses at the basic and advanced levels. Since 2018, he has been appointed as the Co-chair of the Commission on Climate, Tourism and Recreation of the International Society of Biometeorology.

Kyriaki Konstantinidou is a Research Assistant in the project “Digital Periegesis”, Uppsala University, Sweden and teaches ancient Greek theatre for the Hellenic Open University. She has studied Classics at Nottingham, UK (PhD 2009), Cambridge, UK (MPhil 2003) and Thessaloniki, Greece (BA 2000), and held research positions at Umeå University (Sweden) and Freie Universität Berlin (Germany). From 2010-2016 she was an Onassis Foundation Fellow at Boğaziçi University (Istanbul, Turkey). Using ancient Greek literary sources especially drama, her research interests focus on aspects of human and divine justice, space and identity, acts of violence, the emotions, and speech acts (e.g. oaths and curses). As a research student in the project “the Oath in Archaic and Classical Greece” (University of Nottingham, UK), she gained experience in applying digital tools and methods for data analysis. She has also used various digital applications for teaching at the Hellenic Open University and The Open University of Cyprus.

Nasrin Mostofian is a computational linguist (MA, 2017, Uppsala University) and a linguist with a background in teaching Persian as a second language (MA, 2013, Shahid Beheshti University). She studied Ancient Greek language in Tehran (2013) and modern Greek language and culture in the University of Ioannina in Greece under the IKY programme (2014-2015). Since her graduation from Uppsala University in 2017, she has been involved in computational linguistic projects in Sweden and abroad. She is currently affiliated as an associate researcher in the research project "the Digital Periegesis" at Uppsala University. She is based in Uppsala, Sweden and spends her free time learning and teaching languages and running.

David is a Computer Scientist and Software Engineer and a Senior Lecturer in the School of Electrical Engineering, Computing and Mathematical Sciences at Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia. David's research interests have been in delivering spatial information in real time, generating new knowledge from existing information. This lead to his involvement in the application of Semantic Web technologies and Linked Open Data into the digital humanities. David is one of the authors on the paper "Knowledge on-demand: a function of the future spatial knowledge infrastructure" which looks to evolve the concept of Spatial Data Infrastructures into a spatial knowledge infrastructure. He is currently working with his PhD students on mixed realities in virtual heritage as well as geospatial semantic annotation of 3D cultural heritage data. When not engaged in this kind of work, David likes to explore the physics of particle movement within in water leading to a forward generated velocity (also known as surfing). He also enjoys searching out great coffee throughout the world.