I am a historian and Digital Humanities scholar who conducts interdisciplinary research at the intersections of technology, history, memory and heritage. I study the processes through which computational systems mediate and transform our encounters with the past: how historical sources become data; how knowledge is formalised, organised, represented or made invisible by computational systems; and how sociotechnical infrastructures and often-hidden human labour shape what is known and remembered.

My research brings together oral history, histories of computing, archives and collections, and critical approaches to data and AI. My current work focuses on AI-mediated and multimodal oral history, including the changing relationship between algorithmic and human memory.

I am Professor (W3) and Chair of Humanities Data Science and Methodology at TU Darmstadt, Germany and Professor Emerita of Digital Humanities at UCL (University College London), UK. My research is transnational, operating across British and continental European research environments, technical infrastructures and memory cultures.

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