Julianne Nyhan is a historian and Digital Humanities scholar whose research examines the intersections of technology, history, memory, human labour and heritage. Her research programme brings historical and critical humanities approaches into dialogue with computational methods, data and AI, with particular emphasis on digital and oral history, memory, histories of computing, archives and collections, and the sociotechnical infrastructures and human labour through which knowledge is produced.

After more than a decade at UCL, where she became Professor of Digital Humanities and Director of the UCL Centre for Digital Humanities, in 2022 Nyhan was appointed to the W3 Chair of Humanities Data Science and Methodology at TU Darmstadt. The German chair model combines professorial research and teaching with responsibility for developing and leading a defined academic field, its research programme and associated group. The appointment therefore opened a different phase of her career, with greater structural autonomy to develop a research programme at the intersection of humanities scholarship, data and computation.

Nyhan remains at UCL as Professor Emerita of Digital Humanities. Her research is consequently transnational, operating across British and continental European research environments, technical infrastructures and memory cultures. Her continuing intellectual connections with UCL and London, alongside the structural possibilities of the German chair, support collaborations and research that move between these different scholarly and institutional contexts.

Her current research increasingly brings these strands together through work on AI mediated and multimodal oral history and the emerging concept of algorithmic memory. This work asks what happens when computational systems move beyond representing and analysing historical knowledge and begin to participate in its interpretation, reconstruction and remembrance.