Scientific Committe

The Scientific Committee of ESU DH is responsible for the accademic content and programme of the Summer University. Together with the workshop leaders it reviews the applications of potential participants and decides on their admission to a specific workshop. It evaluates furthermore the projects handed in for (Poster) presentation and decides on their admission. This year's committee is composed of the following specialists in Digital Humanities:

• Alex Bia, Professor for Statistics, Mathematics, and Computer Science, University Miguel Hernández, Elche (Spain)
• Peter Bell, Junior Professor of Digital Humanities & Art History, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (Germany)
• Manuel Burghardt, Junior Professor of Computational Humanities, Institut for Computer Science, University of Leipzig (Germany)
• Elisabeth Burr, Professor for French, Francophone and Italian Linguistics, University of Leipzig (Germany)
• Lisa Dieckmann, Director of prometheus, Institute for Art History, University of Cologne (Germany)
• Frank Fischer, Associate Professor for Digital Humanities, Higher School of Economics, Moskow (Russia)
• Gimena del Rio Riande, Researcher at the Instituto de Investigaciones Bibliográficas y Crítica Textual of the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), Buenos Aires and Professor at the University of Buenos Aires (Argentina)
• Christof Schöch, Professor for Digital Humanities and Co-Director of the Trier Center for Digital Humanities, University of Trier (Germany)
• Ray Siemens, Distinguished Professor, Canada Research Chair in Humanities Computing (2004-15), University of Victoria (Canada)
• Heike Zinsmeister, Professor of German Linguistics / Corpus Linguistics at the University of Hamburg (Germany)