Digital Forum Advisory Board

Name: Professor Irene Zwiep
Position: Professor in Hebrew and Jewish Studies at the University of Amsterdam
Specialisations: Jewish intellectual history, history of Jewish linguistic thought
Websitehttps://www.uva.nl/profiel/z/w/i.e.zwiep/i.e.zwiep.html
Email: i.e.zwiep@uva.nl

Name: Dr. Gerben Zaagsma
Position(s): Assistant Professor & Head of Research Area Digital History & Historiography at the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH)
Specialisations: modern Jewish history, digital history, public history
Website: https://www.c2dh.uni.lu/ (personal: http://gerbenzaagsma.org/)
Email: gerben.zaagsma@uni.lu

Name: Dr Ortal-Paz SAAR
Position: Assistant Professor in Ancient History at the Department of History and Art History, Utrecht University, Netherlands
Specialisations: Late Antique and Medieval Jewish epigraphy
Website: https://www.uu.nl/staff/OPSaar
Email: o.p.saar@uu.nl

Name: Dr. Sebastian Musch
Position: Researcher (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter), Department of History, Osnabrück University.
Specialisations: German-Jewish History, History of Jewish Migration, Jewish-Buddhist Studies
Website: https://www.geschichte.uni-osnabrueck.de/musch_sebastian/profil.html
Email: sebastian.musch@mail.com 

Name: Dr. Avi Shmidman
Position: Senior Lecturer, Bar-Ilan University; Senior Researcher, DICTA: The Israel Center for Text Analysis
Specialisations: Liturgy, text analysis and NLP for Hebrew texts
Website: https://biu.academia.edu/AviShmidman ; https://dicta.org.il/
Email: avi.shmidman@biu.ac.il

Name: Dr Tamás Biró
Position: Associate Professor, Jewish Theological Seminary – University of Jewish Studies, Budapest; Senior Research Fellow, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest
Specialisations: computational phonology, cognitive approaches to Judaism, neolog Judaism in Hungary
Website: http://birot.web.elte.hu/
Email: tbiro@or-zse.hu ; tamas.biro@btk.elte.hu

Name: Dr Maria Fragkou
Position: Special Investigator, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Specialisations:European History, Digital History, Jewish History
Email: m.fragkou@hotmail.com

Name: Dr Laura Brazzo
Position: Head of Historical Archives, Fondazione Centro di Documentazione Ebraica Contemporanea, Milan
Specialisations: Digital Archives, LOD (Linked Open Data), Holocaust history
Website: http://digital-library.cdec.it/
Email: laurabrazzo@cdec.it

Name: Dr Gabor Kadar
Position: Director, Yerusha Project, Rothschild Foundation Hanadiv Europe
Specialisations: historical digital data aggregation, large-scale project management, Hungarian Jewish history, history of the Holocaust
Website: www.rothschildfoundation.eu
Email: g.kadar@rothschildfoundation.eu

Name: Dr Tomasz M. Jankowski
Position: Post-doctoral researcher at Vilnius University
Specialisations: data management, data science, Jewish social history
Website: http://tomaszmjankowski.eu
Email: tomasz.jankowski@if.vu.lt